Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce company Alibaba.com (1688.HK) announced a strategic alliance with Turkish software developer and reseller Logo Group on May 13. As part of the agreement, Logo will help Alibaba.com build its brand in Turkey and become a reseller of Alibaba.com product Gold Supplier international. Logo-operated corporate social networking site Diyalogo will also co-promote Alibaba.com to its users.

Alibaba.com intends to extend its Gold Supplier membership to suppliers in Turkey in July and, for a limited time, upgrade existing Turkey-based International TrustPass members to Gold Supplier international service for free.

Alibaba.com's registered user base grew nearly 75% in Turkey in the last 12 months and is currently near 200,000 users. Logo's flagship company has 150,000 customers and 1 million active users, most of which are local small and medium-sized enterprises.