Ayca Yildirim

SSM - Savunma Sanayii Mustesarligi / Undersecretariat for Defense Industries

Law No:3238 ratified by the Turkish Parliament in 1985, established an institution capable of generating long term defence policies and principles, and supplementing them with a continuous flow of financial resources. The organization founded to fulfill these functions is the Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB), assigned with the major task to constitute a modern defence industry in Turkey and to achieve the modernization of the Turkish Armed Forces. In order to attain this objective, the main principle applied by SSM is to meet military requirements through domestic suppliers in the most technically and economically feasible way possible. SSM now has managing more than 200 majoır defense program for Turkish Armed Forces, Pollice, Inteligence Agency and some Governmental Organizations including but not limited to Forestry, Border Protectiıon and Mining Agencies