Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday unveiled prototypes of a domestically produced electric car, putting him closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of building Turkey's first 'national' automobile. The president test drove a car across a suspension bridge over the Gulf of Izmit. The Turkish leader has long pushed industrialists to build a domestic automobile as part of his vision for making Turkey an economic powerhouse. Erdogan said the cars would be produced in a factory to be built on former military-owned land in the province of Bursa. During the 1960s, a group of Turkish engineers built prototypes of a car called Devrim, or Revolution in English.

Source: Daily Mail December 27, 2019 16:14 UTC