Turkey: Maximize the potential of businesses

In Turkey, the CNQP complex is understood as an ecosystem with the participation of 4 parties, including: Government, industry, military, and researchers. The Turkish CNQP consortium’s goal is to establish a full and independent CNQP industry by 2023.
In terms of development strategy, Turkey’s CNQP is determined to bring together the symbiotic power of all stakeholders, but with large industry separation, small and medium enterprises … to maximize the potential of businesses; fully complete the needs of products for the military. Turkey determines to develop the most advanced and high technologies by domestic research teams (agencies, research institutes, universities); focus on step by step localization of VKTBKT.

Besides, this country also has a long-term product ordering strategy right from the sample research stage; to provide loans in advance, in combination with other economic and financial incentives for high-tech equipment and weapons … ATAK combat helicopters researched and developed by Turkey. Photo: Tusas.com In order to ensure the sustainability of CNQP, Turkey encourages private enterprises to participate in CNQP; promote the export of defense products; have preferential policies for private enterprises; forming business clusters; ensure the participation of universities and research institutes; enhancing the technological capacity of national industry … With such steps, as a result, the localization rate of Turkey’s VKTBKT increased from 24% in 2002 to 68.5% in 2016. The ATAK combat helicopter project is one of the prime examples of the formation of vertical specialized corporations, working horizontally together of elements in the Turkish CNQP complex, to create strategic products. In the ATAK combat helicopter project, success is achieved through the effective cooperation of government and businesses. In which, the government assigned TAI to chair; TUBITAK, Meteksan Defense and Bilkent University collaborate on the millimeter-wave radar part – an important piece of technology that determines ATAK’s Turkish origin; ASELSAN does electronic warfare; ROCKETSAN makes the rocket; Honeywell International & Rolls-Royce as the engine … It is known that Turkey currently has 3 major CNQP companies in the top 100 of the world, namely ASELSAN, TAI and ROCKETSAN, taking on the main roles for high-tech industries such as: Aerospace, rockets, and information. contact, precision weapon … In August 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the country had made steady progress in the field of CNQP; can meet the needs of national defense and security. CNQP is not an area that can depend on foreign countries, he emphasized, so Turkey needs to further develop this field and produce more advanced products. It can be seen that, in a number of recent conflicts, Turkish weapons have demonstrated the superiority of tactical skills, including unmanned aircraft. In the past few years, Turkey has exported rockets, armored vehicles, artillery, warships … to Pakistan, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Azerbaijan. In 2019 alone, Turkey’s arms exports increased by 36.4% compared to 2018, reaching more than 2.7 billion USD.