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Hüseyin CİĞEROĞLU

SAP Turkey Business Development Manager

SAP is contributing to the development

of Turkish Defence Industry

With SAP, the Turkish Defence Industry will have standards-based solutions that the
world’s most advanced armies rely on for years. Thanks to SAP’s proven practices and
processes, Turkish military institutions will be able to reach the same level as military
institutions of developed countries around the world.

When we look at the growth rate of the Turkish Problems and solutions
defence industry and the accomplishments, we can It is important to plan the balance of national
evaluate the efforts as very successful. Systems development to maximize Turkey’s both economic
and platforms which are built or being built with and technological gains.
the contributions of Turkish engineers, such as
Atak Helicopter, Göktürk Satellite, General Purpose Trying to develop the entire product portfolio
Helicopter, Altay Tank, Anka UAV summarize the or every piece of a product nationally may not
point very well where the Turkish Defence Industry be as useful as we think. This balance should
be planned and implemented very carefully. Of
has come.
course, products like cyber security, embedded
software and crypto systems should be developed
We think that such a vibrant industry that has
within Turkey. But trying to build products that are
achieved a very rapid growth in recent years is also
already proven well and easily accessible may lead
the locomotive of the 2023 vision. Especially with
to both economic loss and time loss. We believe
the future steps that will be taken to increase the
the nationalization and research & development
export of defence products, we believe that the
of products is essential when national security is
targets of 2023 vision will be successful.
concerned. Products that can be easily procured
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