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Turkey Opens EVREN AI Platform to Defense and Research Users
Turkey’s Presidency of Defence Industries has opened EVREN, a national AI platform for defense firms, researchers, students and other users. Anadolu Agency reported that it combines data, AI models and high-performance computing, while an E
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Turkey’s Presidency of Defence Industries has opened EVREN, a national AI platform developed within the agency, to a wide range of users, Anadolu Agency reported on September 27, citing a statement from the Presidency. The agency said EVREN is aimed at users ranging from defense companies and technology firms to academics, entrepreneurs and students, bringing data, AI models and high-performance computing together on a single platform. Users sign in through identity verification on Turkey’s e-Devlet government portal at evren.ssyz.org.tr.
Data processed on GPUs in Turkey
Prompts, responses and usage data are processed on high-performance GPU infrastructure in Turkey, to prevent sensitive information from being transferred to cloud services abroad, Anadolu reported.
Credits earned by contributing
EVREN runs on a contribution-based credit model rather than direct paid access, according to Anadolu. Users earn credits by uploading datasets, labeling data or sharing trained models, and can spend them on model training and large-language-model inference in the platform’s high-performance GPU pool. The stated aim is for users to take part in building the EVREN ecosystem rather than only consuming a service.
Computer vision and open-weight language models
For computer vision, EVREN offers end-to-end data labeling and model training for tasks such as object detection, segmentation and classification. An inference layer covering 11 open-weight large language models had gone live, and an API with real-time responses and automatic model routing lets existing applications connect to the platform, Anadolu reported. API calls through November 1, 2026, are offered without limit and without deductions from users’ credit balances.
In a LinkedIn post, the EVREN Platform account said it had added DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash to the previously announced group of 11 models, indicating a total of 12. The account wrote:
“EVREN Platformu daha önce duyurusu yapılan dünyanın en bilinen 11 açık kaynaklı dil modeli filosuna yeni bir model daha ekleyerek (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) güncel dil modellerini kullanıcılarının erişimine sundu.”
EVREN Platform, in a post on its LinkedIn account
Translation from Turkish: EVREN Platform added a new model, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, to the previously announced fleet of 11 open-source language models and made current language models available to users.
Students had access from June
EVREN was reachable before Anadolu’s September report. On June 19, Ankara University’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence posted a notice that the Presidency had put the EVREN MLOps platform into service for students. The notice listed e-Devlet identity verification as the way to access the platform and July 31, 2026, as the deadline for promotional starter credits. Selçuk University published a notice giving the same deadline. EVREN had reached 7,500 active users in a short time, Anadolu reported.
Domestic models planned next
The Presidency plans to add domestic large language, image and audio models and to strengthen the platform’s computing capacity through distributed GPU management, Anadolu reported. EVREN is also intended to support work under Turkey’s Artificial Intelligence Action Plan and to provide defense companies, universities, technology firms, entrepreneurs and developers with a shared, Turkey-based infrastructure for AI development. The free API period runs until November 1, 2026.