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Top 13 Defense contractor companies based in Türkiye

RevenueBase identified 65 defense contractor companies headquartered in Türkiye as of September 2026 and tracks 17,077 professional contacts across them, including 1,790 with verified work emails. Ankara is the largest hub.

This list covers defense contractor companies headquartered in Türkiye, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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1,790Verified emails
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The 13 largest defense contractor companies based in Türkiye

Ranked by team size
Top 13 of 65 defense contractor companies based in Türkiye, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 30, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to defense contractor companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceMehmet Akif Ersoy, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 202610001+12,657 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ASELSAN is a company of Turkish Armed Forces Foundation, established in 1975 in order to meet the communication needs of the Turkish Armed Forces by national means.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
2Indirect evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 2026501-1,000850 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş, is a globally recognized company that specializes in designing and producing wheeled and tracked armoured combat vehicles as well as combat…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
3Indirect evidenceEskişehir, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 2026201-500336 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Savronik, Türk Savunma Sanayii’ne hizmet vermek üzere 1986 yılında kurulmuş; kurulduğu günden beri savunma sanayii için özgün tasarımlarını başta ISO ve AQAP-2110 sertifikaları…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
4Partial evidenceIstanbul, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 20261,001-5,000321 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CANiK, Türkiye’s leading firearms brand and flagship of SYS Group – one of the country’s top 10 defence companies – has been shaping the global industry since 1998.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
5Partial evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 2026201-500297 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in 2005 and currently headquartered at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Teknopark in Ankara, SDT Space & Defence Technologies (SDT) has become as a…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
6Indirect evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 20261,001-5,000270 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ARCA, Ankara Ticaret Odası'nın onayıyla faaliyet gösteren, Türkiye'nin önde gelen bir savunma sanayii şirketidir.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
7Partial evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 2026201-500206 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Nero Industries, we stand among the world’s leading subsystem manufacturers, delivering multi-layer defense and operational safety solutions designed for the most demanding…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
8Indirect evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 202651-200109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ekinoks-AG, savunma sanayii projelerinde ihtiyaç duyulan ileri mühendislik hizmetlerini vermek üzere sektörde 15 yılı aşkın tecrübeye sahip mühendisler tarafından 16 Nisan 2012…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
9Partial evidenceIstanbul, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 2026201-50036 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mertsav Savunma Sistemleri (Mertsav Defence Systems) is a Turkish small arms manufacturer based in Istanbul, focused on the design and production of machine guns, infantry rifles…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
10Partial evidenceİzmir, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 202651-20016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“SMS Defense Industry was established in 1991 in Izmir.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
11Partial evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 202611-5013 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Defense industry and IT”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
12Indirect evidenceAnkara, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 202611-502 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Savunma sanayi ve endüstriyel alanlarda ihtiyaç duyulan teknoloji sistemlerini tasarlamak, üretmek ve bu sistemleri otonom teknolojileri ile donatmak vizyonu ile 2022 yılında…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
13Partial evidenceZiya Gökalp, TürkiyeHQ checked Sep 30, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Kubal Defence”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026

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Defense contractor companies based in Türkiye at a glance

As of Sep 30, 2026
10.5%Verified-email coverage
262.7Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
46.2%Largest-city concentration · Ankara
Sep 30, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
18
11-50
21
51-200
13
201-500
7
501-1,000
2
1,001-5,000
2
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Türkiye, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Türkiye, over 65 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among defense contractor companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Türkiye whose own description of what they do matches “defense contractor companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names defense contractor companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among defense contractor companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Türkiye are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,790 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names defense contractor companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many defense contractor companies are there based in Türkiye?

RevenueBase identified 65 defense contractor companies headquartered in Türkiye as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Aselsan, headquartered in Ankara, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most defense contractor companies?

Ankara leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (6) and Yenimahalle (5).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,790 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 65 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.