Turkey is at the heart of a digital transformation that can benefit investors, a senior executive of Microsoft in the country said.
Murat Kansu, the tech company’s general manager, told Anadolu Agency that small start-ups in Turkey were producing innovative ideas.
“Turkey is at the center of a digital transformation,” he said in New York, where a delegation from the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey is visiting. “It has solutions that can be examples for the world. With foreign investment, these can be expanded even more.”
Foreign investment would help Turkish start-ups “turn their ideas into reality,” Kansu said. Microsoft provides free software and technical support to 1,500 such companies in Turkey.
He added: “Some foreign investors have a wrong impression of Turkey. We told them there can be short-term changes in the country, like in any other developing market. However, we showed them that Turkey is an ever-growing country that benefits investors. We asked them to trust in Turkey's potential.”
Turkey has made a number of changes to the law in recent years to provide incentives to foreign investors.