Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on Friday that he’ll attend Turkiye’s largest expertise and aerospace occasion TEKNOFEST subsequent 12 months, Anadolu Company studies.
Elon Musk thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the invitation and stated on X: “I stay up for attending in particular person subsequent 12 months and discussing additional alternatives for investments in Turkiye.”
“Congratulations to all of the groups taking part in @Teknofest,” Musk wrote, sharing a video of the occasion.
Erdogan met with Musk final week on the Turkish Home, additionally known as the Turkevi Middle, in New York, on the sidelines of the 78th session of the UN Basic Meeting, and invited him to attend TEKNOFEST in Turkiye and ask him to determine Tesla’s seventh manufacturing facility there.
The third version of TEKNOFEST 2023 kicked off on Wednesday within the Aegean province of Izmir in Turkiye. The five-day pageant at Cigli Airport options competitions, air reveals, exhibitions and workshops.
The occasion was beforehand held in varied Turkish cities in even years and within the metropolis of Istanbul in odd years. To mark the centenary of the founding of the Republic of Turkiye, this 12 months’s occasion was deliberate in three totally different provinces.
The primary version of this 12 months’s occasion was held in Could at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, welcoming a world document 2.2 million guests. The second passed off from August 30 to September 3 within the capital Ankara and attracted nearly 1 million individuals.
Anadolu has been one of many media companions of TEKNOFEST as a world communication companion of the occasion for the reason that first version.
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