How is COVID 19 affecting the Tech Industry in Turkey?
COVID 19 is seen as a curse as it has affected each and every industry globally but the tech industry in Turkey sees this pandemic as a blessing. Due to the pandemic now every other regular activity in our day to day lives needs a digital transformation and this need is creating many opportunities for the technology industry to flourish in Turkey.
Recently, in August 2020, Turkey opened a giant tech center that consists of 40 factories which will create 4,600 jobs, which is why this important move can be seen as Turkey’s Fourth Industrial Revolution. The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was present at the opening ceremony of this large tech complex and he said that they “are determined to make Turkey the center of three continents, a global production, and technology base,” he added, “we have already laid the groundwork for this with the steps we have taken over the past 18 years” (Daily Sabah, 2020). So we can see that this development was in works for almost past two decades, and even a pandemic could not delay its opening, as fig.2 illustrates that the Turkish President and his staff of Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries’ (MESS) Technology Center are sitting together wearing face masks in Istanbul at the opening ceremony of this giant tech complex.
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