Few people seemed less likely to become an international gaming entrepreneur than Mehmet Ecevit.
Ecevit grew up as a shepherd in a small Anatolian village. He taught himself computer programming, and eventually started his own company in Istanbul building computer games on a shoestring.
But today, the 32-year old’s 1010 game earns $250,000 per day, and is one of the most popular mobile phone games in the world. More than five million people have installed it on their smartphones via Google Play alone.
Ecevit’s two-year-old company Gram Games is only one of a large number of recent Turkish startups that are prospering in difficult economic times.
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