Erdoğan meets Musk amid local car efforts

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a meeting with world-leading Silicon Valley technology and research entrepreneur Elon Musk on Nov. 8, a few days after the launch of a joint venture to produce the country’s first domestically-made car.

Musk, founder of world-leading technology companies SpaceX, Tesla Inc., Nuralink and SolarCity, met with Erdoğan on Nov. 8 at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.

The meeting was attended by Erdoğan’s chief aides, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Faruk Özlü and Transportation, Maritime and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan.

Apart from well-known electric car production company Tesla, Musk is also known for his “moon shoot” projects focusing on renewable energy, new-age lithium batteries, artificial intelligence, space travel and reusable rockets.

The meeting came a few days after Turkey launched a joint venture of five local industrial giants to produce its first domestically-made car on Nov. 2.
Five suppliers - Anadolu Group, BMC, Kıraça Holding, Turkcell, and Zorlu Holding - will jointly manufacture Turkey’s first indigenous car.

source: Hürriyet Daily News

08.11.2017

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