Kacır: Türkiye targets launch of domestic navigation app in early 2027

Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır said they are targeting early 2027 for a domestic mapping and navigation app that will replace foreign apps on phones. Kacır also announced plans to send the lunar vehicle to the Moon in the first months of 2027.

Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır spoke at Bursa Technical University’s 2026–2027 Academic Year Opening and Honorary Doctorate Conferment Ceremony. Kacır said they regard domestic mapping and navigation as a strategic field and are preparing a local solution to replace the foreign apps used on phones.

Kacır announced that the app is targeted to become available from the beginning of 2027. He said the project was important for data security and was being developed as an ecosystem project with contributions from TOGG.

Minister Kacır speaks at the ceremony at Bursa Technical University

Referring also to space efforts, Kacır said plans called for the lunar vehicle, whose production had been completed with a localization rate of more than 80 percent, to be sent to the Moon in the first months of 2027. Kacır said Türkiye aimed to launch its satellites with its own rockets from its own spaceport and announced that work had begun to establish a spaceport in Somalia.

Bursa Technical University’s academic year opening ceremony

Kacır also announced that preparations for Türkiye to develop its own nuclear reactor had been completed and that the project phase had begun. The minister added that the goal was to provide 5 million people with artificial intelligence literacy within two years.

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