This has been spoken by higher ups 10 years ago, there has been attempts of removing or transferring some of the shipyards to a location on the Black Sea coast. For the military this was the reason of trying to elavate Alaybey Shipyard in Izmir as a back up to Pendik Shipyard.I dont like the fact that a lot of our shipyards are located in and around Istanbul.
In case of war we should have backups somewhere safer, i.e. Antalya and Hatay. What do you think, Mr. Navy aka @Anmdt?
Both Golcuk and Pendik Shipyards do need a backup, not the submarine construction only but Golcuk Shipyard also carries out modernizations and overhauls of combatants.
That's how Izmit Gulf shipyards has risen as well, but still in close proximity to the threats (environmental included).
Thinking through 60 years ago's logic, location of current major naval shipyards are well protected but the threats have not remained the same, so we need a change soon. They have been organizing a back up scheme for major naval shipyards at least to maintain fleet independently of a single shipyard.
As per the commercial shipyards it remains more complex, we have yacht industry in Antalya but all of those exists with ecosystem. And it is challenging to build an infastructure, ecosystem and population from scratch.
Given the current challenges of economical situation in Istanbul, i am pretty sure most of the workers would have moved to another city ( which is somewhere quieter than Antalya ofcourse ) willingly, and i see no reason for ecosystem to move as well. This all should be organised by the state. They have attempted it before, but failed. Though the reason to attempt wasn't because they cared about shipyards strategically but the land is too precious and they have been planning to construct buildings in Pendik Naval Shipyard and Tuzla commercial shipyards district.