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Turkey will become a producer of critical technologies, instead of a consumer, Turkey's industry and technology minister said on May 19. 

Mustafa Varank said Turkey will not be a market for technological products but a production base for the world.

Turkey aims to have a vehicle market of 1.6 million by 2030, according to the Industry and Technology Ministry's "Mobility Vehicles and Technologies Strategy Roadmap" draft. 

More than a third of all vehicles are planned to be electric, and a network of 251,000 charging connectors will be installed across the country in the next nine years, according to the roadmap. 

In a first, a Turkish car has been crowned one of the most prestigious design awards in the world, Turkey's Automobile Initiative Group (TOGG) said in a statement on April 18.

"TOGG became the first Turkish brand to receive such an award and achieved a significant success in mobility with its C-SUV model at the iF Design Awards 2021," it said.

Turkey's Eti Maden Lithium Production Plant inaugurated in the country's central province of Eskişehir on Dec. 26 will help prevent annually $20 million lithium imports, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez said.

Turkey will own the intellectual and industrial property rights of its first indigenous car, the Turkish industry and technology minister said on Dec. 26.

The car prototype will be unveiled on Dec. 27 in the industrial province of Kocaeli, Mustafa Varank noted.

The train line connecting Istanbul's European side suburb Halkalı with Gebze district of Kocaeli province on the east was opened to service with an official ceremony on March 12 with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan upon the completion of a six-year-long renovation process.

The train line connecting Istanbul's European side suburb Halkalı with Gebze district of Kocaeli province on the east is expected to be opened to service in the coming months following the completion of a six-year-long renovation process.

The summer house of the late Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey in Gebze now serves as a museum, displaying original items belonging to him

A British tourist visiting Istanbul has reportedly been given a 3,000-Turkish Lira ($757) receipt for a two-way transfer from Atatürk Airport to a hotel in the neighboring district of Gebze in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.

One worker was killed and 15 were injured due to an explosion at a factory in the Marmara province of Kocaeli on Jan. 13, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The explosion occurred in a steel pit at a rolling plant in an industrial site in the province's Dilovası district at 11:00 a.m. Witnesses said the explosion occurred while the pit was under reparation.