What if Mark Zuckerberg joined the army in Turkey? Esen Çağlar / Commentary
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"If Mark Zuckerberg had not been born in New York but in Istanbul, he would now probably be brooding over when and how to fulfill his mandatory military service. In a previous commentary [1], I tried to portray how the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem is far from offering young people opportunities similar to those that Zuckerberg enjoyed in the US. I see now that I missed one important element: mandatory military service.
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You might ask about the correlation between military service and entrepreneurship, or creativity. I have no answer to that. How about this one though: If the Zuckerbergs of the world [2] lived in Turkey, how would they choose to fulfill their national service?..."
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