Record from the Defense Sector: 12% Increase in 2024

Turkey's defense and aerospace sector set a new export record in the first two months of 2024, up 12% from last year. The industry has maintained.


Record from the Defense Sector: 12% Increase in 2024

Defense and Aviation Sector Sets New Export Record


The defense and aviation sector achieved exports in the first 2 months of 2024 with an increase of approximately 12% compared to the previous year.

Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) President Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün shared the data on the export volume realized in the defense and aviation sector in the first 2 months of 2024. Görgün announced that a total of 632.783 million dollars worth of sales were made in the defense and aviation sector, which is one of Turkey's important export items, in the first 2 months of 2024. This sales volume shows an increase of approximately 12% in the first 2 months of 2024 compared to the previous year.

Data from Previous Years


According to the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) data, the defense and aviation sector realized exports worth 330 million 248 thousand dollars in January 2024. According to TİM data, the Turkish defense and aviation sector realized exports worth 278 million 885 thousand dollars in January 2023. In other words, the sector had achieved an 18% increase compared to the same month of the previous year.

The Turkish defense and aviation sector realized exports worth a total of 5 billion 545 million 622 thousand dollars in 2023. The sector's target for 2023 was to achieve exports worth 6 billion dollars.

Statement by SSB President Haluk Görgün in X:

"Our Defense and Aviation Exports are among our priority issues for the sustainable growth of our sector. The security needs of our friendly and brotherly countries on the axis of world peace and the interest of user countries in our defense systems also lay the foundations for the future of our sector. Behind this growth trend in the international arena is the unconditional support of our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his belief in our children. We will continue to work tirelessly day and night with a defense industry that is united from our main integrator companies to our subcontractors."

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