Uluer Group

Founded in 1998, Uluer Group is a defense prime contractor based in Ankara, Turkey working in weapons, ammunition & energetics.

Uluer Group is a multi-sector holding company headquartered in Ankara, Turkey, with operations in Turkey, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Hungary. Its activities span tourism, hot-air ballooning, aviation, maritime, media, hospitality, food processing and defense. The group was founded as an umbrella organisation in 1998 and moved its headquarters to Ankara in 2021. Its defense business, Uluer Defense (Uluer Defense Industry Joint Stock Company), was established in 2018 in Konya's Hüğlü district. It manufactures and exports weapons and defense equipment, most notably the Shayka tactical rifle, and holds facility security certificates with National Confidential and NATO Confidential classifications from the Turkish Ministry of National Defense. Through distributorships, including the Czech MPI company in four countries including Turkey, it supplies defense vehicles and other defense products to foreign markets. The company has also been authorised by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense to carry out mine search, scanning and clearance activities and quality assurance/quality control. The wider group is best known for its balloon operations in Cappadocia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.