The OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Directorate's 2025 Ordinary General Assembly Meeting was held in the OSTİM OSB Conference Hall. The General Assembly was attended by Ankara Provincial Director of Industry and Technology Dr. Ömer Ersoy, OSTİM OSB General Assembly delegates, and representatives from the OSTİM ecosystem.
Following a moment of silence and the recitation of the National Anthem, Sıtkı Öztuna, Deputy Chairman of the OSTİM OSB Board of Directors, was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Assembly, and Evren Bulut, President of Gül 86 Cooperative, was unanimously elected as a member of the Assembly Board.
In his opening speech at the General Assembly Meeting, Orhan Aydın, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone, shared the development process and vision of the OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone management from the past to the present with the delegates.
Aydın, drawing attention to OSTİM's role in Ankara's industrialization process and highlighting the high concentration of OSTİM-based companies in Ankara's organized industrial zones, said, "As OSTİM, we played a role in the design of the Ankara Aerospace and Aviation Specialized Organized Industrial Zone (HAB). We examined a similar zone in Mexico under the auspices of the Presidency of Defense Industry. As a result, the HAB Organized Industrial Zone has created incredible added value for Ankara and our region."
Aydın explained that OSTİM is an ecosystem with its organized industrial zone, foundation, investment company, technopark, clusters, university, and firms, and stated, "We are doing these things because we believe it should be this way. We are doing it for the good of our region, our country, and humanity. Perhaps we are going a little beyond the boundaries of OSTİM. OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone energizes us."
“We advocate for vocational schools and technoparks to be located in Organized Industrial Zones”
Aydın, reminding that the OSTİM Foundation operates under two main headings, education and technology, stated, “We argue that vocational schools should be located in organized industrial zones. For the first time in Türkiye, OSTİM, together with Gazi University, brought a Vocational School to an Organized Industrial Zone. In addition, we advocate for technoparks to be located in industrial zones. We achieved this by bringing the Middle East Technical University (METU) Technopark to OSTİM. METU's presence in OSTİM is very valuable and important to us.”
Stating that they aimed to realize the aspects of university-industry collaboration that could not be implemented when designing Ostim Technopark, Mayor Aydın said, "We convinced 7 universities in Ankara to become partners in our technopark."
“OSTİM is an ecosystem”
Orhan Aydın stated that the OSTİM Foundation recently crowned the region with the establishment of OSTİM Technical University, adding, “When we talk about OSTİM, we are referring to an ecosystem. Within this ecosystem, there are institutions that provide answers to all questions, from ‘I have an idea’ to ‘I want to take my company public.’ At the same time, we have created clusters, a new version of the Ahi organization, which was a very important institution in our civilization in the past and is used by developed countries. Our clusters in Construction and Industrial Machinery, Defense and Aerospace, Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies, Medical Industry, and Rubber Technologies have transformed into clusters that include not only companies from OSTİM but also those from the Ankara basin and nearby provinces.”
“We took it upon ourselves to act according to the situation.”
Emphasizing that the two clusters in OSTİM, the Anatolian Rail Transportation Systems Cluster (ARUS) and the Communication Technologies Cluster (HTK), were established to produce solutions to Turkey's problems, Chairman Aydın stated: “We have now finished the discussions about making all of Türkiye's rail systems, including light metro, metro, and high-speed trains, in Türkiye, and we have serious companies that do this in Turkey. They have become capable of doing work all over the world. We took it upon ourselves to organize the companies that will produce Turkey's communication technologies, which we felt responsible for. This cluster was responsible for including the 60% domestic contribution clause in the most recent 5G tender.”
“OSTIM will welcome you in Uzbekistan”
Aydın explained that they have hosted delegations from the Turkish and Islamic world and from all countries in Africa, and that they have signed memoranda of understanding with countries that request them to share information about the OSTİM model. He also reminded that they are carrying out the construction of the Uzbek-Turkish Organized Industrial Zone, built with the OSTİM model in Uzbekistan, under the auspices of the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Orhan Aydın continued: “When you go to Tashkent, you will be greeted by the OSTİM Industrial Zone. That zone is now operational. Many of our companies from Türkiye have started investing there.”
Aydın stated that OSTİM's future vision does not include ordinary companies, and explained that, drawing inspiration from the Silicon Valley example in the USA, they are preparing OSTİM as a technology valley.
At the general assembly, OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Regional Manager Adem Arıcı presented the 2025 activities and the 2026 work program. Stating that they are managing the change and transformation in OSTİM, Arıcı said, “We have continued our infrastructure, superstructure, zoning, electricity and natural gas distribution activities, as mandated by the Organized Industrial Zones Law, with a high-quality, uninterrupted, and competitive approach. In 2025, we regulated both licenses and permits to properly guide the development here. We want to change the face of OSTİM. We are striving to carry out the construction in a proper manner by slightly increasing the size of the building facades and usage patterns.”
At the meeting, the Activity Report, work plan, income and expenditure accounts, and the audit committee report were discussed and unanimously approved.
In the election held to determine the Board of Directors and the representatives of the Organized Industrial Zones Supreme Council (OSBÜK), the current board of directors was re-elected unanimously, receiving a vote of confidence.
OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Board of Directors: Chairman Orhan Aydın, Vice Chairman Sıtkı Öztuna, Board Members; A. Mithat Ertuğ, Behzat Zeydan, Yaşar Özelge.
Supervisory Board: Mehmet Alkan and Süleyman Eser.
Orhan Aydın, Durali Ekiciler, and Mehmet Akif Irkılata were unanimously elected to represent OSTİM OSB at the OSBÜK (Association of Organized Industrial Zones of Turkey) branch.
To access the OSTİM OSB 2025 Activity Report, click here
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