Turkey’s wind energy potential is 90.000 MW, while İzmir has the highest installed capacity Hakan Yıldırm, Chairman of Turkey Wind Energy Association (TÜREB), said current total installed wind power capacity was 8.000 megawatts (MW) but potential up tp 90.000 MW. The wind power technology is […]
Month: July 2020
Shopping and package forwarding service Yollando raised second funding with TL10 million valuation
Startup aims to become the leading package forwarding service in the region by reaching TL1 billion shopping with the new investment The shopping and package forwarding service Yollando completed its second investment round with a valuation of 10 Million TL and investment of 2.2 Million […]
PTT should become e-commerce platform in the region: minister
Minister said ePttAVM.com will become one of the top five e-commerce platforms in the region Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, said state-run postal service PTT to become one of the top e-commerce power players in the region. Adil Karaismailoğlu told the government has stepped […]
Passenger aircraft flies for e-export during COVID-19: Modanisa
Modanisa one of the first e-commerce companies starting e-exports in days of pandemic The COVID-19 did not interrupt sales of Turkish modest apparel and e-commerce site, Modanisa, which amid high demand even used commercial aircraft to continue exporting to 130 countries, according to Daily Sabah. […]
London, Ankara make progress in trade deal talks: minister
Any Turkey-U.K. free trade deal would only be able to take place following an EU-U.K. free trade deal U.K.’s Secretary of State of International Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss said progress has been made in ongoing talks on a trade deal […]
Turkey’s GDP per capita index went down in 2019
Among 37 countries involved in the comparison, Luxembourg was the country with the highest index of GDP per capita with 261 Turkey’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita index based on purchasing power parity (PPP) was 61 while the average for the EU countries was […]
Engineers start to work at Turkey’s first nuclear plant after trainings in Russia
Trainings lasted 6 years and more than 140 engineers to start work at the nuclear plant Turkey’s first nuclear power plant’s new Turkish staff members, who were trained in Russia for more than 6 years, have said that “zero-defect policy” was at the heart of the challenging […]
Türk Telekom to use Yuan for trade with China
Using yuan to remove the obstacles for using local currencies in bilateral trade Turkish telecommunications company Türk Telekom took the first step to trade in local currencies through a new mechanism provided by Turkey and China’s new swap agreement on June 19, Hürriyet Daily News reported. The […]
EU offers €4.4 mln grant for Turkish tech projects
11 companies from various industries to be backed The EU Commission backs several Turkish firms’ tech-related projects, announced the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) last week, according to Hürriyet Daily News’s story The commission to grant a total of €4.4 million ($4.94 million) to Turkish companies […]
Introducing Turkish tech journalists: Melih Bayram Dede
His first article published in a print magazine 1989 and he started his website in 2012. Here’s Melih Bayram Dede’s story Melih Bayram Dede is one of the veteran tech journalists. Having witnessed the digitalization in Turkish media, his first contact with computers was […]