Mustafa Akgül

Mustafa Akgül (10 May 1948 - 13 December 2017) was a Turkish computer scientist who was the key figure of the acceptance of the Internet in Turkey. In 1987, he moved to Bilkent University, where he remained until his death. He died on 13 December 2017 in the hospital where he had been receiving treatment for a long time.

He went to the University of Waterloo, Canada and got his PhD in Combinatorics and Optimisation.

He started with the motto of "Internet is life". He had many different ways to reach people in academia, in social media, and ordinary people at the street. The main problem, initially, was to raise public awareness of the Internet in Turkey. Provided by Wikipedia