In 2025, Türkiye’s defence and aerospace industry reached a historic high with $10.56 billion in products and services exported. This was the biggest amount ever recorded by the sector.
In 2025, Türkiye’s military and aerospace industry set a new record for exports, with sales of products and services to other countries reaching $10.56 billion. This put the sector firmly in the league of big global defence exporters.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated at an export ceremony that the defence and aviation sector brought in $9.87 billion in goods exports this year. The overall value went over $10 billion for the first time when services exports were added.
According to official figures, weapons and ammunition accounted for $4.7 billion of total exports, reflecting sustained international demand for Türkiye’s domestically developed defence products across multiple domains.
President Erdoğan said the latest figures confirmed Türkiye’s transformation into a globally competitive defence supplier. Referring to recent developments, he highlighted the HÜRJET procurement agreement signed with Spain as a concrete example of Türkiye’s growing footprint in advanced aviation programmes.
“Türkiye is now a country with a global voice in this field,” Erdoğan said. “Our defence exports, which stood at $248 million in 2002, have increased nearly fortyfold to reach $9.87 billion in 2025.”
Providing further details, Secretary of the Secretariat of Defence Industries Haluk Görgün said the $10.56 billion figure demonstrated that Türkiye had entered a new phase in defence exports.
“Last year, our defence and aerospace exports of goods and services exceeded $10 billion, reaching $10.56 billion,” Görgün said. “This shows that Türkiye is now among countries capable of sustaining double-digit billion-dollar defence exports.”
Görgün said that in addition to exports, the industry also inked $17.8 billion worth of new sales contracts in 2025, which was a big jump from the year before. In 2024, the defence and aerospace industries sold $7.1 billion worth of goods and services, and signed new contracts worth $10 billion.
He stated, “When you look at the numbers, exports went up from $7.1 billion to more than $10 billion, which is almost a 49 percent increase.” “New sales contracts went up from $10 billion to $17.8 billion, which is a growth of about 78 to 80 percent.”
Görgün further pointed out that the sector’s part of Türkiye’s total exports is growing. In 2022, defence and aerospace exports made up 1.7% of all exports from the country. Now, that number has risen to 3.66%, which is over double what it was three years before.
In terms of markets, export patterns remained largely unchanged. Görgün said 56 percent of Türkiye’s defence and aerospace exports in 2025 were delivered to the European Union, NATO countries and the United States, slightly up from the previous year.
The record figures highlight the steady shift of Türkiye’s defence industry from a regional supplier to a global exporter, supported by indigenous platforms, long-term contracts and growing demand from allied markets.