High tech firms in Turkiye keen to maintain effective ties with Qatari businesses

High tech companies in Turkiye are keen to maintain effective co-operation with Qatari businesses and go into joint ventures in both Turkiye and Qatar to build on the already excellent relations between the leaderships and peoples of the two brotherly countries.

Ozlem Telatar, Corporate Communications Manager at Teknopark Istanbul.Speaking to a team of journalists from Qatar who visited Istanbul recently on a tour organised by the Turkish embassy in Doha, Ozlem Telatar, Corporate Communications Manager at Teknopark Istanbul, stressed that Teknopark can offer Qatari businesses huge leaps in technology in various areas with its extensive expertise in the field that would boost innovation, productivity and create sophisticated business opportunities for established companies and startups as well. She pointed out that Teknopark is considered as Turkiye’s biggest science park specialised in deep tech with 44% of its activities covering defence industry technologies, 21% aviation and space, 13% marine and 22% advanced electronics and other technologies. She noted that the research and development outcome of Teknopark accounts for 424 companies, 2,806 national projects, and 265 intellectual patents and industrial property rights. Teknopark Incubation Center Manager Ahmed Kerim Nalbant briefed the team on some of the sample products that have been created by Teknopark researchers that would further facilitate human life such as mine detection technologies, support for the physically disabled persons and various other every day uses. He stressed that Qatar could be an excellent partner in this field and there are a huge scope for mutual co-operation with Qatari businesses and institutes to further promote innovation and technological advancements. Meanwhile, Qatar also owns 10% of the shares of the Turkish stock exchange Borsa Istanbul, and the officials there stressed that such Qatari investment has positively reflected on its performance over the past period. They also invited "Qatari investors to invest in the capital markets of our country. Our countrytarget="_blank"'>