It is 3PM, second day of President Abdullah G\u00fcl\u2019s visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the King Abdullah bin Abd\u00fclaziz\u2019s guest. The cortege including President G\u00fcl, State Minister K\u00fcr\u015fad T\u00fczmen, National Defense Minister Vecdi G\u00f6n\u00fcl and Minister of Transport Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m and the people traveling with them abruptly left Al Faisaliah Hotel. An hour later, we arrived at Saudi Arabian Ground Forces facilities in Al Kharj. We have been told that the facilities where armored vehicles named \u201cM113\u201d are being modernized are operated by FNSS Defense Sytems Co., a company affiliated with Nurol Holding of which Mr. Nurettin \u00c7arm\u0131kl\u0131 is the Chairman of the Board. According to FNNS Defense Systems CEO Nail Kurt and Tracked Vehicle Programs Director Selim Tibet the company has undertaken the modernization project of 300 \u201cM113\u201d expected to last six years. The project which is expected to come to an end in August 2010 covers a business volume worth USD210 millions. After the quick tour of the facilities, during the 5-10 minute break President G\u00fcl shared his sentiment by saying: You saw what FNSS has accomplished, didn\u2019t you? In fact, the vehicles with no original technology and even armor are being transformed by FNSS into fully armored vehicles featuring important technological characteristics. Isn\u2019t this project one of the examples that you mention in your advice to businessmen when you say \u201cmove in the direction of high added-value works.\u201d Certainly. Here a very important work is being realized. This shows very clearly what the Turkish businessmen are capable of achieving. I am familiar with FNSS, because my daughter who is an industrial engineer did her internship there. There were one old and two new vehicles at the point where the tour came to an end at Al Kharj facilities where Saudi Arabia\u2019s \u201cM113\u201d armored vehicles are modernized by the Nurol Holding affiliate FNSS Defense Systems Co.. The Saudi Deputy National Defense Minister Prince Halit Bin Sultan (Arab forces commander during the days of the Gulf War) tried to tell President Abdullah G\u00fcl what FNSS has so far accomplished by showing him the two vehicles. G\u00fcl smiled and said: My daughter is an industrial engineer. She did her internship at Ankara FNSS. May be he (meaning Nurol boss Nurettin \u00c7arm\u0131kl\u0131) does not know about this. I know quite well what FNSS is capable of doing since my daughter did her internship there. Nurettin \u00c7arm\u0131kl\u0131 answered back: Oh please sir! You are embarrassing me. FNNS Defense Systems Co. directors told us that the new project has just been recently approved. By August 2010, the modernization of 300 ‘M113\u201d will be completed. Yet, right after this project, a new 300-vehicle project, and this time with a budget of USD330 millions will come up. While improving its facilities, FNNS Defense Systems Co. trained the Saudi personnel in Ankara, and brought 29 of its personnel here to modernize each \u201cM113\u201d for an amount of USD 700 thousands. The price of a brand new armored vehicle comparable to \u201cM113\u201d is not below USD1million. Both countries benefit from the situation. It seems like there will be a lot work for the Turkish defense sector in Saudi Arabia. President G\u00fcl and National Defense Minister G\u00f6n\u00fcl persistently drew attention to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is 3PM, second day of President Abdullah G\u00fcl\u2019s visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the King Abdullah bin Abd\u00fclaziz\u2019s guest. The cortege including President G\u00fcl, State Minister K\u00fcr\u015fad T\u00fczmen, National Defense Minister Vecdi G\u00f6n\u00fcl and Minister of Transport Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m and the people traveling with them abruptly left Al Faisaliah Hotel. An hour later, we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nurol-in-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurol.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}