Turkey unveils first fully homemade car in $3.7 billion bet on electric

Turkey unveils first fully homemade car in $3.7 billion bet on electric

ISTANBUL

Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car on Friday,

saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175,000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to cost 22 billion lira ($3.7 billion) over 13 years.

The project has been a long-time goal of President Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party as a demonstration of the country’s growing economic power.

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