Technology Ministry

China's BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle producer, has signed a deal with the Turkish Industry and Technology Ministry to build a $1 billion factory, while another Chinese carmaker SWM also has investment plans.

The Industry and Technology Ministry has introduced new regulations requiring technical services to digitally record and archive lift maintenance activities for six months, following several accidents resulting in deaths and injuries.

The preparations are underway for the 10th edition of Teknofest, the world's largest space, aviation and technology festival, to be held in the southern province of Adana this year.

"Don't look far. Teknofest 2024 is in Adana," Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of the Teknofest Board of Directors and the Turkish Technology Team (T3) Foundation, announced.

The preparations are underway for the 10th edition of Teknofest, the world's largest space, aviation and technology festival, to be held in the southern province of Adana this year.

"Don't look far. Teknofest 2024 is in Adana," Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of the Teknofest Board of Directors and the Turkish Technology Team (T3) Foundation, announced.

One of the installments of Türkiye's foremost technology and space event will take place in the southern province of Adana next year, reveals the chairman of festival organizer the Turkish Technology Team (T3) Foundation.

Istanbul's Şişli has been named Turkey's "most developed district" in a study conducted by the Industry and Technology Ministry.

The Çankaya district in Ankara ranked second, followed by Beşiktaş and Kadıköy in Istanbul. Yenimahalle, another district in the capital, came fifth in the ranking.

Innovation centers and model factories have been established in Turkey's three provinces, running successfully to support the entrepreneurship and innovation culture and promote structural transformation in the manufacturing industry.

Turkey has launched the mass production of respirators with 1,000 products on the manufacturing line for the Health Ministry to use, along with 5,000 others ordered, Science and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank said on March 26. 

One of the most favorite hashtags on social media nowadays is "#zeytinimedokunma," meaning "don't touch my olive." This is a hashtag used by everyone who is opposing a bill that will jeopardize the future of olive trees in Anatolia, which is considered the homeland of olives. 

One third of all elevators in Turkey are not safe, according to a new report prepared by the Science, Industry and Technology Ministry.

Over the course of 2015 the ministry inspected a total 3,064 elevators around the country and found that 1,012 were not fit for service.