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On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-AI" call, a USD 1.6 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology- investment-programme`), targeting large-scale IT investments delivering AI services, managed/self-service cloud offerings, and AI-hardware buildouts of at least USD 100 million. The call bundles multiple instruments — tax reduction up to 60%, capex grants up to 40% (with an additional up to 20% grant specifically for AI-hardware investment), concessional financing up to 70%, employment support, and market-development support up to 20% — and was announced alongside a parallel USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call, a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call, and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call. Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır framed the combined package as designed to mobilise USD 10 billion in data-centre and AI investment by 2030, lifting national data-centre capacity from 250 MW to 1 GW.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Data Centre" call, a USD 1.5 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), targeting data-centre facilities of at least 30 MW IT capacity with at least 50% AI-compatible hardware and a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.4 or lower. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call, and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call — and offers the same tax, grant, financing, employment, and market-development instrument stack used across the HIT-30 programme. Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as two separate "interventions" (tax/social insurance relief and unspecified state aid) under state act 95013.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Industrial Robot" call, a USD 1 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), targeting manufacturers that commit to a minimum annual production capacity of 5,000 industrial robots and localisation of critical components (servo motors, reducers/gearboxes, servo drives), plus supporting R&D-centre buildout. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-data-centre-call`), and a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call — and offers the same tax, grant, financing, employment, and market-development instrument stack used across the HIT-30 programme. Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as two separate "interventions" (state loan and tax/social-insurance relief) under state act 95018.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Quantum" call, a USD 300 million support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), aimed at building high-capacity infrastructure for quantum computing services, a scalable quantum hardware/software ecosystem for research centres, universities and the private sector, and skilled-workforce development. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-data-centre-call`), and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-industrial-robot-call`). Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as three separate "interventions" (financial grant, state loan, and tax/social-insurance relief) under state act 95017.

On 8 August 2025, Türk Eximbank — Turkey's state export credit agency — secured a USD 145 million, three-year murabaha (Islamic finance) syndication facility coordinated by the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private-sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group. Three Gulf-region Islamic banks (Warba Bank, Kuwait International Bank, and AlRayan Bank) participated in the syndication. The facility is on-lent to Türk Eximbank's participation (interest-free) banking window to fund export-oriented Turkish businesses across all sectors, and is logged by Global Trade Alert as a state export-financing intervention.

KfW IPEX-Bank, the project- and export-finance arm of Germany's state-owned development bank KfW, announced on 17 July 2025 that it is acting as sole lender for a EUR 69 million financing package for two onshore wind farms (126 MW combined) developed by Turkish independent power producer Eksim Enerji in the Karaman and Yozgat regions, under Türkiye's YEKA-3 renewable-energy auction. The 18 wind turbines are supplied and installed by German manufacturer Nordex, and the loan is covered by the German government via export credit agency Euler Hermes. Global Trade Alert separately logs the transaction as an "amber"-flagged local-value-added-incentive intervention (state act 92701 / intervention 147849).