I cant believe that even Erdogan has noticed the flaw in Kilicdaroglu's sale to establish a space center in Ataturk airport by SNC
just like I and
@dBSPL have said before, such projects are done away from the cities
So does SNC not know the implications of such project in an area where nearky 15 million turks live? They do ofcourse since it is a reputable company but I am 100% sure it will be used for other purposes and not whatever kilicdaroglu promised
Translation:
It is committed to giving our airport, which hosts TEKNOFEST, where National Technology Projects are exhibited, to an American company. If by space work is meant a launch center, where 16 million live, it's a disaster to even think about it. Such facilities are established outside the city.
I think Kılıçdaroğlu is very enthusiastic about these issues, but he lacks the staff around him who can assist him well. So this was nothing more than incoherent, airy, cheap populism, to use the example of Atatürk airport.
In Kazan, Ankara, the largest organized industrial zone in Europe, specialized in space technologies and aviation and consisting of a 750-hectare first part, is rising. At the heart of this zone are foundation companies, especially TAI. In addition to dozens of institutions, it is a complete ecosystem consisting of a center of excellence for the aerospace industry, an incubation center for new initiatives, a cooperation center for export and business development, SSB-SME-SASAD coordination, and educational institutions for training intermediate staff. One of the OIZs/industrial zones where the heart of the Turkish defense industry will be located in the next decade, and perhaps one of the two most important ones. Moreover, it is precisely the kind of infrastructure and industrial organization that can realize the goal that Kılıçdaroğlu dreams of.
In other words, if there were someone who could really assist KK on this issue, perhaps with the support of mayor Yavaş, they could prepare a project to establish another space technologies OIZ adjacent to Kazan, this time with newcomer offices, incubation centers and even state-private joint ventures of companies owned by Turkish entrepreneurs who are successful in their field in the world.
SNC has dozens of US organizations, suppliers and universities with which it has an articulated business model. And more importantly, many of these projects are funded under government auspices, such as the Department of Defense. Your moving SNC here on your own (which is not possible pratically) will not make a dramatic difference in terms of the local contribution share of the work to be carried out here. What is important is an approach that addresses the entire ecosystem that will produce these technologies. This is precisely why the previous regional passenger aircraft project with SNC fell through. It could not guarantee the desired localization rate and proposed a US-centered production function. SNC may well be able to carry out the final assembly of some aircraft here, but it is debatable whether this is a great promise given the current state of our aerospace industry. If we were in the 80s, this would have been a big deal.
