Over the past two years, the Turkish Military Industrial Concern Aselsan returned 50 qualified personnel in the Back to Turkey program. In general, over the past 9 years, more than 595 researchers returned to their homeland.
The news portal “TRT in Russian” writes that the struggle for minds in Turkey began in 2006, when the back to Turkey project was launched (“Return to Turkey”). Since 2020, when he was renamed Next Big Move to Türkiye (“The next big return to Turkey”), the company’s experts decided not to wait for the return of personnel to their homeland, but to go behind them to the West.
Representatives Aselsan went to the Silicon Valley in the United States for presentations and interviews. They established ties with scientists and student organizations in Stanford, University of Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others.
The defense giant pays for all expenses for moving to Turkey as an expert himself and his family members. Repatriates are proposed to sign profitable contracts for work (at least two years) and create all sorts of conditions for disclosing their potential.
Return to the homeland of qualified specialists gives an additional impetus to the development of Turkey, which set forth the goal of entering the highest leagues engaged in the development of space, the production of own cars, high-precision weapons, writes the portal. The most important resource in achieving these goals is a highly educated labor force with ambitious plans.
The defense industry, which acts at the forefront of the scientific and technical progress of Turkey, calls the “brain drain” blood loss for the country. Aselsan promises to improve working conditions, pay a decent salary, to provide holidays for future repatriates. In addition to this employees will be provided with a medium for the development of their personal knowledge and skills in the field of science and technology.
According to Turkish media, most Turkish engineers who have left in the United States, England and the Netherlands since 2018, returned. They admit that, although financially did not experience any difficulties, still life in the West did not meet their expectations.