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Nationality
  
American

Alma mater
  
Name
  
Murat Aktihanoglu

Known for
  
Gezi Protests

Occupation
  
Venture Capitalist


Murat Aktihanoglu

Employer
  
Managing Partner at Entrepreneur's Roundtable Accelerator

Murat Aktihanoglu is an American venture capitalist who is notable for helping create the fastest political crowdfunding campaign in history for Turkish Gezi Protests. Aktihanoglu helped create a crowdsourced and crowdfunded advertisement in the New York Times with Oltac Unsal and Duygu Atacan. It was the fastest political crowdfunding campaign in history. The ad featured demands for "an end to police brutality"; "a free and unbiased media"; and "an open dialogue, not the dictate of an autocrat." The editing of the final advertisement involved thousands of people, and the ad was published on 7 June 2013.

Despite its financing by 2,654 online funders, Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and his administration blamed a domestic and foreign "interest rate lobby" and The New York Times for the ad.

References

Murat Aktihanoglu Wikipedia


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