Turkey’s brain drain is taking its female coders with it Rest of World By: Kaya Genç 27 March 2025 at 05:00 In the summer of 2013, Gülçin Yildirim, a database administrator, received an invitation for a meeting at an Istanbul chocolate shop with 11 other female coders. They were there to... © Nicole Tung for Rest of WorldA student at a game design lab at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey.