SME Development Organization of Turkey

KÜSGEM (Small Industry Development Center), which was established in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in the form of a pilot project in Gaziantep in 1973 within the frame of the International Treaty between the Government of Republic of Turkey and United Nations Industrial Development Organization, started providing service with community facility workshops for the small –scale industrial enterprises.

Those efforts were subjected to a general assessment in the following years and KÜSGET (Small Industry Development Organization General Directorate) started its activities under the International Treaty on the “Development of Publication Services of Small Industry”, which was published in the Official Gazette dated September 6th 1984 and numbered 18157 basing on the Cabinet Decree dated June 17th 1983 and numbered 83/6744. KÜSGET provided technical consultancy services with Centers of Development of Small Scaled Enterprises, put modern administration principles into application in those enterprises, showed efforts for the establishment and spread of quality awareness at world standards, rising technologic production level and increasing employment capacity and tried to perform the services for strengthening the technical infrastructure in order to provide contemporary management skills.