Erdogan calls on US investors to step up operations in Turkey

- During his visit to Washington, the Turkish President met with representatives of major companies operating in the fields of defense, aeronautics, chemistry, health and computer science.

The President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called on US investors to step up their activities in his country.

The Investment, Support and Presentation Agency to the Prime Ministry announced on Wednesday that the Head of State met with representatives of companies active in the fields of defense, aeronautics , Chemistry, health, computer science and production, during his visit to Washington.

Erdogan discussed the investment climate in Turkey and the opportunities with senior executives of the Abraaj Group, Cargill, CDPQ, Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) GE Aviation, Glaxo Smith Kline, Lockheed Martin, PepsiCo, Raytheon Intenational, and Uber.

"Erdogan informed the participants about the situation regarding the investment climate in Turkey as well as the economic agenda of his country, while calling on these companies to step up their investments in Turkey,

The chairman of TYDTA, Arda Ermut said in the statement: "The meeting demonstrated Turkey's support for foreign investors. Investors have been very interested in our country and our president. This is mainly because of the support the President gives them. "

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Turkish government bans Wikipedia site

In recent years , the Turkish government issued several strict laws govern the use of a range of services major websites and private social networks and some sensitive sites like Wikileaks.

Yesterday was off the site Wikipedia, the largest electronic encyclopedia, in whole Turkey , according to the decision of the country's government, and all language copied, joining China, and are the only among the countries of the world that trigger our access entirely services Wikipedia.

This has confirmed the agency 'Blox' to monitor the Internet, that the ban was starting at 5 am GMT , as the body of information technology and communication has stated that it will take all measures against escalating Wikipedia as permitted by Turkish laws.

The Turkish government attributed the reasons for this prohibition to reject Wikipedia delete some articles and comments that claim to cooperate with terrorist groups, and considered part of a plot to tarnish the image of the country in recent months.

On the other side chirp Jimmy Wales , founder of Wikipedia:

Access to information a fundamental human right, dear Turkish people, always stand by your side to fight for this right.

It is worth mentioning that the site can still face and through the VPN network.

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