Türkiye's 2027 programme puts company AI use at 14 per cent, up from 7.5

Turkish companies with 10 or more employees nearly doubled their use of artificial intelligence in a year, to 14.0 per cent in 2026 from 7.5 per cent in 2025, the government's 2027 Presidential Annual Programme said.

The figures sit on page 227 of the programme, which Presidential Decision 11934 approved and the Official Gazette published on 27 October. They come from the 2026 survey of information technology use in enterprises by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), which covers companies with 10 or more employees. Use rises with size: 12.8 per cent of companies with 10 to 49 employees used at least one AI technology, against 17.0 per cent of those with 50 to 249 and 37.1 per cent of those with 250 or more.

By sector, the highest share was 63.7 per cent, among companies in telecommunications, programming and information services, the programme says. TÜİK's release of 2 October, as reported by the DHA news agency, put publishing, radio, television and content companies second at 57.1 per cent and the repair of computers and communication equipment third at 32.4 per cent. A summary of the same release by the tax and accounting site Alomaliye gives 2.7 per cent for companies in 2021. Marketing or sales was the most common use: 51.0 per cent of companies using AI applied it there, the programme says. The share of companies employing ICT specialists rose from 13.4 per cent in 2024 to 15.2 per cent in 2026.

Households moved faster. Citing TÜİK's household survey, the programme puts the share of people aged 16 to 74 who used generative AI at 37.6 per cent in 2026, against 19.2 per cent in 2025, and at 64.9 per cent among those aged 16 to 24.

The same section carries the programme's projections for the sector. Its table of ICT indicators, on page 226, puts the telecommunications market at $12.4 billion in 2024 and $16.1 billion in 2025, with an estimated $18.6 billion for 2026 and $20.5 billion set for 2027. The information technology market runs at $20.8 billion, $31.9 billion, $33.5 billion and $35.4 billion over the same four years. The programme's fibre targets and its count of 206 infrastructure operators were covered in our report on the fibre density target, and its fixed broadband shares in the DSL piece.

For data centre developers and operators, the survey measures demand at the level of the company rather than the workload. A company that uses one AI tool for marketing counts the same as one that trains its own models, and the programme gives neither the number of companies surveyed nor the volume of computing they buy. The financing side of the build is set out in ADB's loan to Rönesans for a 22 MW first data centre phase.