fatihdonmez

They can complain whatever they want to but here are the facts. Turks brutally were murdered almost 70-80 years to turned to be a muslim and start believing arab god to survive. Turks adopted all the arabic culture/traditions as part of islam. Turks used arabic alphabet along with the bunch of arabic words. Even nowadays current government is pushing more islamic/arabic values to turkish people as part of islamization process.

Of course it worked, now we can easily understand other turkic people from Kygrzystan, Uzbekistan, Uyghur, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan. It’s one of the most important and critical reform, Ataturk did.

I'm turkish and because of hidden arabic imperialism and assimilation rooted deep in islam, I refuse to use even arabic words which are common in turkish.

there's also opportunity cost which you're missing. Average VC can invest limited number of startups. Instead of buffer They could invest some other startup which eventually exit with 100x

I'm interested actually as an engineer who do some side gigs and lives in Bangkok currently. Where is this shared office and how much do you pay for it?

It's same like Reichstag fire. Now Erdogan is more powerful to change constitution with presidential system.

ps: I'm turkish

China is definitely way better than Japan. Maybe imitation of all western products year over year could help them to have more western way of working style and etc but still culture is workaholic, robot like obeying, not criticising at all.

Then you should see the japanese way of working, it's also quite fun! I believe this is common in most of asia. I have worked in China and it's not quite different at all from what you're saying.

Despite the what effort? It was obvious this is coming. Turkish financial system has lots of regulations after 2001 economic crisis. Paypal should get the banking licence to operate. This includes physical servers located in Turkey, accessing data by authorities, taxing on transaction and etc.

Paypal didn't apply any of these items. Maybe Turkish market is not big enough for them to invest on these regulations.

I have started a fintech startup in Turkey (similar to Stripe) but before we launch, regulation changed and to run a payment gateway, you should have at least 5M TRY invested in the business. So yes regulation exists and bad for startups and small businesses but for business like Paypal it's not about "effort".