As a teen, Emirhan Gül was a keen gamer, so he was thrilled to join a gaming startup in Istanbul as a developer after university. Over five months, as Turkey...
Over 2.6 million Syrians live in Turkey as refugees, but for tech workers, it’s still a small world. In 2019, a group of refugees formed a nonprofit, Digital Istanbul, to...
Hasan Hüseyin Yavuz sat in an unpaved parking lot among protest posters, trying to draw attention to the human toll of trending TikToks. Across the street from his former employer...
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...
Turkey’s sophisticated translators are moonlighting as trainers of artificial intelligence models, even as their profession shrinks with the rise of machine translations. As the models improve, these training jobs, too,...
In a popular video on her TikTok account, Şule Kayatürk, a Turkish influencer and beauty store owner, promises to hand out gold to employees who repent for their sins and...
When Ayşe Yılmaz discovered the Zikirmatik Pro app during Ramadan last year, she said she appreciated the discipline and calm that it brought to her day. The app reminded her...
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