CTech hosts Görgün and Al-Khorayef at Türkiye–Saudi Defence Industry Days
CTech said Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün, president of Türkiye’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB), and Bandar bin Ibrahim Al-Khorayef, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state, cabinet member and acting governor of the General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI), visited its stand at the Türkiye–Saudi Arabia Defence Industry Days in Istanbul on 11–12 November 2026. The company thanked both officials for their interest in its communications technologies. The official statement, issued on 13 November, does not announce a signed contract, an order quantity or a memorandum of understanding.
CTech published the bilingual announcement on its official account the day after the event closed. At the time of writing, no separate press-release page on the company’s website (ctech.com.tr) was visible. The event itself has already been confirmed by statements originating from the SSB and by earlier Envanter reporting.
What CTech said
The company said it presented its communications technologies during the two-day programme. It described the gathering as an effort to bring defence-industry organisations from both countries together to develop new partnerships, share technology and pursue joint projects. The English version of the same statement also records that Görgün and Al-Khorayef visited the stand and showed interest in the company’s technologies. It does not say which products were discussed or whether any follow-on work was agreed.
Held in Istanbul on 11–12 November 2026, the event brought together defence industry organisations from both countries to promote new partnerships, technology sharing and joint projects. We were pleased to present our leading communications technologies and to take part on behalf of our country.
CTech also thanked everyone who visited the stand during the event.
The event around the visit
The Defence Industry Days were held at Property Expo Istanbul (Vadi Istanbul) and organised with the involvement of Türkiye’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), the SAHA Istanbul defence cluster and Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI). Envanter has already reported the broader programme: 69 Turkish and 30 Saudi firms held 601 company-to-company meetings over the two days, and Görgün and Al-Khorayef also held a formal bilateral meeting after the protocol session on 12 November. That meeting, and Al-Khorayef’s invitation to Turkish firms to co-produce in the Kingdom, were covered separately, as was Görgün’s partnership offer and the GAMI–SSB talks on the sidelines of SAMI’s first RUKN Supplier Day, which overlapped the same dates and city.
SSB-origin summaries of the event listed Al-Khorayef’s meetings with executives from Otokar, Roketsan, STM, Havelsan, TUSAŞ, MKE and SAHA Istanbul. CTech does not appear on that list; the stand visit is reported here on the basis of the company’s own official statement.
What was on the stand
CTech is a Turkish firm specialising in satellite and line-of-sight (LOS) communications, based at Teknopark Istanbul. It did not publish a full list of the products shown at this event. In the official photographs, a display for SecureARX, the company’s resilient SATCOM modem, is visible behind the stand. Those images record a company exhibit; they do not in themselves amount to a sale, an order or a new agreement.
CTech’s own archive records that in 2023, at IDEF, it signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi firm Intra Defense Technologies on integrating communications systems for unmanned aircraft. The 13 November statement does not refer to that earlier text or to any new follow-up.
