Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Hisarcıklıoğlu, in his speech at the “Domestic Production with Innovation and the Power of SMEs Event” held online and attended by the Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, said that they work in an effective cooperation with Turkcell and that they aim to make concrete cooperation between Turkcell and SMEs.

Hisarcıklıoğlu said that with the “Women Writing the Future Project”, they train women in software and support them to develop technological solutions in the fight against climate change.

Hisarcıklıoğlu underlined that they are also involved in Turkey's Automobile TOGG with Turkcell, “We are working in cooperation to create mobility infrastructure in our country. With the cooperation we have realized today, we aim to contribute to the formation of the 5G ecosystem in our country. We want to draw attention to the indigenization of this technology.”

Hisarcıklıoğlu, stating that they will not leave SMEs alone during the production of new technologies, said, “We will direct SMEs to benefit from all the opportunities of the state and ensure that they benefit from the supports.”

- Call for “industrial capacity report” for SMEs

Stating that they have started the supplier development program with Turkcell as of today, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “We will continue the activities within the scope of the program in the coming months. At the end of the year, we will see the results of the supply that our SMEs participating in today's event will provide to Turkcell.”

Hisarcıklıoğlu also mentioned that TOBB cooperates with many organizations at the point of supplier development, and said: “During our work, in addition to technology giants such as Turkcell, leading organizations in the field such as the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) and large enterprises from many sectors take part in our work, including important projects such as Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, which is one of the important projects of our country. The SMEs we invite to these studies are the companies that have capacity reports or domestic goods certificates registered in the TOBB Industry Database. If you want to be a supplier to large enterprises by taking part in these studies, I recommend that you get your industrial capacity reports as soon as possible and provide your domestic goods certificates within the scope of the technologies you have developed. This will make it easy for us to contact you and incorporate you into our work.”

- Minister Varank

Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank also touched on the importance of cooperation of SMEs with large-scale enterprises.

Reminding that the “start-up” named Biosys, which combined its power with Baykar, Arçelik and Aselsan during the Covid-19 pandemic, wrote a success story, Varank said that thanks to this cooperation, the intensive care ventilator started mass production in a record time of two weeks.

Varank reported that in the defense industry, large companies and SMEs came together and carried the indigenousness rates from 25 percent to 80 percent.

Varank, stating that the supports for indigenization are not limited to these, said that within the scope of the Investment Incentive System, high-level technologies such as Turkey's Automobile, electric vehicle systems, unmanned aerial vehicle production, National Combat Aircraft production, solar panel production have been implemented with the project-based support system or the projects are progressing rapidly.

Varank, stating that he finds Turkcell's efforts to support the domestic ecosystem and SMEs admirable, said, “I hope that the Supplier-Oriented Innovation Program, Indigenousness Program and My Great Partner Program created in this direction will accelerate the development of the indigenousness ecosystem. I would like to take this opportunity to invite our other large-scale companies to invest in our SMEs, which are the future of our country, and to develop their suppliers.”