Speaking at the TEKNOFEST 2022, President Erdoğan said: “Today, our UCAVs represent our country with pride in over 30 countries in the world. We now produce almost all the equipment and munition integrated with these vehicles.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the TEKNOFEST 2022 in Samsun.
Congratulating the T3 Foundation and its supporting institutions for building such a brand, which made Türkiye proud, President Erdoğan said: “The greatest aviation, space and technology festival, the fifth of which is held here today, has now extended beyond our borders.”
“THE TEKNOFEST GENERATION IS TÜRKİYE’S REALITY”
“The TEKNOFEST has become a festival, where 154 thousand teams with 600 thousand members from 81 provinces in Türkiye and also from 107 countries compete in 40 different branches,” President Erdoğan noted, and added: “It is truly a mental revolution that a technology event is embraced to such an extent, especially by the youth.”
“The TEKNOFEST generation is Türkiye’s reality as well as necessity,” President Erdoğan underscored. “When we embarked upon our journey to develop our own technology, design and produce our own defense industry products, we believed in our youth,” President Erdoğan recalled, and further stated: “We trusted our people, we relied on our people, we paved the way and gave opportunities to our people, and now we have come to a point where the entire world follows us with admiration.”
“As you remember, during the Karabakh War, Canada stopped the sale of the cameras we use in our UAVs and imposed an embargo on us. However, since we had foresaw those days and prepared beforehand, we immediately switched to our domestically-made cameras and continued on our path. Now, the same Canada is trying to purchase our UAVs, which they imposed an embargo on, to send to Ukraine. Today, our UCAVs represent our country with pride in over 30 countries in the world. We now produce almost all the equipment and munition integrated with these vehicles,” President Erdoğan said.
