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Tarih: Issue 62 - June 2015

Defence Turkey: Mr. Muharrem  Dörtkaşlı, first of all we would like to thank you for your time. TAI had a very efficient 2014.  Could you please briefly evaluate 2014 for our magazine? 

The most significant highlight of 2014 was the fact that TAI’s turnover exceeded 1 billion USD. Becoming a billion dollar company was a threshold for us and we achieved this goal.   These figures stood somewhere between $80-90 million when we embarked on our activities as TAI. We have always been confident in our capacity, yet it was of great importance to us to turn this into a concrete figure to demonstrate vis-a-vis both the sector and our shareholders. A few years ago, we made statements on various platforms regarding TAI’s goal of increasing its turnover to the level of billions in dollars.  Today, we mention 2 billion US dollars for 2020s and 2,5 billion dollars for year 2023. Certainly, before such targets are reached, people adopt a wait-and-see approach. This was the case when the target of 1 billion dollars was set, but we managed to reach it. Therefore, we are pleased in this respect. 2014 was a lucrative year. The realizations in a number of projects were gratifying. I can safely say that as a company, we have had good results this year in commercial terms.