Deputy Secretary of
Corporate Development
and Talent Management
Deputy Secretary of
Aviation
Systems
Deputy Secretary of
System and
Platform
Deputy Secretary of
Industrialization and
Strategic Planning
Deputy Secretary of
Strategic
Systems
Prof. Hakan KARATAŞ completed his higher education in the Department of English Language and Education at İstanbul University. Between 1996-2000, KARATAŞ worked as an English teacher at Kabataş High School and in 2000, he became a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages at Yıldız Technical University (YTU). In 2003, he served as the Deputy Director at YTU’s Human Resources Development Center. In 2007, he completed his master’s degree in the Department of Educational Sciences, and in 2011, he earned his Ph.D.
Gökhan UÇAR was born in Ankara in 1971. He graduated from Ankara Science High School in 1988 and Aeronautical Engineering of Middle East Technical University in 1993. He completed his master degree at Mechanical Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University on Computational Fluid Dynamics. He started his professional career at the Secretariat of Defence Industries (SSB) in 1994. He served as the Program Manager for Peace Eagle (Airborne Early Warning and Control A/C-E7), Joint Strike Fighter (F-35), A400M, C-130 Modernization, Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft (Meltem-2), Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft (Meltem-3), T-38 Modernization and F-5 Modernization programs in the “SSB Aircraft Department” between 1994-2008;
Mustafa Murat ŞEKER was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1968. He graduated from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Faculty of Middle-East Technical University in 1992. At the same year he began his professional career in Secretariat of Defence Industries (SSB).
Prof. İhsan KAYA, born in 1980, completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Selçuk University, Department of Industrial Engineering, and his PhD at Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Science, Department of Industrial Engineering. He has worked as a research assistant at Selçuk University, Department of Industrial Engineering between 2002-2005 and has also worked in Istanbul Technical University Department of Industrial Engineering between 2005-2011. In 2011, he continued his career as an Assistant Professor at Yıldız Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering. Meanwhile, Prof. Kara has given lectures in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Turkish Military Academy in the period of 2011-2012 . He became Associate Professor in 2012 and Professor in 2018 at Yıldız Technical University Department of Industrial Engineering.
Born in 1977 in Ankara, Hüseyin AVŞAR graduated from the Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 1999 and in the same year, he was assigned to then-Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM).
Prof. Haluk Görgün received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yıldız Technical University. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Connecticut between 2004 and 2005.