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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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Have a voice in committees

Directly contribute to your sector's policy, research, and standards work.

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Sit at the same table with institutions from investment, academia, government, and startups.

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.

One table

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 02

Healthcare AI in Türkiye Report

A closed roundtable held on 14 May 2026 with more than 20 experts: the five structural blockages keeping AI in healthcare from reaching clinical scale, and the five urgent action items identified to break the deadlock.

PDF · 32 pages · August 2026
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Sector Reports · Issue 01

Start-Up Roundtable Report

A closed expert session on the structural barriers to growth in Türkiye’s AI ecosystem, looking past the successes on display.

PDF · 18 pages · July 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).

Our members and stakeholders

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

  • Türkiye İş Bankası logo
  • Türk Telekom logo
  • SOCAR logo
  • Enerjisa logo
  • ING logo
  • KPMG logo
  • EY logo
  • GE logo
  • Gilead logo
  • Intertech logo
  • Koç University logo
  • Istanbul University logo
  • Acıbadem University logo
  • Bayındır Health Group logo
  • Tazi.AI logo
  • Tam Finans logo
  • OYAK Finans logo
  • Koç Finans logo
  • ALJ Finans logo
  • Çetinkaya logo
  • Üner logo
  • Tekno Fikir logo
  • Taze Fikir logo
  • Tasarist logo
  • Essential Evolutions logo
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