Ali Taha Koç, Head of the Presidential Digital Transformation Office Increasing its popularity in 2021 NFT shared about the industry.
Ankara University, Turkey’s first NFT Ali Taha Koç, announcing that the classes have started, talked about NFTs here.
Stating that Turkey has projects related to blockchain technology, Koç emphasized the importance of blockchain technology by saying, “It is not possible to understand NFTs without understanding blockchain.”
In this context, he added that they will work to raise awareness in the fields of blockchain and NFT in Turkey.
“NFTs sometimes appear as a picture, a sound and sometimes a tweet. Anything you want to be digital and one-of-a-kind can be an NFT.
Our efforts to understand NFT in Turkey will be very productive.”
Noting that NFTs are bought and sold with cryptocurrencies, Ali Taha Koç reminded that the world’s most expensive NFT was sold for 42,329 Ethereum.
Koç stated that there is a lot to be done in the field of NFT and said:
“It is necessary not to think of NFTs as just a technology. Topics such as how NFTs will primarily be used in our daily lives, in which business models they will be used, and the legal dimension of NFTs are of great importance.”
In his speech on NFT, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Elon Musk Talking about giving NFT gifts, Koç used the following statements:
“There is no one who does not know Elon Musk. When our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, we gave Elon Musk an NFT as a gift.
The NFT we gifted is very important to us. This picture was a collage. We asked the children to make a digital painting describing space and we made a digital exhibition with these paintings. Then we took the digital pictures from the Kids and made them collages and turned them into NFTs.”
Koç recently explained that a photo taken during the NFT lesson was converted into an NFT.
President of the Presidency Digital Transformation Office, Ali Taha Koç, shared a post on NFTs on his Twitter account after his speech.
Ali Taha Koç said that NFTs are constantly mentioned in his post, but for now, the word NFT does not have a clear Turkish equivalent and he is waiting for suggestions on what the Turkish equivalent of NFT should be.
for a long time #NFTWe are talking about, but for now, there is no clear Turkish equivalent. I just asked this question to the students of Turkey’s first NFT course: What do you think the Turkish equivalent of NFT should be?🤔
I’m waiting for your suggestions as comments.— Ali Taha Koç (@AliTahaKoc) February 18, 2022