Turkey highlights ‘nationalization’ in defense with ASELSAN summit.

The summit’s design and manufacturing activities will focus on bringing together industrialists and manufacturers as work on moving Turkey towards self-sufficiency in its defense industry continues. Turkey is currently using 65 percent indigenous products in its defense operations.

Aselsan's remote control weaons station armed with a Browning M2 heavy machinegun (Picture source: Aselsan)

A summit organized by Turkish defense giant ASELSAN aims to give momentum to Turkey’s forward trajectory on the issue of “nationalizing” the country’s defense industry by bringing together 2,000 of Turkey’s leading industrialists under one roof. The summit’s design and manufacturing activities will focus on bringing together industrialists and manufacturers as work on moving Turkey towards self-sufficiency in its defense industry continues unabatedly.

Founded in 1975 in the capital Ankara, Aselsan, which produces military radios and defense electronic systems for the Turkish Armed Forces, is seen as Turkey's premier defense systems producer.