Eric Schmidt, the chairman of the executive board of one of the giants of the Internet search engines, Google arrived in Turkey yesterday.
Schmidt who met in Istanbul former Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım and the editors in chief of major newspapers broached the issue of the Internet filter due to be implemented in Turkey as of August 22.
Schmidt will proceed to Ankara where he will be received by President Abdullah Gul.
The Internet filter set to come into effect in Turkey in two months’ time and the yet-unconcluded tax issue are expected to be the subjects the two are to concentrate on.
Operational in Turkey via its advertisement arnd marketing office, Google has some problems with the Finance Ministry over taxing.
Getting advertisements from Turkish companies but rejecting to be a tax-payer in Turkey, Google has been fined 71 million TL, though it has made good use of a recently introduced legislation and lowered its debt to 35 million liras, which it is going to repay in 18 installments.
via News.Az – Google boss visits Turkey.