Türkiye’s Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır said the first version of BİLGE, a Turkish-language AI model, would soon be offered to developers. At the TRT World Forum in Istanbul, he outlined plans for startups, researchers and companies to build on the model, alongside government goals for training, public data and risk-based safeguards.
Türkiye’s Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır said the first version of BİLGE, the country’s Turkish-language large language model, would soon be offered to developers. Speaking at the TRT World Forum in Istanbul, he said startups, researchers and companies should be able to build products and services using the country’s own capabilities. The announcement promises future access rather than marking a completed public release.[1], [2]
Kacır said Türkiye had prepared its 2030 AI Action Plan. Its goals include AI literacy for five million citizens, ten thousand advanced specialists and one hundred thousand professionals able to apply AI across sectors. He also set out a goal of opening at least two thousand public datasets to researchers and entrepreneurs. Data-centre capacity is targeted to reach at least one gigawatt by 2030.[1]
The minister described work on obligations tied to an application’s level of risk, with stronger safeguards and human oversight for higher-risk systems. Planned regulatory testing spaces in priority sectors are intended to let researchers and entrepreneurs test technology under defined rules. He also described an AI ethics board to guide privacy, prevention of discrimination and child safety, emphasizing that responsibility cannot be delegated to technology.[1]
