This is a follow-up to Cem Sertoglu’s post on Turkish Online News, dated July 28th, 2009.

Some resources say there are 26 million internet users in Turkey, making it 14th largest internet population in the world. Yet, that wouldn’t be enough to justify the following result from Google Insights.

The table is a snapshot from Google Insights for Search. Parameters are: Last 90 days, Worldwide, and for the whole "News & Current Events" category. So, nothing specific for Turkey. Roughly, 5 of the top 10 search queries in News category comes from Turkey (#2,3,5,8,9). This is just stunning.

Here is a live embed from Google Insights in case things change (probably towards higher Turkish dominance).