Turkey's largest mobile phone operator ÔÇôTurkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS ÔÇô announced plans to build a US$70m data center near Istanbul.

It also said it is looking for similar investments in Syria, Libya and Iran.

According to a report by financial news wire Bloomberg, Turkcell plans to become a cloud computing company, providing its own service through the Internet.

It quoted Turkcell's CEO Sureyya Ciliy, who spoke with Turkish newspaper Milliyet.

The data center will be situated at Gebze town, near Istanbul.

Microsoft will work with Turkcell on the data center.

Meanwhile, ING Bank in Turkey said it has deployed infrastructure baswed on cisco's Borderless Network architecture in its data center.

It said the addition will help it with virtualization plans, which will be carried out to allow the bank to offer new products and improved services.

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