Turkish Prime Minister Visits Apple Ahead of Major Tablet Purchase
MacRumors.com
Sunday May 19, 2013 1:13 pm PDT by Eric Slivka
Anatolia News Agency reports that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip
Erdo#an visited Apple yesterday as part of a tour of Silicon Valley
companies ahead of the country’s move to purchase 10.6 million tablets
for its schoolchildren. Erdo#an also visited Microsoft’s Bay Area
outpost and Google during his trip.
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdo#an (left) visits Apple
The meeting at Apple was just the latest of numerous interactions
between Apple executives and Turkish government officials as Apple
seeks to win the massive tablet contract. A number of Apple executives
including vice president for education John Couch traveled to Turkey
back in February to meet with Turkish president Abdullah Gul, while
Gul had visited Apple in May 2012.
Ahead of the education tablet bid, Apple is in the midst of a
significant push into the Turkish market, having launched the iTunes
Store for music and movies there last December and begun hiring for
future retail stores in the country.