Speaking at the TÜBİTAK and TÜBA Awards Ceremony, President Erdoğan said: “We have got down to carrying our success story in defense industry to civil areas. We will no longer be a mere market for new technologies. We are determined to become a country that produces new technologies and exports them to the entire world.”

Pointing out that the Turkish public has embraced the new indigenous car and orders have already been made, Erdoğan said: "They foiled 'Cars of Revolution' but hopefully they won't be able to thwart the new indigenous car project. Our nation's eager embrace of this project is the greatest proof that what happened to the domestic and national technology moves in the past will not be repeated in the new indigenous car."

Speaking on Canal Istanbul Project, a Turkish project for the artificial sea-level waterway, which is being built by the Republic of Turkey on the European side of Turkey, connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and thus to the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, Erdoğan stated that the project would be built whether through an operate-transfer model or Turkey's national budget.

Emphasizing the importance of production of high value-added products based on high technology in strong and sustainable growth, Erdoğan stated that at least 100 try-and-do workshops would be held in Turkey’s 81 provinces over the next two years. (ILKHA)