ISTANBUL, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE:
YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local
businesses, today announced the availability of Yelp Turkey
(http://www.yelp.com.tr). Beginning today, people in Turkey are able to create accounts on
Yelp.com.tr to share their opinions about great local businesses
and services. Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications will be
available as well as its free suite of business owner tools: Yelp
for Business Owners (http://biz.yelp.com.tr).
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"Bridging the European and Asian continents, Turkey has always been a place for different
cultures and communities to meet, exchange and develop," said
Miriam Warren, Vice President New
Markets. "We look forward to watching the Yelp community experience
that same treatment as we hand over the reins to the local
population and ask them to make Yelp their very own local guide to
what's good and great wherever they are in Turkey."
A newly industrialised country with the youngest population in
Western Europe by median age, a
rapidly expanding population and an entrepreneurial spirit to rival
that of any nation, Turkey is
ideally suited to develop its own Yelp community for the benefit of
both consumers and independent small businesses.
Initially, Yelp's community building efforts will be
concentrated in Istanbul, an
expansive city that spans two separate continents. However, the
full-featured site will be available to all Turks across the entire
country and will support English, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish,
German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish and Turkish,
providing users access to local insights in any one of these twelve
languages.
To learn more and see pictures of Yelp.com.tr and our iPhone and
Android applications, visit our Yelp Official Blog
(http://officialblog.yelp.com).
About Yelp
Yelp (http://www.yelp.com or http://www.yelp.com.tr) connects
people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in
San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp communities have
taken root in major metros across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The
Netherlands, Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Singapore and Poland. Yelp had a monthly average of 84
million unique visitors in Q3 2012*. By the end of Q3 2012, Yelpers
had written more than 33 million rich, local reviews, making Yelp
the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth on everything from
boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. Yelp's mobile
application was used on 8.2 million unique mobile devices on a
monthly average basis during Q3 2012. For more information, please
visit http://www.yelp.com.tr or send an email to
press@yelp.com.
* Source: Google Analytics
Media Contacts:
UK
Elliot Adams
Yelp
eadams@yelp.co.uk or press@yelp.co.uk
+44(0)207-347-1663