Hurriyet-News- Turkish PM visits Silicon Valley

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Silicon Valley in San Francisco on May 18 for a tour of leading technology companies.

His first stop was Microsoft, where he was welcomed by CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer, who is in charge of the Turkish Education Ministry’s Fatih project, briefed the prime minister about the ongoing endeavor.


Erdoğan, meanwhile, said a bid related to the Fatih project would be held next week. “We wanted to see the latest developments in the information technology sector before we launched the Fatih bid by visiting the Silicon Valley because we plan to realize a similar project in Istanbul. Our first aim is to produce 10,600,000 tablets as part of the Fatih project, which will be followed by the production of 2 million to 2.5 million tablets.”

Later on, Erdoğan moved to Apple and Google, where he participated in a test drive of the company’s self-driving car along with his daughter Sümeyye Erdoğan and his party’s deputy parliamentary group chair, Ayşenur Bahçekapılı.

Google’s business development director, Seval Öz, the sister of Mehmet Öz, a well-known Turkish doctor in the United States, briefed Erdoğan on the self-driving car and smart eyeglasses.

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