the automotive industry is based on the foundations of Turkey beginning of the 1960s. This important sector, which has gone through a period of rapid industrialization and progress, has transformed from assembly-weighted partnerships to a full-fledged industry with design capability and large production capacity. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM), operating in Turkey since 2000 and has invested over 15 billion US dollars. These investments, said increasing the production capacity of the company has provided substantial acquisition of Turkey’s most important place in the global value chains of international OEMs. meet international quality and safety standards, even in today’s Turkey last beyond these standards in the automotive industry, thanks to the understanding of value-added production is located in a highly efficient and competitive position.

Turkey, the economy of the global value chain by integrating Umeda an important economic driving force of the automotive sector, the conversion works and economic force in the sector of the country in line with its vision to become the center of power they get from accumulation based on long years, it has developed with local resources “born electric” tool has been introduced recently.

Accordingly, it is known as TOGG Turkey Automobile Joint Venture Group, the idea until 2030 and will have full intellectual property rights will produce five different models on a common platform. The first of these vehicles to be manufactured in our country is expected to be launched on the market in 2022.

• Competitive and qualified workforce, and advantageous geographical position thanks to dynamic domestic market in 2002, while production of 9 global OEMs in Turkey’s 300,000 vehicles, surpassing the 1.5 million in 2018 increased by almost five times. This increase shows that a compound annual growth rate of approximately 10% was realized in the said period. In the last five years alone, MAN increased its production by 143%, Toyota by 95%, Ford by 52% and Fiat by 35%.
  
  
• This significant growth recorded by the automotive sector in Turkey by the end of 2018, the world’s 15th largest, has enabled Europe to rise to the 5th largest automotive manufacturer.
  
  
• Turkey, especially in the commercial vehicle production, has become a center of excellence. By the end of 2018, Turkey was Europe’s second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer.
  
  
• Proving itself as a unique automotive industry production center of Turkey, it is now R & D, design and branding aims to develop capacities. As of 2019, the automotive manufacturers in Turkey / suppliers shows 184 design and R & D center of their activities.
  
  
• Ford, Fiat, Daimler and AVL product development in Turkey, who are outstanding in their design and engineering activities stand out as examples of global brands. Ford Otosan’s R&D center is one of Ford’s three largest R&D centers globally, while Fiat’s R&D center in Bursa is the only center of the Italian company serving the European market outside of its own country. On the other hand, Daimler’s R & D center in Istanbul, plays an integral role in the German company’s truck and bus production activities in Turkey. The second R & D center opened in Turkey while Turkey AVL, driverless technologies and hybrid vehicles began to develop.
  
  
• Turkey offers a supportive environment in the supply chain side. There are about 1,100 parts suppliers in the country that support production at OEMs. The parts go directly to vehicle manufacturers’ production lines and the localization rate in OEMs ranges from 50% to 70%.
  
  
• Turkey is home to a large number of global suppliers. Turkey has more than 250 global suppliers and their use as a production base is located in 30 of the 50 largest global supplier.
  
  
• Automotive manufacturers, as a production base for exports are increasingly more likely to prefer Turkey. estimated to be about 85% of the market for foreign vehicle production in Turkey in 2018 is an indication of this condition. In the same period, foreign markets have been exported from Turkey to more than 1.3 million vehicles. At the same time last year, it has more than 1.1 million vehicles in the European car-exporting countries to Turkey.
  
  

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