Turkish-Egyptian Abdullah Habib, with his love for Turkey, which he considers semi-homeland, has prepared a digital encyclopedia to create an accurate source of information about our country. Turkey’s first digital encyclopedia ‘Turkpidya’, with a capacity of more than 2 million words and a choice of 14 languages, is now available.
About his project, Habib said, “Some of our relatives participated in the War of Independence and many of them had to migrate to Egypt. That’s why we consider Turkey a semi-homeland. I’ve been living in Turkey for the last 4 years and I hope to get citizenship.”
The goal is to create the right source of information:
Habib, who came to Turkey as a student at the age of 20 and has lived here for 4 years, spent his childhood listening to his Turkish ancestors from his elders. When he encountered many false information in his research on Turkey, he dreamed of creating a true source of information about Turkey. He founded Turkpidya, a digital encyclopedia, in order to present original and accurate sources about Turkey with new media technologies.
Content is produced in 5 categories: economy, culture, city, history and tourism. The two-person team that prepared Turkpidya grew rapidly and reached 15 authors. The digital encyclopedia, which has a translation option in 14 languages and has a vocabulary of 2 million, attracted attention from all over the world. Abdullah Habib stated that they have reached nearly 200 countries, especially the Balkan, Caucasian, USA and Arab countries.
Habib said that as the Turkpidya team, they plan to add 46 more languages to the digital encyclopedia with many new content. He stated that he is very happy and proud to be the founder of a platform that delivers accurate information about Turkey to the world.
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