Turkish appearances on TechCrunch: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

In this blog post, I decided to make a compilation of appearances of Turkish startups and notable Internet-related events in Turkish market written in TechCrunch. They are limited to occurrences that directly came out directly from Turkey rather than US-located startups with Turkish co-founders. I am pretty sure this list will grow up in 2012 and so on, perhaps including us.*

The Good

• Looking To Dominate Social Gaming In Emerging Markets, Peak Games Gobbles Up Another Studio (2012)

• Amazon invests in Turkish e-commerce startup Ciceksepeti (2011)

• Turkish Private Shopping Site Trendyol Scores A Big Round From KPCB, Tiger Global (2011)

• eBay acquires Turkish marketplace GittiGidiyor(2011)

• How Facebook And FriendFeed Became Turkish Delights (2010)

  • Put.io Is An Interesting New Cloud Storage Service (2009)

  • 200 Invites to put.io (2009)

  • Turkish social network Yonja raises $12.5m (2008)

  • Xing Acquires Turkish Networking Site Cember.net (2008)

TechCrunch Europe:

• Naspers values Turkish ecommerce giant markafoni at $200 million, buys 70% stake (2011)

• Turkish private shopping club Markafoni raises £4.7 million (2011)

• Euro RSCG Worldwide acquires Turkish digital agency **Project House **(2010)

• Turkey: The land that embraced Facebook, FriendFeed and startups (2010)

• Put.io is an innovative new cloud storage service (2009)

• Turkey’s Markafoni aims at a global play (2009)

• Turkish Etsy clone Pasaj.com builds its reach at home (2009)

• Turkey’s AkAkce now ‘scrobbling’ print competitors for price comparison (2009)

The Bad & The Ugly

• Flirty Turkish Users Propel Social Network Interconnections (2011)

• After YouTube, Turkey moves to ban video sharing site Vimeo (2010)

• Russia, Turkey Top List Of Riskiest Places To Surf The Web (2010)

• Web Censorship Is So Bad in Turkey That Blogs Are Shutting Themselves Down In Protest (2010)

• Turkey not banning all Google services, simply clumsily trying to block YouTube (2010, TC EU)

• Google services blocked or slowed to a crawl by Turkish government (2010, TC EU)

• Turkish government claims Google owes €32 million in taxes (2009, TC EU)

• Turkey Says “No More YouTube” (2007)

  • YouTube folds, Turkey lifts ban (2007)

I’ll try to keep this list up to date as much as I can. Let me know if I’m missing something.

• still is not measurement of anything, though.