To Alper Öktem: Are you an entrepreneur or a civil servant?

In recent years, many software and start-up models that have made us proud have also started to emerge from Turkish entrepreneurs. Initiatives such as Yemeksepeti, Peak Games, WeWalk and most recently Martı Scooter made a name for themselves. But there is one among them that has never fallen off the agenda. He’s a seagull. It has been the subject of much debate with its price, use, and punishments. Today, its CEO has been on the agenda like a bomb. He became the topic of the day with his statements and determinations.

Martı’s CEO, Alper Öktem, participated in a program broadcast on YouTube and talked about the events that Martı had experienced recently. As I wrote in my previous article, this is the biggest strategy of Martı. They are not under anything. Alper Öktem, the CEO of Martı, has once again found a social medium for himself. And he made surprising statements. For example, he said, “The state is to the head, the raven is to the carcass”. If we do not know that it was Mr. Öktem who coined this sentence, we would probably think that a politician or statesman created it. But like a scientist, an entrepreneur, who must have a contradiction, said this sentence. We couldn’t really understand.

These statements of these words garnered a lot of reaction. However, while getting a good salary in a reputable financial institution, Öktem, who returned to his country by throwing everything away and founded Martı, turned into a civil servant in Turkey for some reason. No, we would think that if we did not know, you completed a 4-year university in 3 years, if we did not know, you were afraid that you would be unemployed if we did not know that you completed a master’s degree in one of the best economics universities in the world. Don’t be afraid. The things you have to defend are the things that are against the state, but the things that are the necessities of this century. Defend your company by telling the truth, not by the logic of “our neck is thinner than a hair in front of the state”.

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