The second quarter of this 12 months noticed growing protection business exports for Türkiye, a senior authorities official instructed Anadolu Agency (AA) on the newest version of Teknofest, seen bringing collectively hundreds of lovers and illustrating the nation’s meteoric rise within the sector.
Haluk Görgün, the top of Türkiye’s Defense Industry Agency (SBB), mentioned the nation had achieved document protection business exports in April-June, optimistic that one other all-time excessive would comply with within the third quarter.
Speaking to AA within the capital Ankara through the five-day version of Türkiye’s largest tech truthful, Teknofest, Görgün mentioned the nation would fulfill its year-end protection exports goal of $6 billion (TL 160.20 billion).
“We’re making progress in terms of product diversity and increasing the number of countries we export to, and the coming days will bring very good news on exports,” Görgün mentioned, including that Turkish protection business exports included each platforms and subsystems, that are bought individually.
He additionally pointed to the surging curiosity in Teknofest, and its dozens of competitions, starting from novel electrical automotive races and jet engine design to environmentally pleasant agricultural, industrial and power tech.
Temel Kotil, head of the state-run Turkish Aerospace Industry (TAI), echoed that the sector is on monitor to achieve the $6 billion export goal, together with $1 billion by TAI.
“Türkiye is creating a revolution in the field of exports,” Kotil pressured.
According to Özgür Güleryüz, who runs one other protection business firm, STM, Teknofest is essential in displaying that the nation’s protection business strikes as a single physique.
“All companies are here, together, we are working very hard to create a little more excitement in our people, to attract their interest and to make them feel a little pride,” he instructed AA.
Mehmet Akif Nacar, the final supervisor of the protection agency Havelsan, mentioned Teknofest Ankara has drawn large crowds.
“As Havelsan, it really excites us to meet with our citizens and share information about our projects,” he instructed AA, stressing Teknofest’s position in producing human sources for the nation’s future.
Ahmet Akyol, chief of the Ankara-based protection large Aselsan, mentioned Teknofest is essential to the youthful era, whose participation in these occasions at an early age is important in reaching progress within the sector.
“Together with our new generation of young people and children, we will carry the Turkish defense industry further under the leadership of the Defense Industry Agency,” Akyol mentioned.
Murat Ikinci, head of Turkish missile producer Roketsan, mentioned the power and constructiveness in Teknofest is crucial indicator of the strong energy, power and human sources that the Turkish protection business wants.
“As defense industry institutions, we support the work our children do in this field as much as we can and try to help them reach higher levels and higher achievements,” he mentioned.
Space vacationers at Teknofest
Apart from high-state officers and main protection corporations’ participation, Teknofest in Ankara additionally noticed the nation’s first would-be area vacationers, Alper Gezeravcı and Tuva Cihangir Atasever, becoming a member of the gang at Etimesgut Airport.
Speaking to AA, Gezeravcı delved into his preparations for the upcoming area journey and mentioned that his 14-day mission to low-Earth orbit will embrace scientific experiments.
Training started within the U.S. in 2023 and continues, together with coaching in Japan and Germany, he famous.
He mentioned the Turkish Space Agency will launch him into area on the finish of 2023.
“My limit of dreams was the sky, the sky that I could see with my bare eyes and aircraft, so that’s the moments of the next journey,” he mentioned.
Türkiye chosen Gezeravcı and Atasever because the nation’s first area vacationers in Teknofest’s Istanbul version earlier this 12 months.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
