Murat Aktihanoglu

Murat Aktihanoglu
Nationality American
Alma mater Bilkent University
Occupation Venture Capitalist
Employer Managing Partner at Entrepreneur's Roundtable Accelerator
Known for Gezi Protests

Murat Aktihanoglu is a NY-based venture capitalist[1] who is notable for helping create the fastest political crowdfunding campaign[2] in history[3] for Turkish Gezi Protests. Aktihanoglu helped create a crowdsourced and crowdfunded advertisement in the New York Times with Oltac Unsal and Duygu Atacan.[4] 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.[5]

New York Times Ad "What's Happening in Turkey"

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