Within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), an operation was carried out in 12 provinces centered in Istanbul. During the operation, 17 suspects were caught, 15 of whom were active doctors working for public patients. Among those caught are those who had ByLock correspondence, the organization’s secret communication application, and those who participated in the TUS (Medical Specialization Examination) camp, which was created by the organization under the name of cellular study and was held in dormitories affiliated with the organization.

EXCUSE TO STUDY
Istanbul Provincial Police Department Anti-Smuggling Crimes Branch Directorate teams started technical and physical surveillance within the framework of the FETO investigation. Some people who were determined to have participated in the TUS (Medical Specialization Examination) camp, which was created by the organization under the name of “studying” on a cellular basis and held in a dormitory sponsored by FETO, and members of the organization whose correspondences with FETO’s secret communication program ByLock were revealed, were identified. According to the information in the investigation file, it was noted that these people contributed to the increase in balance by depositing money into their closed Bank Asya accounts in accordance with the instructions of the leader of the organization. It was also noted that these people were repeatedly called from pay lines as the organization’s secret communication method.

SIMULTANEOUS RAID IN 12 PROVINCES
Yesterday morning, a simultaneous operation was launched at addresses determined in the provinces of Ankara, Bingöl, Bursa, Çorum, İzmir, Kayseri, Konya, Kütahya, Muğla, Ordu and Rize, centered in Istanbul. During the raids, 17 suspects who were members of FETO/PDY, for whom an arrest warrant was issued, were caught and detained. It was learned that 15 of the captured suspects were active doctors in public hospitals.

Entertech Maslak Go and Startgate TEKMER were opened in Maslak. Speaking after the promotional film, Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır stated that national technology workshops will be established in 100 universities of Türkiye as of this year and said, “Turkey has come a long way in its technology development journey in the last 23 years. When we look back 23 years ago, we know that there was a period when concepts such as research, development and innovation were not on the agenda in our private sector. But now the Turkish private sector has become the pioneer of research and development in Türkiye. Türkiye’s total R&D expenditures are over 1.2 billion dollars.” “While it increased to 20 billion dollars, the R&D expenditures of the Turkish private sector also reached 14 billion dollars from 350 million dollars. Today, the Turkish private sector is in a position to achieve pioneering success stories in different sectors that are renowned in the world with the success stories it has revealed.”

“95 PERCENT OF THE PRODUCTS EXPORTED BY Türkiye CONSIST OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS”

Minister Kacır said that 95 percent of the products exported by Türkiye consist of industrial products and said, “If we can talk about export success today, there is a higher value-added production success of the industry behind it. 95 percent of the products exported by Türkiye consist of industrial products. The success achieved in all sectors of our industry, from automotive to machinery, from chemistry to food industry, has an enormous share in our ability to increase exports from 36 billion dollars to 274 billion dollars. Therefore, in fact, this is an ecosystem issue, a network.” “Of course, one of the most important elements of this is human resources. In order to make progress in the field of research and development, you must first invest in your human capital. Increasing Türkiye’s R&D human resources from 29 thousand to 311 thousand in 23 years is actually the most fundamental element that motivates and makes this whole success story possible,” he said.

“OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE OUR ENTERPRISE OFFICES INSTALLED IN ALL 81 CITIES THIS YEAR”

Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır said, “We increased the number of technoparks from 2 to 114. While only 56 companies were operating in our technoparks 23 years ago, today nearly 8,700 companies are doing research, development and innovation in Türkiye’s technoparks. Today, especially in the gaming industry, which is the main focus of this center, which has brought us together today, a few young people came together and founded it, and 20-30 young people are currently working in it. Technology startups that are still in the early stages of their business life can reach a billion dollar valuation. The more Turcorns we have, the stronger our entire ecosystem will become, with dozens and hundreds of startups to be born from each of them. With this understanding, we have implemented the Turcorn 100 program and are currently trying to grow our 39 technology startups with tailor-made supports to reach a billion dollar valuation. We have also taken steps to ensure that the private sector leads especially TEKMERs in this journey. “TEKMERs have become a complementary element of technoparks and R&D design centers in our enterprise ecosystem. We created the Go Enterprise Office model to standardize the supports and infrastructures we offer to the field of entrepreneurship in Türkiye, and our goal is to have our enterprise offices in all 81 cities this year.”

“WE MADE IT MUCH EASIER FOR CREATIVE IDEAS TO RESIDE AND WORK IN Türkiye AND WE ACHIEVED THE BRAIN DRAIN”

Minister Kacır stated that with the Turkey Tech Visa program, the residence and working processes of technology startups and individuals working in these companies have become much easier in Türkiye, and said, “The venture capital volume, which was 50 million dollars annually between 2011-2015 and 100 million dollars annually between 2016-2020, reached an average of 1.1 billion dollars in the last 5 years between 2021-2025. The annual venture capital investment volume in Türkiye is higher than the previous 5 years.” It has reached 11 times the size of the previous 5 years. We will expand this even further. With this program, we have made the residence and working processes in Türkiye for technology startups and individuals working in these companies much easier, which previously took more than 6 months. With this program, we can offer work and residence permits to the human resources who will work in startups in this ecosystem, including the startups here. “Nearly 5 thousand technology developers have moved to Turkey and they are now continuing their work in Turkey. We believe that attracting qualified human resources will provide significant advantages for Türkiye in this race,” he said.

“WE ARE ESTABLISHING THE WORLD’S LARGEST ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER IN ISTANBUL”

Stating that they established the world’s largest entrepreneurship center in Istanbul, Minister Kacır said, “We are establishing the world’s largest entrepreneurship center in Istanbul. We transformed the terminal buildings of Atatürk Airport into a technopark with the Terminal Istanbul brand. Now the world’s largest startup center, technology entrepreneurship center, is being established in the terminal buildings of Atatürk Airport. Hopefully, we will open the first phase of this in June and bring it to Istanbul. Then, at the end of the first year, we will open another large phase and within 2 years Atatürk Airport will open the largest entrepreneurship center in the world. Hopefully, we will have provided the entire airport terminal buildings to you, the technology entrepreneurs. I believe that this will again be an important step that will strengthen the interest in Turkish technology initiatives at the global level. In order to attract our young people to this journey from an early age, we will organize the world’s largest technology festivals, TEKNOFEST, and on the other hand, we will organize infrastructures such as Deneyap Technology Workshops all over Türkiye, attracting young people from the age of 11, who are interested in this field and have competence in this field, from city to city. “We will try to identify them town by town, village by village, include them in technology education programs and walk with them on this journey,” he said.

“WE ARE SECOND IN EUROPE IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF GAMING INITIATIVES”

Stating that they are in the second place in Europe in terms of the number of game enterprises, Minister Kacır said, “We strongly support the game sectors along with our other sectors. Our duty is to ensure that cluster infrastructures such as the StartGate single center here can provide services to game entrepreneurs in Türkiye and to allow the increase of financial resources in this field. As the Ministry, we will continue to take these steps. By supporting the cluster project and making this address the center of the cluster, the game cluster, we have actually demonstrated this approach. Hopefully, game initiatives will continue to increase in the coming period.” “We will achieve further growth in Türkiye, we are currently in the second place in Europe in terms of the number of game initiatives. Hopefully, together we will succeed in reaching the first place in Europe and increasing the number of Turkish games, which we are proud of with their success stories all over the world,” he said. After the speech, the enterprise center was opened with a gift presentation and a photo shoot. Then, Minister Kacır visited the center and received information from the authorities.

’95 PERCENT OF THE PRODUCTS EXPORTED BY Türkiye CONSIST OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS’

Pointing out that 95 percent of Türkiye’s exported products consist of industrial products, Minister Kacır said, “If we can talk about export success today, there is a higher value-added production success of the industry behind it. 95 percent of the products exported by Türkiye consist of industrial products. The success achieved in all sectors of our industry, from automotive to machinery, from chemistry to food industry, has an enormous share in our ability to increase exports from 36 billion dollars to 274 billion dollars. Therefore, in fact, this is an ecosystem issue, a network.” “Of course, one of the most important elements of this is human resources. In order to make progress in the field of research and development, you must first invest in your human capital. Increasing Türkiye’s R&D human resources from 29 thousand to 311 thousand in 23 years is actually the most fundamental element that motivates and makes this whole success story possible.”

‘TODAY, NEARLY 8,700 COMPANIES ARE CONDUCTING RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION IN Türkiye’S TECHNOPARKS’

Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır said, “We increased the number of technoparks from 2 to 114. While only 56 companies were operating in our technoparks 23 years ago, today nearly 8,700 companies are doing research, development and innovation in Türkiye’s technoparks. Today, especially in the gaming industry, which is the main focus of this center, which has brought us together today, a few young people came together and founded it, and 20-30 young people are currently working in it. Technology startups that are still in the early stages of their business life can reach a billion dollar valuation. The more Turcorns we have, the stronger our entire ecosystem will become, with dozens and hundreds of startups to be born from each of them. With this understanding, we have implemented the Turcorn 100 program and are currently trying to grow our 39 technology startups with tailor-made supports to reach a billion dollar valuation. We have also taken steps to ensure that the private sector leads especially TEKMERs in this journey. “TEKMERs have become a complementary element of technoparks and R&D design centers in our enterprise ecosystem. We created the Go Enterprise Office model to standardize the supports and infrastructures we offer to the field of entrepreneurship in Türkiye, and our goal is to have our enterprise offices in all 81 cities this year.”

‘ANNUAL VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT VOLUME IN Türkiye HAS REACHED 22 TIMES THE SIZE’

Minister Kacır said, “The volume of venture capital, which was 50 million dollars annually between 2011-2015 and 100 million dollars annually between 2016-2020, reached an average of 1.1 billion dollars in the last 5 years between 2021-2025. The annual venture capital investment volume in Türkiye has reached 11 times the size of the previous 5 years and 22 times the size of the previous 5 years. We will grow this further. Türkiye Tech Visa With this program, we have facilitated the residence and working processes of technology startups and individuals working in these companies in Türkiye, which previously took more than 6 months. In just 2 weeks, we can offer work and residence permits to the human resources that will work in the startups in this ecosystem. With this program, nearly 5 thousand technology developers have moved to Turkey so far; they are now continuing their work in Turkey. “We believe that this race will offer significant advantages for Türkiye,” he said.

The 152nd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will be held in Istanbul with a record participation of representatives of the world’s parliaments. The General Assembly, which will bring together approximately 80 parliamentary speakers, over 800 members of parliament and representatives of many international organizations, will allow parliamentarians to hold bilateral meetings during the turbulent period the world is going through and the search for peace.

Numan Kurtulmuş, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, who has started an intense diplomacy traffic on the margins of the General Assembly, is participating in the preparatory meetings within the scope of the General Assembly, while also holding bilateral meetings with the heads of parliament. In his meetings with his counterparts yesterday and today, Kurtulmuş discussed bilateral and inter-parliamentary relations, regional and global issues, and conveyed the contribution of Türkiye’s peaceful policies, which prioritize diplomacy in conflict and crisis regions, to the culture of reconciliation.

TBMM Speaker Kurtulmuş also noted that the countries in the region should be alert and prepared against tensions and great turbulence. Kurtulmuş met with the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Milton Dick, and the President of the Malawian National Assembly, Sameer Suleman, yesterday. Today, he will meet with the President of the Arab Parliament, Mohamed Ahmed Alyammahi, the President of the Egyptian House of Representatives, Hisham Badawy, the President of the Bahraini House of Representatives, Ahmed bin Salman Al Musalam, the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Federal National Council, Saqr Ghobash, the President of the Guyana National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, the President of the Niger Re-establishment Advisory Council, Mamoudou Haraouna Djingarey. Zambia National Assembly Speaker Nelly Butete met separately with Kashumba Mutti.

It is expected that the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Kurtulmuş, will hold many bilateral meetings on the margins of the 152nd General Assembly of the IPU, which will start tomorrow and last until April 19.

“EVERY INVESTMENT YOU MAKE IS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELFARE OF Türkiye AND KAZAKHSTAN”

Stating that Türkiye ranks 6th in Kazakhstan’s exports to the world and 7th in imports, Yılmaz stated that this ranking should be moved to the top 3.

In this regard, Yılmaz underlined the need to build a Turkish business ecosystem that goes beyond individual success stories, feeds each other, creates economies of scale and has high joint action capability, and said:

“In this context, our expectation from you is to further strengthen the ties within the Turkish business world, increase the sharing of knowledge and experience, and create synergy by developing joint projects, while being strongly integrated into the local economy in your country. As you know, this meeting is a family assembly beyond our official contacts. We expect you to sincerely share the difficulties you encounter, bureaucratic obstacles, solution suggestions and your vision for the future in this assembly. The notes and feedback we will receive from you today will constitute an important agenda item for us in the meetings we will have with our Kazakh counterparts tomorrow.” “Every investment and every project you carry out is a contribution to the welfare not only of you, but of both Türkiye and brotherly Kazakhstan.”

Emphasizing that they are aware of the problems experienced by lawyers, Gürlek stated that they are working on regulations that will both speed up the trial and provide financial support to lawyers. Stating that steps are continuing to increase the quality of entry into the legal profession, Gürlek said that the quality of the profession has been strengthened by making the exams more difficult and increasing the success ranking. Gürlek also announced that the scope of the e-Hearing application will be expanded and noted that it is planned to introduce the opportunity to participate in preliminary examination hearings online with the 12th Judicial Package.

Minister of Justice Gürlek received the Turkish Law Institute delegation at the Ministry. Underlining that the Turkish Law Institute is an institution with roots, history and traditions, Minister Gürlek said, “Hopefully, we will work together. Your ideas and work plans are important to us. As you know, we have now made a reform strategy and a reform move in the judiciary. We are considering taking some more important steps, especially regarding the problems of the judiciary and accelerating the judiciary.” he said.

“WE WANT TO HELP OUR LAWYERS”

Emphasizing that they know very well the problems that lawyers have been experiencing lately, Minister Gürlek said: “We are the family of justice. We have 209 thousand lawyers, 212 thousand judges, prosecutors and courthouse personnel in this family of justice. We all need to work together here. We know very well the problems that our lawyers have been experiencing lately. With the packages we will organize, we want to both speed up the civil trial and, in a sense, benefit our lawyers financially.” Minister Gürlek stated that the legal profession is a high-quality, qualified and elite profession all over the world.

“QUALITY INCREASED IN THE LAW PROFESSION ENTRANCE EXAM”

Stating that the quality of the entrance exams for the legal profession has increased, Minister Gürlek said, “As you know, the entrance exam for the legal profession has been held. It is a bit difficult. Yes, the thresholds are high, but this definitely requires this profession to become a qualified and elite profession.” he said.

“WE KNOW THE PROBLEMS OF OUR LAWYERS”

Minister Gürlek stated that the success ranking for admission to law faculties was reduced from 125 thousand to 100 thousand, and that they wanted to reduce this number even further. Minister Gürlek emphasized that the legal profession is an elite profession. Stating that the position of defense is sacred, Minister Gürlek said, “If three pillars work together, success will be achieved in the judiciary. Of course, we know the problems of our lawyers here. We also know the problems they face in the court offices in practice.” he said.

MORE EFFECTIVE JUDICIAL PROCESSES WITH E-HEARING

Minister Gürlek stated that the e-Hearing application, which makes judicial processes more effective and faster, is used significantly, especially in civil cases, and noted that they are considering expanding the scope of e-Hearing. Minister Gürlek said that they are planning to introduce the opportunity to attend the preliminary examination hearing via e-hearing in the 12th Judicial Package.