{"id":44478,"date":"2011-09-28T21:26:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=44478"},"modified":"2023-04-07T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:36:33","slug":"kasparov-speaks-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/09\/28\/kasparov-speaks-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasparov speaks in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44480\" title=\"Garry Kasparov\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Garry-Kasparov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Garry-Kasparov.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Garry-Kasparov-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>World-famous chess master Garry Kasparov, in his address at the SAP Forum 2011 in \u0130stanbul, spoke about the great potential for technological development in booming countries like Turkey and in the mobilization of activists during the \u201cArab Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being in \u0130stanbul for the enterprise application software provider SAP\u2019s largest event in the European, Middle Eastern and African regions, Kasparov said he was reminded of his trip to Turkey long ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important to see the improvement of this growing city that is full of energy and this country that is full of dynamism. It is now being said that Turkey could join the European Union in 2015. But will there be an EU in 2015?\u201d Kasparov said.<\/p>\n<p>Kasparov drew a parallel between the complexities and decision-making power of the game of chess and computers. The world-renowned chess player also drew attention to the use of social media and the Internet in the overthrow of dictator regimes in the Middle East. Thanks to the Internet and social media, Kasparov said that millions of people were able to share information and mobilize rapidly in the \u201cArab Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the slowing down of progress to protect the status quo, Kasparov said: \u201cCountries like Turkey have great potential. You are lucky. You don\u2019t have natural resources, you don\u2019t have oil. Nothing comes from your maintaining the status quo. Technology can play a very large role in the development of your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<p>via Kasparov speaks in Turkey | Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-famous chess master Garry Kasparov, in his address at the SAP Forum 2011 in \u0130stanbul, spoke about the great potential for technological development in booming countries like Turkey and in the mobilization of activists during the \u201cArab Spring.\u201d Being in \u0130stanbul for the enterprise application software provider SAP\u2019s largest event in the European, Middle Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":44480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845,3996],"tags":[5983,4655,6957],"class_list":["post-44478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scitech","category-sport","tag-arab-spring","tag-chess","tag-kasparov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}