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Law No 3238 highly flexible and efficient administrative
Law No:3238 ratified by the Turkish mechanism, the five main pillars of which
Parliament in 1985, established an institution are: Defence Industry Executive Committee,
capable of generating long term defence Undersecretariat for Defence Industries, The
policies and principles, and supplementing Defence Industry Support Fund, Defence
them with a continuous flow of financial Industry High Coordination Council and
resources. The organization founded to fulfill Defence Industry Control Committee.
these functions is the Undersecretariat for
Defence Industries (SSM), assigned with the 1. Defence Industry Executive Committee:
major task to constitute a modern defence The main decision making body of the system,
industry in Turkey and to achieve the Defence Industry Executive Committee is
modernization of the Turkish Armed Forces. chaired by the Prime Minister, and includes
In order to attain this objective, the main the Chief of General Staff and the Minister
principle applied by SSM is to meet military of National Defence as its members. The
requirements through domestic suppliers Executive Committee makes the critical
in the most technically and economically decisions relating to defence industry issues
feasible way possible. and major defence procurement projects.
The Committee is also required to provide
In addition to introducing a totally new nation-wide coordination between all
approach and mindset to the Turkish defence entities regarding defence industry.
industry, Law No:3238 also instituted a

Minister of National Defence
Fikri IŞIK

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