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Uniting and strengthening Türkiye's artificial intelligence ecosystem.

From academia to institutions, from startups to government; we bring every actor to the same table for a data-driven society and economy.

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Official Türkiye representative
14
active sector committees
50+
institutions represented
1000+
2026 event participants

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Early access to insights

Take part as a contributor in annual ecosystem reports and forecast studies.

International representation

Represent Türkiye in the global artificial intelligence community through the AAAI umbrella.

Eight actors growing the ecosystem together.

Each actor brings a different strength to the table; YZTD is the fabric connecting these strengths.

ProducersFrom knowledge to scale
Academia
Research and scientific foundation
Startups
Speed, agility, and new models
Investors
Capital and growth support
Institutions
Implementation scale and market reach
SupportersFrom infrastructure to trust
Infrastructure
Compute power and data
Government
Policy, regulation, and public interest
Civil Society
Trust, rights, and participation
Media
Visibility and public awareness
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YZTD Reports

We turn the discussion at the table into a report.

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Sector Reports · Issue 07

AI and Human Resources Report

A closed roundtable held on 5 June 2026 with more than 20 participants examines, through examples from the field, the questions AI raises in human resources: from algorithmic bias to shadow AI and from entry-level jobs to the digital workforce. Three core risks stood out in the session: data leakage through shadow AI, algorithmic bias rooted in historical data, and a talent pipeline weakened as entry-level roles are automated.

PDF · 35 pages · November 2026
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Sector Reports · Issue 06

AI and Cybersecurity Report

A closed roundtable held on 24 June 2026 with more than 20 participants examines, through cases from the field, the fronts AI has opened in cybersecurity: from asymmetric warfare to shadow AI and from model governance to critical infrastructure security. The session's core diagnosis is that AI has magnified the asymmetry between attacker and defender to an enormous degree.

PDF · 34 pages · November 2026
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Sector Reports · Issue 05

AI and Ethics Report

A closed roundtable held on 13 May 2026 with more than 20 participants: the ethical tensions of AI, from data governance to the accountability of autonomous agents and from cognitive decline to the dilemma of regulation and sustainability, and the decision-maker fallacy, which the session called its greatest error of perception.

PDF · 22 pages · October 2026
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YZTD Podcast

The voice of the ecosystem.

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Latest episode · September 2025

AI in Energy series, part 4 — EPDK

In the fourth part of our series on AI use cases and the future of the energy sector, we spoke with EPDK, the Turkish energy market regulator.

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We represent Türkiye in the international artificial intelligence community.

Official Türkiye representative of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence).

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From academia to government, from investment to startups: the ecosystem's leading institutions, under the YZTD umbrella.

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  • Bayındır Health Group logo
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