clipped from: www.readwriteweb.com 
Turkey is next in this R/WW series
on top international Web apps. It's the 9th country I've profiled so far - the others
have been Germany,
Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain and China. For the following information on Turkey, I
have Emre Sokullu to thank (also Honor Gunday for info on his web apps). Emre is an open
source enthusiast from Istanbul, whose projects include GROU.PS, Turkix and SimpleKDE. He was over in Silicon Valley recently and not
only did he attend the TechCrunch party,
he also visited the Googleplex and ate
quasedillas "just 10 m. away from Sergey Brin"! But I digress...
Turkey is a nation of over 70M and straddles Europe and Asia. In terms of Web apps Emre said that Turkey, like Israel, has a number of growing web 2.0 companies - and "almost all of them are local clones of some proven [international] ideas". But he says that his own app, Grou.ps, "is an exception there." Interestingly, there are no exact Flickr and del.icio.us clones in Turkey. Emre thinks the reason is that photo sharing is not popular enough in his country and StumbleUpon (see below) is more than enough for link sharing/storing.
Amongst the international web apps, Gmail, Meebo, Blogger and StumbleUpon are very popular in Turkey.