A pro-government Turkish newspaper has reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will code a simple computer game or program to encourage young software developers, the Turkish Hurriyet website reports.
According to the report, from the paper Sabah, Erdoğan “prepared an important plan for Turkey to leap forward in the IT sector.”
The Turkish president’s “three-step project” aims to bring up “world-class IT experts, programmers and software developers” by taking inspiration from Scandinavian countries, especially Estonia.
“It is detected that students use [technological] means on social media and games,” the paper reports, adding that the president’s program aims to divert this energy into coding instead.
Erdoğan “will first gather bright brains, who accomplished significant work in software, e-entrepreneurship and IT, around the presidential dining table,” Hurriyet quotes the Sabah report. Then he “will call on the business world to invest in software and programs.”
In the third and the final step of the project, Sabah reports, “Erdoğan will write a simple game or a program command with students at these festivals, which will encourage them.”
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets members of parliament as he arrives for a swearing-in ceremony at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2015. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)
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