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Premises
Macunköy Facility is established on an area
of 186.000 m in total, of which 110.000 m is
2
2
indoor. The Directorate General, the Sector
Presidency of Communication and Information
Technologies, the Sector Presidency of
Defense System Technologies, and the Sector
Presidency of Transportation, Security and
Automation Systems are located at ASELSAN’s
Macunköy facility.

Akyurt Facility is established on an area of
231.000 m in total, of which 54.500 m is indoor.
2
2
The Sector Presidency of Microelectronics,
Guidance and Electro-Optics is located at
ASELSAN’s Akyurt facility.
Our ASELSAN Technopark facility located
within the METU-Technopark campus is
2
established on an area of 4500 m in total, of
which 4000 m is indoor. R & D activities of
2
the Group of Communication and Information
Technologies are carried out at our ASELSAN
Technopark facility.
Our Gölbaşı premises is located on an area
of 335.000 m , and has an indoor space of
2
2
76.000 m . ASELSAN, with this premises, has
the Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems
manufacturing facility which is the largest of
Turkey and which is among the top three in
Europe.
ASELSAN has become a company that
purchases, establishes and participates in
companies at home and abroad through its
strategy of growing based on original products
in recent years by leaving its appearance of
a company that only grows in itself. For this
purpose, it has established factories that
will make sales in the UAE, Jordan, Qatar,
Kazakhstan, and Saudi Arabia and in the
countries around by manufacturing in the
above-countries the ASELSAN products of
which 49% or 50% share belonging to it. We have
branches in Azerbaijan and Macedonia, and we
have a company named ASELSAN Malaysian
in Malaysia. For the purpose of making use
of foreign know-how, it has established an
electro-optical design office in South Africa.

For the purpose of creating a sustainable and
consistent potential of exportation in the
medium and long term, ASELSAN continues
its exportation activities in the target
regions/countries by evaluating the current
international policies, the current political/
economic conditions, the international policies
and relations followed by Turkey, the current
collaborations and relations of ASELSAN
with the relevant institutions/organizations/
companies in other countries. Within this
scope, we are determined to improve better
our relations with the countries of the Latin
America, the Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caspian
Region, and Asia and Pacific, the Middle
East being in the first place, and to take the
ASELSAN brand and products to the top in
global choices.

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