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IN ORDER TO

BECOME A GLOBAL

POWER, THE

R&D PROJECTS

CARRIED OUT

IN THE DEFENSE

INDUSTRY SHOULD Volkan GÜN
Systems Engineering and
CONTINUE Project Manager
TÜMOSAN

What should to be done by Turkey to become a “Global Power”? time, that is the only way that let you to develop both externally
What is your approach for a sustainable defense industry? and internally in the globalized world conditions. Basically, for
Today’s technology is developing day by day, especially the the detail of internal development, it can be easily stated that
importance of defense industry systems is increasing. Defense if a country start to improve its industry by supporting and
industry investments could be considered as one of the biggest forcing the localization for every kind of industrial products,
indicators of the independence of a country. accordingly companies of that country should start to invest
in to R & D activities, and this situation reveals new ideas in
The success of defense industry projects on a global scale shall everywhere. New ideas, namely, innovation turns the main key of
be a breakthrough that would benefit the country’s added value. R & D activities for developing new products in high quality. And,
high quality in production is the most important way for selling
Recent international diplomatic problems and the increase their products abroad. Namely, that is the key of exportation.
of terrorist attacks have revealed the importance of defense Briefly, for a country, development starts first internally by
industry investments. Therefore, it is clear that a country with realizing localization and at the end of the day, this start let this
a strong defense industry would also have power in the global country to succeed the external development by increasing their
sense. In order to achieve a global role in the defense industry, exportation rates.
the number of domestic companies among the top hundred
companies in the global scale should increase. This criterion On the other hand, it can be easily stated that for the localization
would be an important indicator for becoming a global power. in Turkey, especially, in the defence industry, there are also
significant progress under leading of The Presidency of Defence
In order to become a global power, the R & D projects carried out Industries. In detail, at last time, within the scope of SK/O program
in the defense industry should continue. However, these projects (Industry Participation / Offset Program), companies has to make
should be capable of responding not only to the needs of our their production according to the minimum localization rate that
country but also to the market needs around the world. is already specified by SK/O program obligations. So, in that way,
The Presidency of Defence Industries is aiming to increase the
It would be possible to obtain defense industry orders from localization rates in productions by forcing the companies with
abroad rather than domestic, by conducting overseas market SK/O obligations. But, it has to be stated that even SK/O is seen
research and by determining the market strategies correctly. such a very effective method for increasing localization rates,
Therefore, demand-enhancing measures for the foreign market its success can be occurred only under the condition if a good
are important to ensure sustainability in the sector. control mechanism is built.

The most important method of creating a sustainable model Could you give information about your company’s activities
in the basic context is the development of medium and small- in the field of defense industry? What are your goals for 2019
scale industries and sub-industry. In this context, government and 2023?
incentives should be increased and maintained. Simultaneous TÜMOSAN provides efficiently production, marketing, sales and
development and support of large, medium and small enterprises after-sales service of diesel engines and tractors, transmission,
will encourage a sustainable structure. In the defense industry, powertrain, agricultural equipment, generators, marine engines,
where projects are generally long-term, the government needs diesel and electric forklifts to its customers all over the world.
to support all industry stakeholders and provide the necessary Produced diesel engines is being used in the tractors, automotive,
motivation. This is very important for the projects to generate cleaning equipment, manufacture of generators and marine
added value for the country. vehicles in Turkey and overseas by customers.
TÜMOSAN grant considerable resources to research and
What do you think about the efforts about export, innovation, development activities to increase customer satisfaction, reduce
R&D and nationalization of defence industry in Turkey? production costs and explore the new technologies. TÜMOSAN
For the last years, parallel to the roadmap and strategy of Turkish Research and Development (R&D) activities are mainly carried
Government, as being in every industrial sectors, in the term of out on Vehicles, Transmission, Diesel Engine, Marine Engine,
localization, there are significant progress in the defence industry Powertrain, Agricultural Equipment, Generator, Diesel / Electric
too. In this subject, it has to be stated that the term localization Forklift and Electrical / Electronic System Design.
is a very strong and important subject, because at the present

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