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<\/p>\nT\u00fcrkiye aims to see 100,000 startups founded by 2030 and to raise the combined valuation of its “Turcorns,” the country’s billion-dollar startups, to $100 billion, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kac\u0131r said on Friday.<\/p>\n
“We aim to have 100,000 startups established in T\u00fcrkiye by 2030 and to raise the total valuation of our Turcorns to $100 billion,” Kac\u0131r told the GO! GLOBAL T\u00fcrkiye Summit 2026.<\/p>\n
The event was organized by the T\u00fcrkiye-U.S. Business Council’s Digital Working Group at the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) with Endeavor T\u00fcrkiye. It focused on T\u00fcrkiye’s technology entrepreneurship ecosystem, global investment opportunities and goals in advanced technology.<\/p>\n
Kac\u0131r said T\u00fcrkiye is working to become a global center for technology, entrepreneurship and investment. He said annual research and development spending has risen over the past 20 years from $1.2 billion to about $20 billion, and R&D’s share of national income from 0.5% to 1.46%.<\/p>\n
He said advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, semiconductors and quantum technologies are reshaping global competition, value chains and traditional sources of competitive advantage.<\/p>\n
Kac\u0131r said more than 13,000 technology companies operate in T\u00fcrkiye’s 115 technology parks, and thousands of researchers and engineers work in more than 1,700 R&D and design centers. He added that T\u00fcrkiye is the world’s 11th-largest defense exporter.<\/p>\n
Startup support, data centers<\/p>\n
Kac\u0131r pointed to Togg, T\u00fcrkiye’s national electric carmaker, as a concrete example of this vision. He said more than 120,000 Togg vehicles have been put on the road so far.<\/p>\n
He said the BiGG program is T\u00fcrkiye’s largest public support mechanism for pre-seed and seed-stage technology startups, and has helped set up about 2,700 technology ventures.<\/p>\n
Kac\u0131r said artificial intelligence is among the government’s highest priorities, and that T\u00fcrkiye wants to be a country that develops AI technologies and exports them to global markets.<\/p>\n
The T\u00fcrkiye AI Action Plan has 16 priority actions, he said. Within two years, the government aims to train 10,000 advanced AI specialists and 100,000 AI application professionals, and to give AI literacy training to 5 million citizens.<\/p>\n
On data centers, he said the goal is to raise installed capacity to at least 1 gigawatt by 2030, which would require mobilising at least $10 billion of investment.<\/p>\n
He said $3 billion in public support has been set aside for data center and AI investments under HIT-30, the government’s high-technology investment program.<\/p>\n
Kac\u0131r said T\u00fcrkiye offers global investors its strategic location, growth, large domestic market and skilled workforce. The economy has grown by more than 5% a year on average over the past 20 years, he said, and the country has more than 86 million people and about 23 million primary, secondary and university students.<\/p>\n
He said T\u00fcrkiye added about 8 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity last year, and aims to add 8 to 10 gigawatts of renewable capacity each year for the next decade.<\/p>\n
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