Türkiye’s AI Vision and Action Plan for the 2026–2030 Period Unveiled
Türkiye unveiled its ‘‘AI Vision and Action Plan’’, covering the 2026-2030 period, at the Türkiye Artificial Intelligence Summit held in Istanbul. At the summit, attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, and Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Erdoğan presented a comprehensive roadmap aimed at positioning Türkiye among the leading countries in artificial intelligence. The AI Action Plan, which forms the country’s roadmap for the new period, is built around four main pillars: Discover, Benefit, Produce and Govern.
Under the first pillar “Discover” the plan aims to launch an AI literacy program reaching 5 million citizens within two years, along with a National Data Library that will open at least 2,000 public datasets to researchers. The plan also calls for training 10,000 advanced AI specialists and 100,000 AI application professionals.
The second pillar ‘‘Benefit” involves integrating AI across public services, industry, education, healthcare, agriculture, and security. Data center capacity is to be raised to at least 1 gigawatt (GW) by 2030, and at least 2% of public investment will be allocated to AI projects.
Under the third pillar ‘‘Produce” Erdoğan announced that AI growth zones would be established, backed by national research and growth funds. Reiterating the goal of developing a domestic large language model (LLM), he pointed to the work of TÜBİTAK, initiatives run by the T3 Foundation in collaboration with Baykar, and HAVELSAN’s 9-billion-parameter model.
The fourth and final pillar ‘‘Govern” will mobilize at least $10 billion in infrastructure investment, primarily from the private sector. International investors will be offered a single-window roadmap within 30 business days, and Istanbul will be positioned as Türkiye’s international showcase and investment diplomacy hub for AI. Türkiye also pledged to contribute to the development of human-centered AI standards within the OECD, G20, and United Nations platforms.