“Turkey is now the third largest country on Facebook according to ComScore (see illustrations). It’s a few million behind the UK, and with 75 million people in Turkey (26.5m of whom are online) it’s likely to become the second biggest behind the US fairly soon. How on earth did that happen? I’ve spoken to Facebook and people here in Istanbul and what emerged was the story of a campaign by early adopters in Turkey to get Facebook to release them the tools to translate it into Turkish. After that the site exploded in use. There was no local social networking clone with the same functionality, and the young popuation (over half of Turkey is under 30 years old) made Facebook look like the hip Western site to “be seen” on.” Ох, Яху, Яху... - × × ×