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About TurkDutch Marketplace

A more trusted starting point for Dutch-Turkish business discovery.

Across the Dutch-Turkish business landscape, valuable organizations often remain invisible to each other or depend too heavily on informal introductions.

TurkDutch Marketplace was created to make relevant business discovery more structured, more credible, and easier to act on across the Netherlands, Türkiye, and the wider ecosystem.

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The challenge

Discovery is still too fragmented.

Valuable organizations often remain difficult to find, difficult to assess, and too dependent on informal networks before meaningful business contact can begin.

Scattered networks

Relevant organizations often remain invisible to each other across markets and sectors.

Informal introductions

Too much still depends on closed circles, referrals, and who already knows whom.

Limited visibility

Capabilities, opportunities, and fit are hard to assess before a conversation even starts.

Slow to act

Good matches lose momentum because discovery begins too late or with too little context.

The TurkDutch approach

A more structured and credible ecosystem.

TurkDutch Marketplace is being built as infrastructure for trusted discovery: relevant organizations, clearer context, visible opportunities, and better first business contact.

Curated access

A more relevant starting network for approved organizations.

More context

Profiles, listings, and signals make fit easier to assess earlier.

Better visibility

Organizations and opportunities become easier to spot across both sides.

Faster collaboration

Discovery moves more naturally toward meaningful business contact.

Our mission

Help relevant organizations across the Dutch-Turkish ecosystem discover each other earlier, assess fit faster, and move toward real collaboration.

Our vision

Build a more trusted and structured ecosystem where business discovery no longer depends on coincidence, fragmented networks, or cold outreach alone.

Our principles

Private

A member environment for approved organizations and relevant opportunities.

Curated

Access is reviewed to keep the early network focused, credible, and useful.

Credible

The marketplace is built around clearer profiles, visible activity, and better first contact.

Founder note

Built from experience. Focused on impact.

TurkDutch Marketplace grew from a simple observation: organizations with real potential to work together often never discover each other early enough — or rely too heavily on fragmented networks and informal introductions.

The goal is not to replace trusted relationships. It is to create a more credible starting point for discovering them earlier, assessing fit faster, and moving toward meaningful business conversations with more confidence.

Founder

Ahmet Polat

Founder, TurkDutch Marketplace

Ahmet Polat has spent more than three decades working across innovation, industry, and international collaboration. Through his work with companies, public institutions, and international ecosystems, he repeatedly saw how difficult relevant cross-border business discovery still is in practice — especially outside existing networks.

What members gain access to

A better way to discover, assess, and act on relevant business contact.

TurkDutch Marketplace is designed to make early discovery more useful: more context, better visibility, and a stronger route from relevant interest to real conversation.

A more contextual private business network

Browse approved organizations with more useful context before outreach begins.

Better visibility inside a curated ecosystem

Present capabilities and partnership intent in a more focused setting.

Earlier discovery of relevant organizations and opportunities

Spot listings, collaboration signals, and better-fit matches sooner.

A platform designed for quality interactions over cold outreach

Keep inquiries and introductions visible in one place as conversations begin.

Next step

Explore the platform structure or apply for early access.

See how the marketplace works — or become part of the early network of organizations helping shape a more credible Dutch-Turkish business ecosystem.

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