Turkey's potential is at the level of creating its own Silicon Valley when it comes to digital platforms, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, announcing that the government is launching a "digital mobilization."

“I am declaring the next period as a digital mobilization period,” Erdogan said on Monday, speaking at a meeting focused on the virtual world of the metaverse.

According to Erdogan, the metaworld and similar platforms will probably become an integral part of future generations, and Turkey needs entrepreneurs and young people to move the country forward in this area.

The world is heading towards a new era built on digital technologies and the government has a duty to prepare its own people for this inevitable future in the “most correct, safe, strong and well-equipped way,” he said.

He noted that in addition to building the technological infrastructure, the government wants to ensure the creation of content that can be used in Turkey and, eventually, around the world.

“The insiders know best how bad the digital world is today. Even the legal and moral borderless situations of social media platforms that have only become cartels are the simplest proof that we need to draw our own path,” Erdogan said and stressed the need for a legal ground for digital platforms.