“Turkey is close to the target of in-depth penetration of the 10 most developed countries in the field of industry” – Latest News
Defense Industry President İsmail Demir attended the Turkey 2023 Summit – Money Talks online. Emphasizing that in the last centuries, the power of walking the road together with an ecosystem that believes in the goal of becoming a ‘Full Independent Turkey’ in the defense industry and parts of national and domestic production has carried Turkey to a different dimension and said, “Turkey is no longer a market for the defense industry, it has become an actor. . Our industry, which is self-sufficient and able to meet the characteristics of its friends and competitors, has now become a popular place in the world.
Since the beginning of the 2000s, more and more words have been used to describe this development. rising and it should be based on a process that has gained momentum in recent years. From this life, while only 62 defense projects were carried out in 2002, today this number has increased to over 750”.
“The budget of defense plans increased 11 times”
about 5.5 billion in 2002 dollar Reminding that budgeted defense projects are being carried out, Demir said, “At the point we have reached, a project volume of around 60 billion has been reached with an 11-floor demonstration. Considering the projects that are still in the tender process, this figure has a limit of 75 billion dollars. While the number of companies was 56 in the same years, today more than 2000 companies are operating.
The device, which was mostly in the exhaust device in the defense industry until 20 years ago, has created its own helicopter, plane with the synergy it created under the control of our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. weather It has turned into a power that has the potential to pass its vehicle, missile, ship or even crossing”.
Noting that Turkey is getting closer to its goal of entering the top 10 most developed countries in the field of defense industry in the world, Demir said, “When we see that we have reached a very advanced descent compared to 20 years ago. But it is also expected that there is a long way to go in order to live.
We will continue to make significant contributions to the progress of our defense, which we believe in the efforts of the driving force of the Turkish Century, to the growing industry in every field and never to Turkey.
The most basic requirement to ensure the sustainability of the growth in the defense industry is exports. When we are able to ensure that the platforms we produce are not only self-sufficient, but also more popular in the world markets in the past, we will come to a Turkish history that makes more mention of the resources in the world. Our platforms at the point we have reached today have a regulation that is in demand and demanded in world trade. Selling our defense and target, which was only 248 million dollars in 2002, will increase to more than 4 billion dollars by the end of the year, mainly by the end of the year.”