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Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Technology: What It Does

What Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology does, who heads it, and two bodies under it a foreigner may meet: TÜRKPATENT and KOSGEB.

ByHatice Kulali
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A tall office block with a grid of windows and a pink sign reading T.C. Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı along its roof edge, seen from the street across a gate, a large dark screen and a tree
The building of the Ministry of Industry and Technology in Ankara, with its name along the roof edge. Photo: Modern primat, August 2022, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.

Türkiye’s Ministry of Industry and Technology (Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı) drafts industry and technology policy, plans land for industrial zones, runs investment-incentive applications and coordinates regional development, as an audit report outlines its duties. Mehmet Fatih Kacır is the minister, as the Presidency’s cabinet page lists him (checked 08.11.2026).

In short · checked 08.11.2026

A ministry with two bodies around it that a foreigner may meet. This is what each does, from its own pages.

  • Trade marks: the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) registers patents, trade marks, designs and geographical indications. Its 2026 fees and a notice dated 16.09.2026 are below.
  • Business support: the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB) runs support programmes. Three items of one programme are below, as its page prints them.
  • The ministry: its duties as the audit report outlines them, its units and the bodies around it.
  • Not covered: the ministry’s own address and phone lines, and product standards (TSE). Their sites were not used for this page.

What the ministry does its duties, as an audit report outlines them

The Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts) audit report for 2024, dated September 2025, outlines the ministry’s duties under Presidential Decree No. 1, in force since 10 July 2018. The outline has sixteen points. The one on space and aviation is left out here; the rest come in nine groups.

Industry

Industry policy

Draft policy proposals and strategies for industry, follow how they are carried out, and coordinate public bodies so that home production and technological skills grow.

Technology

National Technology Move

Set the aims, focus areas and road maps of the programme, which the report describes as aiming at critical high-value products made with national means and at high-technology products made at home, and take the measures that carry it out.

Milli Teknoloji Hamlesi

Technology

Science and digital

Work with the bodies concerned on science, technology and innovation policy. Draft proposals for research and production skills in fields such as big data, artificial intelligence and cyber security, and for the digital change of people and businesses.

Industry

Productivity

Draft productivity policies and strategies, work to raise the productivity of industrial firms, and support clean-production and productivity projects.

Land

Industrial land

Work out usable investment land for organised industrial zones, industrial zones, technology development zones, free zones and industrial estates, and give an opinion on industrial areas in spatial and environmental plans.

Land

Zones and estates

Do the tasks the law gives on planning, founding, building and running organised industrial zones and industrial zones, and support them and the industrial estates with loans as the law sets.

Measurement

Metrology

Draft policy and strategy for scientific, industrial and legal metrology, and make the rules on calibration, inspection, certification and verification.

Investment

Incentives and foreign investment

Prepare the rules that investment incentives need, run, follow and assess incentive applications, and help set policy on foreign direct investment.

Regions

Regional development

Draft regional development policies and programmes, follow and inspect them, and coordinate and inspect the development agencies and the regional development administrations. Also carry out global, national and regional research.

A concrete gate arch over the entrance of an industrial zone with the words Organize Sanayi Bölgesi along its top, a guard hut under it, a blue arrow sign and a red stop sign at the right and a green wooded hill behind
The entrance of the İskenderun organised industrial zone (organize sanayi bölgesi): an arch lettered with its name, a guard hut and a wooded hill behind. Photo: Sabri76, 16.05.2010, Wikimedia Commons; public domain, file page.
A tall blue glass office building behind a plane tree at the end of a campus road, with a white bus and a dark car on the left, low buildings on both sides and green leaves in the top corner
A glass office building on the Beytepe campus of Hacettepe University in Ankara. The file’s title and category place it in the Hacettepe Teknokent. The audit report names technology development zones (teknoloji geliştirme bölgeleri) among the zones the ministry plans land for. Photo: Gargarapalvin, 06.07.2020, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.
A small flat-roofed gatehouse beside a road with a lowered barrier arm, orange traffic cones and bare trees
The gate of the Teknokent on the Ayazağa campus of İstanbul Technical University, as the file’s title names it. Photo: Dikkülah, 24.02.2025, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.

Who runs it and how it is built the minister, 81 provincial offices, 17 units

Mehmet Fatih Kacır is the Minister of Industry and Technology (Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanı) on the Presidency’s cabinet page, checked 08.11.2026. The page prints no date.

Under the decree the ministry has a head office, provincial offices and bodies around it. It has an Industry and Technology provincial directorate (Sanayi ve Teknoloji İl Müdürlüğü) in each of 81 provinces. The report lists 17 service units. Nine are general directorates (genel müdürlük) for one subject each:

Industry
Sanayi Genel Müdürlüğü
National Technology
Milli Teknoloji Genel Müdürlüğü
Strategic Research and Productivity
Stratejik Araştırmalar ve Verimlilik Genel Müdürlüğü
R&D Incentives
Ar-Ge Teşvikleri Genel Müdürlüğü
Industrial Zones
Sanayi Bölgeleri Genel Müdürlüğü
Metrology and Industrial Product Safety
Metroloji ve Sanayi Ürünleri Güvenliği Genel Müdürlüğü
Incentive Implementation and Foreign Capital
Teşvik Uygulama ve Yabancı Sermaye Genel Müdürlüğü
Development Agencies
Kalkınma Ajansları Genel Müdürlüğü
European Union and Foreign Relations
Avrupa Birliği ve Dış İlişkiler Genel Müdürlüğü

The other eight run the house: legal services, administration, guidance and inspection, strategy development, internal audit, information technology, press and public relations, and the private office.

A tall blue glass office tower with the TÜBİTAK name sign over its entrance and a pale stone tower beside it
The TÜBİTAK building in Ankara. The audit report lists the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) among the bodies related to the ministry. Photo: Zemxer, 08.08.2025, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.

Bodies around the ministry

Attached (bağlı)
TÜRKPATENT; the regional development administrations (Bölge Kalkınma İdaresi Başkanlıkları)
Coordinated
The development agencies (Kalkınma Ajansları)
Related (ilgili)
KOSGEB; the Turkish Standards Institute (TSE, Türk Standartları Enstitüsü); the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi); the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kuruluşu); the Türkiye Space Agency (Türkiye Uzay Ajansı)

TÜRKPATENT and KOSGEB have their own chapters below.

TÜRKPATENT trade marks, patents and place names

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT, Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu) is attached to the ministry. It registers patents, utility models (faydalı model), trade marks (marka), geographical indications, traditional product names, designs and integrated-circuit topographies, and handles the steps that protect those rights. It also records licences and transfers.

A brown stone building with a red cylinder tower beside it, the sign Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu along its roof line and pink-blossom trees in front
The TÜRKPATENT building; its sign reads Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu. Photo: Kainat77, 05.06.2020, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0, file page.

The agency defines a trade mark as any sign that sets one business’s goods or services apart from another’s, as long as it can be shown in the register so that what is protected is clear. The definition names words, including personal names, shapes, colours, letters, numbers, sounds, and the shape of goods or their packaging. Six kinds of sign, and what the agency asks you to hand in for each:

Kind of sign

Words, letters and numbers

Named in the definition

Words, including personal names, letters and numbers are all signs the definition names.

Kind of sign

Shapes and figures

Named in the definition

Shapes are named in the same definition. The next four kinds have their own notes on what to hand in.

Kind of sign

Colour

Hand in the colour and its code

An image of the colour and a colour code the agency accepts. A colour used inside a shape, figure, picture or word is not judged as a colour mark.

Kind of sign

Sound

Hand in a recording

A recording that can be listened to and stored. Musical notation is not required, but may be added where it is possible. One recording per application.

Kind of sign

Three dimensions

Hand in views

Views of the sign from one angle or several, at most six, that do not break up the mark’s wholeness. The definition also names the shape of goods or of their packaging.

Kind of sign

Movement

Hand in the movement

An image that shows the movement, or a still or moving series of images, that does not break up the mark’s wholeness.

Names of places and traditional products are registered separately. The agency defines four terms:

Geographical indication (coğrafi işaret)

A quality mark for consumers that shows where a product comes from, its characteristics and how they link to the area. Food, farm produce, minerals, handicrafts and industrial products can be registered. It is registered as a designation of origin or an indication of source.

Designation of origin (menşe adı)

For a product whose whole or main qualities come from the natural and human factors of one area. Production, processing and every other step are required to take place inside that area.

Indication of source (mahreç işareti)

For a product tied to an area by a quality, a reputation or another feature, where at least one of production, processing and the other steps takes place inside the area.

Traditional product name (geleneksel ürün adı)

A name proven to have been used for at least thirty years in the market to describe a product that falls under neither kind above, and that comes from a traditional method or composition or from traditional raw material.

2026 fee table, in Turkish lira (account-numbers page), checked 08.11.2026

Single-class application
2,820.00 TL
Second class, added to an application
2,820.00 TL
Registration
7,010.00 TL
Renewal, up to two classes
8,730.00 TL

The agency lists 316 industrial-property advisory units (Sınai Mülkiyet Danışma Birimi): 81 in the ministry’s provincial directorates, 131 in universities, 77 in chambers of commerce and industry, 24 in development agencies, and one each in a technology development zone, an organised industrial zone and a foundation. The list gives counts only.

A call, a letter or a web page in the agency’s name its notice of 16.09.2026

On 16 September 2026 TÜRKPATENT published a notice to the public about callers, letters and web pages that use its name. The desk below sets out its answers, one pick at a time.

TÜRKPATENT announcement, 16.09.2026 · checked 08.11.2026

The call desk

A drawn desk. Pick what reached you: a call, a letter, a web page, an agent or a complaint. The slip gives the agency’s answer from its announcement, and one question in Turkish to ask on its call line, with its meaning. Nothing is sent from this desk.

  1. Phone callA phone call about your file or a fee

    Reached you
    The announcement reports complaints about people who call themselves trade-mark or patent agents and phone applicants and owners of registrations.
    The agency’s answer
    TÜRKPATENT never calls an applicant to ask for a fee or to give information. It communicates by formal correspondence.
    Check
    The agency’s call line, (0312) 303 1 303, can confirm the status of your file and whether a requested fee is real.

    A question to ask on the call line (written for this page, not the agency’s words)

    Bu ödeme talebi Kurumunuzdan mı geliyor?Does this payment request come from your agency?

    TÜRKPATENT announcement, 16.09.2026

  2. LetterA letter or an invoice-like notice

    Reached you
    The announcement reports complaints about letters that give the impression of coming from TÜRKPATENT and ask for various fees, and about invoice-like notices.
    The agency’s answer
    The agency’s call centre can confirm the status of your file and whether the fee asked for is real, and can give information on the request you received.
    Check
    If an agent represents you, you can call that agent to confirm that the fee is real.

    A question to ask on the call line (written for this page, not the agency’s words)

    Dosyamın durumu nedir ve talep edilen ücret gerçek mi?What is the status of my file, and is the requested fee real?

    TÜRKPATENT announcement, 16.09.2026

  3. Web pageA web page that asks for payment

    Reached you
    The announcement reports pages that copy the agency’s name, logo and application-system design and ask for payment under names such as harç (fee) or tescil bedeli (registration fee).
    The agency’s answer
    The agency’s only website is www.turkpatent.gov.tr. Sites that give the impression of being its own, with endings such as .com or .org, are not to be trusted. No payment goes to a site that asks in its name, and no personal, e-Devlet (the state’s online services portal), bank or card details go into a suspect site.
    Check
    Before you act or pay, check whether the address belongs to www.turkpatent.gov.tr, the one in the bar of the drawing.

    A question to ask on the call line (written for this page, not the agency’s words)

    Bu internet sitesi Kurumunuza mı ait?Does this website belong to your agency?

    TÜRKPATENT announcement, 16.09.2026

  4. AgentSomeone who says they are a trade-mark or patent agent

    Reached you
    A person who introduces themselves as a trade-mark agent (marka vekili) or patent agent (patent vekili).
    The agency’s answer
    Agents on the agents’ register (Marka ve Patent Vekilleri sicili) are not agency staff, and TÜRKPATENT refers no file to any trade-mark or patent agent.
    Check
    The agency keeps a search of its agents’ register on its site (named here, not linked).

    A question to ask on the call line (written for this page, not the agency’s words)

    Kurumunuz dosyamı bir marka vekiline yönlendirdi mi?Did your agency refer my file to a trade-mark agent?

    TÜRKPATENT announcement, 16.09.2026

  5. ComplaintA complaint about an agent

    Reached you
    You think an agent has acted against the rules of the profession.
    The agency’s answer
    Complaints about an agent thought to act against the professional rules go to the Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys’ Disciplinary Board (Patent ve Marka Vekilleri Disiplin Kurulu) through EPATS, an electronic system. The agency’s page of the rules is titled Vekillik Meslek Kuralları (the agents’ professional rules; named here, not linked).
    Check
    The call line, (0312) 303 1 303, answers questions about suspect people, notices or websites.

    A question to ask on the call line (written for this page, not the agency’s words)

    Vekiller için disiplin şikâyeti nasıl yapılır?How is a disciplinary complaint about an agent made?

    TÜRKPATENT announcement, 16.09.2026

Three points of the notice that apply to every pick

  • Payment: none to a person or website that asks for it in TÜRKPATENT’s name.
  • Details: no personal, e-Devlet (the state’s online services portal), bank or card details on a suspect site.
  • Doubt: in a doubtful case the notice asks that you do not contact such people or enter into business with them.

KOSGEB support for small and medium businesses

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB, Küçük ve Orta Ölçekli İşletmeleri Geliştirme ve Destekleme İdaresi Başkanlığı) is one of the bodies related to the ministry. Its site menu lists nine programmes: Entrepreneur Support, Capacity Development, Global Competitiveness, Digital Transformation for Small and Medium Businesses, YÖNDE (Yönderlik ve Değerlendirme), Employment Protection, Technology Centre, Sector Development Centre (SEGEM) and the Artificial Intelligence Credit.

The Entrepreneur Support Programme (Girişimci Destek Programı) aims to support newly founded businesses so that they last, with first place for sectors set by Türkiye’s strategic priorities. Who may apply:

  • Every applicant: a business registered in KOSGEB’s database, active, with an up-to-date business declaration (işletme beyanı).
  • Set-up support: a business aged 0 to 1 year, in a sector KOSGEB supports.
  • Business development support: a business aged 0 to 3 years in manufacturing, telecommunications, computer programming and consulting, data processing and hosting, or scientific research and development.

Three items of the programme, as its page printed them (undated, checked 08.11.2026):

Set-up support

Performance support

For businesses whose entrepreneur is young, a woman, disabled or in another group the programme names, as long as the tax liability continues: 8 gross minimum wages (8 brüt asgari ücret). Conditions on sales and insurance days apply.

Business development support

Staff, machinery, software, services

Covers staff, machinery, equipment and moulds, software, and bought services such as training, consulting, certification, testing, marketing, design and industrial-property costs. Upper limit 2,250,000 TL, rate 80 %, repayable, project period 24 months.

Interest or profit-share support

Working capital

Loan limit 1,000,000 TL. The support is 50 % of the interest or profit-share rate, not repayable, for a support period and a loan term of 36 months each. For women or young entrepreneurs whose business-development board score is 50 or more; not together with business development support.

How to start (the page was last updated on 15.06.2023):

  1. Register with KOSGEBIn the e-services menu (e-Hizmetler) of its site, with the button KOSGEB’e Kayıt İşlemi.
  2. Fill in the business declarationIt sets the nature and class of the business (işletme niteliği ve sınıfı). The system approves it by itself when the data arrives complete from administrative records; otherwise a KOSGEB expert checks it.
  3. Apply to a supportAfter talking with your expert (uzman). The programme’s two main application forms are filled in on e-Devlet, the state’s online services portal (named here, not linked).

Foreign owners

The programme page says nothing about businesses owned by foreign nationals, one way or the other.

See also: Investment and Finance Office of Türkiye: What It Does

How to reach them addresses and lines, as printed

TÜRKPATENT address
Hipodrom Caddesi No:13, 06560 Yenimahalle, Ankara
TÜRKPATENT call line
(0312) 303 1 303 (printed as İnteraktif Bilgilendirme)
KOSGEB address
Hacı Bayram Mah. İstanbul Cad. No: 32, 06050 Ulus, Altındağ, Ankara
KOSGEB lines
0 312 595 28 00 (switchboard) · 0 312 368 07 15 · 444 1 567
The ministry
Its own address and lines are not given here.

Addresses and lines as the bodies’ own pages print them, checked 08.11.2026.

Sources and dates

Every fact here comes from a page of the body named, checked on the date shown. The ministry’s duties and structure come from an audit report, not from the ministry’s own pages. Fees, programmes and lists change; the bodies’ pages carry the current version.

  1. Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts), audit report on the Ministry of Industry and Technology for 2024, September 2025: outline of the duties set by Presidential Decree No. 1 — checked 08.11.2026
  2. Presidency of the Republic, cabinet page (Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kabinesi) — the page prints no date; checked 08.11.2026
  3. TÜRKPATENT, about the agency and its duties (Hakkımızda) — checked 08.11.2026
  4. TÜRKPATENT, trade marks: the definition (Marka) — checked 08.11.2026
  5. TÜRKPATENT, other kinds of trade mark (Geleneksel Olmayan Marka Türleri) — trade mark regulation, article 7, as the page cites it; checked 08.11.2026
  6. TÜRKPATENT, trade mark fees (Marka İşlem Ücretleri) — 2026 table; checked 08.11.2026
  7. TÜRKPATENT, trade mark account numbers (Marka Hesap Numaraları): fees in Turkish lira — checked 08.11.2026
  8. TÜRKPATENT, geographical indication and traditional product name (Coğrafi İşaret ve Geleneksel Ürün Adı) — law 6769, article 34, as the page cites it; checked 08.11.2026
  9. TÜRKPATENT, industrial-property advisory units (Sınai Mülkiyet Danışma Birimleri) — 316 units; checked 08.11.2026
  10. TÜRKPATENT, notice to the public — dated 16.09.2026; checked 08.11.2026
  11. KOSGEB, home page: programme menu, address and lines — checked 08.11.2026
  12. KOSGEB, Entrepreneur Support Programme (Girişimci Destek Programı) — undated; checked 08.11.2026
  13. KOSGEB, where to start (Nereden Başlamalıyım?) — page updated 15.06.2023; checked 08.11.2026

The photographs are from Wikimedia Commons, each with its author, date, licence and file page. The call desk is a drawing; nothing is sent from it.

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Written by: Hatice Kulali
Published: November 10, 2026
Category: Culture