Update April 2000: Turkey

Some changes took place in some key positions in this period. The chairman of the board of the Turkish Informatics Association has resigned and Inci Pekgulec Apaydin was elected as the new chairperson of the board. The general manager of Intel Turkey took a position in Intel USA as the assistant of the Vice President responsible for Global Sales and Marketing.

A new company, called HIBAS, was established by Interpro, the organiser of the yearly IT event Bilisim series of fairs and conferences, and Hannover Messe, the organiser of CeBIT, to jointly organise the Bilisim series starting with the year 2000 event. Bilisim series of fairs and conferences is the biggest yearly IT event in Turkey, attracting over 100 thousands fair visitors and over 500 conference participants. Turkish Informatics Association (TBD), Turkish Informatics foundation (TBV) and Association of Informatics Industrialists of Turkey (TUBISAD) are the other partners of the Bilisim series.

The Open Systems Association TRUUG transformed itself into the Internet Association (INETD-TR for short). Internet is a hot topic in the country and an association was needed in this area. The Open Systems Association, on the other hand, gradually became active in this area recently. The new association INETD-TR started organising Internet days. INETD-TR is lead by Prof. Mustafa Akgul from Bilkent University, who is a leading name in Internet in Turkey.