Erdogan pointed to significant advances in technology exports, with mid-high and high-tech product sales rising from $10 billion in 2002 to $112 billion in 2025.
Annualised mid-high and high-tech manufacturing exports reached $114.4 billion, he added.
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Touching on the defence and aviation sectors, he said exports rose by 29.5 percent in the first five months of the year to reach $3.86 billion.
The country elevated its defence industry from generating $248 million annually to reaching $992 million in monthly exports, Erdogan remarked.
“We are now doing in one week the export we used to do in one year,” he emphasised.
Stressing the nation’s changing global position, Erdogan said Türkiye is no longer an introverted country but a respected state capable of establishing relations on an equal footing.
The government and private sector will continue working hand in hand to raise the country’s export targets even higher in this new era, he concluded.
