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2. Undersecretariat for Defence Industries •To coordinate export and offset trade issues
(SSM): relating to defence industry products.
The main duty of SSM, the second organ
established by the Defence Industry Law, 3. The Defence Industry Support Fund:
is to enact the decisions taken by the The Fund, designed as the prupose-built
Executive Committee. According to the Law, financial instrument to enable SSM to
SSM has a separate legal entity, as well as its carry out its tasks, is a highly flexible and
own extra-budgetary financial resources to bureaucratic formality-free mechanism with
perform the following functions: a constant flow of financial resources, fully in
•To carry out the decisions taken by the control of SSM. Among the main cash inflow
Defence Industry Executive Committee, groups are; allotments from corporate tax,es
•To reorganize existing Turkish Industry fees and levies imposed on alcoholic and
in line with the prerequisites of defence tobacco products, and all forms of lottery,
industry, betting and games of chance etc. Since 1986,
•To plan the production of modern arms 80% of a total of US$11 billion was allocated
and equipment at private and public sector to domestic production purposes, 16% to
entities, direct procurement projects and 4% to ATIP
•To conduct research and development of (Advanced Technologies Industrial Park)
modern arms and equipment and to have Project.
their prototypes manufactured,

DEFENCE INDUSTRY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Prime Minister Binali YILDIRIM
Minister of Interior Süleyman SOYLU
Minister of National Defence Fikri IŞIK
Chief of General Staff General Hulusi
AKAR

Minister of Interior
Chief of General Staff General Süleyman SOYLU
Hulusi AKAR

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