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MESSAGE

“SAHA EXPO 2024 will

Showcase the Domestic Production

Potential of our Country”

- Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün, President of the Defence Industry Agency of Türkiye

We are working hard with all of our stake- providing production capabilities that are not SAHA EXPO 2024 is an important plat-
holders in our ecosystem to develop our available in our country, ensuring that our form where main platform manufacturers,
country’s defence industry with indigenous universities and industry work in sync, and suppliers and companies that produce for
and national systems and technologies. providing collective support to the search the defence, maritime, aviation and space
Clusters play an important role in these for foreign markets, provides great added industries, and companies that want to take
efforts. We consider our clusters as an value to our defence industry. part as suppliers in these sectors come
important institutional mechanism that en- together. The event, which showcases the
ables communication between actors in the SAHA EXPO, which has been organised by domestic production potential of our coun-
sector, and we support clusters focused SAHA Istanbul since 2018, grew by 50% try, will also make significant contributions
on the defence industry in line with our at the square meter, 112% at the exhibitor to the National Technology Move.
fully independent defence industry targets. level, and 226% at the visitor level in the last
Through Defence Industry Clusters, we aim exhibition in 2022 compared to the previous I hope that SAHA EXPO 2024 will be com-
to create cooperation and unity of power in one. In parallel with the growing rates, we ex- pleted successfully on behalf of our country
our sector, increase the competitiveness of pect more than 500 official and commercial and our industry, I wish all participants to
member companies, and create an import- delegations and more than 150,000 visitors have a productive exhibition, and I congrat-
ant synergy by encouraging domestic and this year in the exhibition area, which has ulate all stakeholders who contributed to
national production. been increased to 90,000 square metres the organisation, especially SAHA Istanbul
for more than 1,200 companies. The cyber Defence and Aerospace Cluster.
Established with the mission of improving security and artificial intelligence pavilions
the technological and sectoral competen- and public participation days, which will be We are excited about SAHA EXPO 2024, one
cies of its members and creating a strong opened for the first time this year, will sup- of the brand events of our country. We look
ecosystem by supporting cooperation, port the further strengthening of the event. forward to meetings with many international
SAHA İstanbul Defence and Aerospace The high-level meetings to be held will lead delegations.
Cluster is the largest industrial cluster in to new formations and unions, and the new
Türkiye and Europe. SAHA Istanbul, which agreements to be signed will reinforce our
carries out its activities with the aim of leverage role in the economy. See you in Istanbul...

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