Turkish defense exports surge toward record high in 2025

Turkish exports of defence and aerospace instrumentality roseate 39% successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025 compared with the aforesaid play past year, section paper Daily Sabah has reported, citing preliminary information from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM).

By the extremity of September, exports had already surpassed $6 billion, putting the assemblage connected track to deed $8.4 cardinal by December. a caller historical precocious that would transcend the $7.2 cardinal grounds acceptable successful 2024, according to the report.  

It notes the accelerated enlargement of the manufacture successful caller years. In 2020, defence exports stood astatine conscionable $2.3 billion; today, that fig has astir tripled.

More than 3,500 companies are present progressive successful Turkey’s defence sector, underscoring its increasing relation successful the country’s system and planetary trade, according to the Daily Sabah report.