Turkey's national AI strategy, regulatory landscape, and why sovereign AI matters for Turkish organisations.
Turkey's National AI Strategy 2021–2025 targets 50,000 AI professionals, ₺500M R&D investment, and AI integration in 10 strategic sectors. The strategy explicitly mandates "domestic and national AI infrastructure" — sovereign AI is government policy, not just market preference.
KVKK (Law 6698) prohibits cross-border transfer of personal data without adequate safeguards. BDDK (Banking Regulation) requires financial data to remain in Turkey. EPDK (Energy Markets) mandates on-premise AI for critical infrastructure. These regulations make sovereign AI a legal necessity for regulated industries.
Over-reliance on foreign AI APIs creates three strategic risks: (1) service discontinuation risk — a vendor can shut down or geo-restrict access, (2) data exposure — your business logic and customer data flows through foreign systems, (3) capability asymmetry — Turkish AI capabilities fall behind if domestic models are not developed.
Kolayla bridges the gap: we deliver production-ready AI on Turkish infrastructure, fine-tuned on Turkish data, compliant with Turkish law. Our sovereign AI stack lets Turkish organisations move fast without sacrificing data control or regulatory standing. We are the AI delivery layer for Turkish digital sovereignty.
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