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These will also be able to benefit from administrative support, advisers, workshops and help in establishing ties with private investors.

Spending a day in southern Antalya was enough to understand the startup environment in Turkey.

Startup Turkey, supported by Istanbul Technical University, in Antalya is one of the biggest internet meetings in this geography.

Economy, Development and Tourism Minister George Stathakis will soon announce four new programs funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), the Secretary General of Public Investments and NSRF Panagiotis Korkolis said on Wednesday in an interview with Praktorio 104.9 FM.

A number of features such as a financially friendly environment, already flowing investment highly-skilled people are among the factors behind Bulgaria's boomign startup scene as seen in 2015, Inventures magazine says in an article about the counry's emerging startup industry.

Investments in startups in Turkey this year have aimed more at high-tech companies with high-end products for business, experts have told Anadolu Agency.

"The Turkish startup scene is vibrant, but it is changing," said Serkan Ünsal, an entrepreneur and investor who runs the Turkish portal Startups.Watch. 

While discussing the Turkish startup scene with Galata Business Angels' General Manager Ay?e ?nal, I realized that there were not many successful "exits" out of Turkey. We could only count ten in the last 3 years that made it out of Turkey into the international market.

Last week I wrote about the security of the voting and vote counting processes in Turkey. Now that the voting is over and the Vote and Beyond platform verified the results, I can talk about a very nice initiative that I had to skip last week. 

No one is discussing the importance of startups any more. It is proved that startups can create more jobs than companies that are "too big to fail," even in regressing economies. That's why, throughout the world, leaders are promoting new ideas and encouraging people to fund their own companies. 

After I wrote about entrepreneurship recently, I had the opportunity to be able to speak to Ay?e ?nal about the topic. 

Inal is the general secretary of Galata Business Angels (GBA), the premier Angel Investment Network in Istanbul.

According to the information she provided, in the first half of 2015 in Turkey:
 
A total of 130 Startups were founded,

Under the project "Entrepreneurship - the chance of a better future for youth," offers EU funding for 40 startups and entrepreneurial training for 400 young people, president of the Travel Focus Romania Association Razvan Pascu said on Tuesday at the launch of the project.

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