Countries / Europe
Türkiye
Türkiye has adopted an AI Action Plan to 2030 that aims to mobilise at least 10 billion US dollars for data centres and AI infrastructure through growth zones and sandboxes.
Presidential Circular 2026/9, published in the Official Gazette on 18 August 2026, sets out the AI Action Plan 2026 to 2030 around four principles: awareness, adoption, development and governance. It calls for AI growth zones with pre-arranged energy, land and fibre and faster permitting, regional centres of excellence offering GPU access, regulatory sandboxes in at least five sectors, a national AI growth fund and a national AI council. It also targets at least 10 billion US dollars, mainly private, for data centres, cloud and AI infrastructure. For someone seeking compute, these are plans: we did not find named operating AI facilities.
AI policy and activity
Delivery is led by the Ministry of Industry and Technology with TUBITAK. A first TUBITAK call offers grants of up to 10 million lira per project and the HIT-30 programme allocates 1.6 billion US dollars to AI projects. EuroHPC's AI Factories page groups Türkiye with Spain's factory.
Rules and programmes
| Instrument | Kind | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence Action Plan 2026 to 2030 (Presidential Circular 2026/9) | Policy | In force from 18 August 2026 | Law-firm summary of the circular in Official Gazette No. 33344. A second law-firm note from CMS describes the growth zones, sandboxes and hyperscaler incentives. |
| HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme and TUBITAK AI Ecosystem Call | Programme | In force | Anadolu Agency report of 2 July 2026. HIT-30 allocates 1.6 billion US dollars for AI projects. The TUBITAK call took applications until 18 September. |
Checked on 2 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.