Türkiye HIT-Quantum Call — USD 300m quantum-computing investment support tranche under HIT-30 (Ministry of Industry and Technology)

Mechanism

HIT-Quantum is one of four sector-specific "çağrı" (calls for applications) opened under the HIT-30 umbrella programme in October 2025 — alongside HIT-AI (USD 1.6bn), HIT-Data Centre (USD 1.5bn) and HIT-Industrial Robot (USD 1bn). Each call operationalises a slice of HIT-30's original USD 30bn 2024-2030 envelope against sector-specific eligibility criteria rather than opening the programme's tax/grant/financing toolkit generically.

Unlike the sibling EV (USD 5bn), Battery (USD 4.5bn) and Chip (USD 5bn) tranches on the same Ministry calls page, HIT-Quantum's own page does not itemise a numeric eligibility threshold (e.g., a minimum capacity or production-scale floor) — it states strategic objectives only: building "high-capacity infrastructures capable of providing quantum computing services," a scalable quantum hardware/software ecosystem serving research centres, universities, and private-sector users, and development of value-added solutions plus a skilled workforce. The USD 300 million funding figure and the financial-grant / state-loan / tax-relief instrument mix come from Global Trade Alert's state-act record (95017), not from the Ministry's own page, which omits monetary detail for this specific call.

GTA logs this single government call as three separate "interventions" (financial grant; state loan; tax or social insurance relief) under one state act (95017) because its instrument stack spans multiple GTA intervention-type categories — they are one underlying state action, not three.

Downstream implications

• Smallest of the four October 2025 HIT-30 sector calls: at USD 300m,

HIT-Quantum is roughly a fifth the size of HIT-Industrial Robot (USD 1bn) and a twentieth of the combined HIT-AI/HIT-Data Centre tranche (USD 3.1bn combined) — signalling Türkiye is treating quantum as an early-stage ecosystem-seeding bet rather than a near-term industrial-scale commitment, consistent with the absence of concrete eligibility thresholds on the Ministry's own calls page.

• **Extends HIT-30's high-tech diversification beyond AI/compute/EV/battery

verticals into frontier/dual-use technology:** quantum computing sits alongside AI as a strategic-autonomy priority for OECD and non-OECD governments alike (cf. US DOE's USD 625m National Quantum Information Science Research Centers programme, 2025-11-04-us-doe-625m-national- quantum-information-science-research-centers, and France's quantum export-control regime, 2024-02-02-france-arrete-export-control-quantum- electronics), positioning Türkiye as a smaller but active entrant in the quantum-sovereignty race.

• Severity 2 (quant basis): USD 300m is a real, disclosed monetary

commitment (hence quant, not qual) but the smallest of the four sibling HIT-30 sector calls and under 1% of the USD 30bn HIT-30 envelope; rated below the HIT-Industrial Robot (severity 3) and HIT-AI/HIT-Data Centre (severity 3 each) sibling filings given both the smaller absolute sum and the lack of stated eligibility thresholds indicating a less mature, earlier-stage programme.

Open questions

• Official Resmi Gazete / Cumhurbaşkanı Kararı reference: the Ministry's

own hit30.sanayi.gov.tr/cagrilar page lists the HIT-Quantum call but does not surface a gazette/decree number; confirm via a future amendment if the formal legal instrument is published separately.

• Eligibility thresholds and instrument caps: unlike sibling calls (e.g.

HIT-AI's stated 60%/40%/70% support caps, HIT-Industrial Robot's 5,000- unit/year floor), the Ministry's page gives no numeric eligibility criteria for HIT-Quantum; watch for a future call-specific annex.

• Award register: as with the parent HIT-30 entry and sibling calls, no

public register of which applicants/projects have been approved under HIT-Quantum has been identified; watch for disclosures once the call closes.