Murat Aktihanoglu | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Bilkent University |
| Occupation | Venture Capitalist |
| Employer | Managing Partner at Entrepreneur's Roundtable Accelerator |
| Known for | Gezi Protests |
Murat Aktihanoglu is an American venture capitalist[1] who is notable for helping create the fastest political crowdfunding campaign[2] in history[3] for Turkish Gezi Protests. Aktihanoglu helped create a crowdsourced and crowdfunded advertisement in the New York Times with Oltac Unsal and Duygu Atacan.[4] It was the fastest political crowdfunding campaign in history. The ad featured demands for "an end to police brutality"; "a free and unbiased media"; and "an open dialogue, not the dictate of an autocrat." The editing of the final advertisement involved thousands of people, and the ad was published on 7 June 2013.
Despite its financing by 2,654 online funders, Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and his administration blamed a domestic and foreign "interest rate lobby" and The New York Times for the ad.[5]
