As the chairman of Turkey's Information Technologies and Communication Board, Tayfun Acarer, said on 5 December 2009, Turkish engineers are working on developing a national Internet search engine destined to be launched in 2010.

So far all major search engines used worldwide were based in foreign countries, which according to Tayfun Acarer, was a risk for communication, as they could not meet Turkey's needs and sometimes did not comply with the country's sensitivities. Problems occured also because Turkish letters do not exist in the English alphabet.

Tayfun Acarer seemed confident that Turkic and Muslim countries will trust the national search engine.

In the context of the search engine project, a different project, the 'Anaposta', was also initiated aiming to provide 70 million citizens with an email address with a quota of 10 gigabytes. "Every child will have an email address written on his/her identity card since birth. So, will have a mobile network that can be used thanks to id number match and foreign networks that, will not be used anymore. The software infrastructure of the project has been completed and it is now being tested", he stated.

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• Original source -  Anadolu Agency, General Directorate Website