Istanbul Mayor Candidate Murat Kurum took an important step to strengthen the city’s entrepreneurship and innovation potential and visited Co-Founder.Work, a co-working space founded by Hakkı Alkan.
The purpose of the visit was to emphasize the need to support entrepreneurship and innovation and to draw attention to initiatives in this field. Murat Kurum stated the importance of the support to be given to entrepreneurs and said:
“When we turn Istanbul into this center, it will contribute to the growth of our country. Together, we will have made an investment that will have a say in the world. That’s why we will give both our youth and women the opportunity to start this business. “We will also provide office opportunities to 100 thousand young people where they can start their businesses.”
The institution emphasized that, as a municipality, they will increase services and supports for entrepreneurs and startups, and will also develop policies to increase the number and quality of co-working spaces.
Special visit to Co-Founder.Work from Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Presidential Candidate Murat Kurum
During the visit, eGaranti’s Founding Partner Sinan Peksoy explained how they made a difference with their technology and innovation-based projects and how these projects contributed to the ecosystem. Peksoy said, “Our aim is to achieve sustainable success with strong and innovative ideas and to make Turkey’s entrepreneurship ecosystem more competitive internationally.”
Murat Kurum’s visit revealed Istanbul’s high potential in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation and reinforced the city’s commitment to its development in this field. This support given to entrepreneurship and co-working spaces is seen as an important step towards making Istanbul an international innovation and entrepreneurship center.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, under the leadership of Murat Kurum, aims to make significant contributions to the socioeconomic development of Istanbul with its policies that encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. Strengthening the city’s entrepreneurial ecosystem will create new opportunities for both the local economy and local enterprises that can compete in the global arena.
This visit of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayoral Candidate Murat Kurum to the Co-Founder.Work co-working space stands out as a concrete indicator of the support to be provided to the city’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. One-on-one interviews with entrepreneurs in this field emphasized Murat Kurum’s determination to increase the support provided to entrepreneurs and startups in order to accelerate the economic development of Istanbul and turn it into a global innovation center.