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According to TUBISAD data, the information and communication technologies (IT) sector reached TL 152.7 billion in 2019, registering a 14% growth compared to the previous year on a TL basis.

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İSTANBUL (TR) - In the age of technology, countries' competencies in information technologies play a determining role in their position as strong global players. Turkey continues to develop itself in this area. According to TÜBİSAD data, the information and communication technologies (IT) sector grew by 14% in 2019 compared to the previous year, reaching 152.7 billion TL. While the export of the sector was realized as 6.5 billion TL, the software had the biggest share in information technologies with a volume of 23.4 billion TL. While it is estimated that this growth momentum increased further in 2020 with the effect of the digital transformation accelerated with the pandemic, it is predicted that indigenization in software will be decisive in 2021 in terms of increasing the power of Turkey in the international arena. Evaluating this potential, Bilişim A.Ş. Founder Prof. Dr. Aydın Köksal said, “As much as it is necessary for powerful countries aiming to protect their independence in the 21st century to have their own defense industries; It is an indisputable fact of the new digital age that we are living in that this can only be achieved by having the power of local and national software equipped with the most advanced technology.”

“Localization in software can make Turkey a representative of modern civilization”

Stating that he had spend 50 years as an engineer and entrepreneur throughout his career with local and national infrastructure to be a software power and industrial software products provide labor towards development in Turkey, Prof. Dr. Köksal Aydin noted that there are very few countries on earth with this knowledge. Köksal said, “Software systems, as highly variable intellectual-fictional systems that can be adapted to any situation, are the most complex industrial products that human beings can design and produce. The software that makes the computer hardware functional creates a standard that proves this functionality in the contemporary civilization stage we are in, and turns into a culture or culture accumulation produced by the creative power of human beings. We can also use our local and national software systems knowledge as a tool for our country to rise to the status of "representative of modern civilization.”

“We will continue to be on the radar of global players like Boeing”

Mentioning that Bilişim A.Ş., which he founded, has pioneered the sector with approximately 250 projects since 1985, Prof. Dr. Köksal said, “We have equipped many public - private, military - civil, industrial - service institutions, including ministries, banks and universities, especially the iron and steel, casting, aviation and space industries in the machinery and automotive industry, with superior software power for 35 years. We achieved significant success with our registered brands such as our corporate resource planning software BilişimERP, our business intelligence software BilişimBI, and our human resources software BilişimHR. It is no coincidence that our BilişimERP product has been included in the supplier list of the US aviation and space company Boeing, due to the success of one of our customers from the composite casting industry. We will continue to be on the radar of global players while remaining loyal to our responsibility to remain a fully Turkish-owned domestic and national company in the future.”