Fatih Kacır

Turkish Industry and Technology Mehmet Minister Fatih Kacır has urged the European Union to provide visa exemptions for Turkish young researchers and entrepreneurs, stressing the significance of this move in invigorating Europe's innovation and technology ecosystem.

Industry and Technology Minister Fatih Kacır has called on Chinese carmaker Chery to invest in Türkiye.

He visited the production facilities of Chery, China's largest automotive exporter since 2012, Kacır wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Dec. 21.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is providing loans of up to 20 billion yen ($139 million) to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises that were affected by the February earthquakes.

The loan agreement was signed between JICA and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization of Türkiye (KOSGEB) in the capital Ankara.

The defense industry is the leading sector of the national technology movement, Industry and Technology Minister Fatih Kacır has said, adding that the sector will be in a much better position than today in the future.

Industry and Technology Minister Fatih Kacır has said during his ministry's budget discussion for 2024 that Türkiye will contribute $7 billion a year to closing the current account deficit by implementing 185 projects focusing on medium and high technology with an investment of $66 billion.

Monetary and fiscal policies will be used in the fight against inflation, according to the statement released after the Economy Coordination Board (ECB) meeting.

The board, chaired by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, convened on Oct. 30.

Establishing price stability remains the top priority for the government, read a statement released after a meeting of the Economy Coordination board, adding that members of the board also discussed details of the key medium-term program to be announced later this year.

The two-stage moon mission that Türkiye intends to carry out using spacecraft that were built and developed domestically was revealed recently by Industry and Technology Minister Fatih Kacır.

Türkiye's first electric carmaker Togg will introduce a new Sedan model to the market toward the end of 2024, Industry and Technology Minister Fatih Kacır has said.

Every one and a half or two years, new models will be launched, Kacır stated in a televised interview on private broadcaster CNN Türk.

Türkiye's first electric carmaker Togg will produce a total of 1 million vehicles by 2032, Industry and Technology Minister Fatih Kacır has said.

Some 97 percent of those vehicles will be sold to consumers while the public institutions will buy the remaining 3 percent, the minister told a group of journalists.