Serdar Özyurt

Serdar Özyurt was born in 1984 in Antakya, Hatay. He completed his primary and secondary education in Antakya. For his university studies, he went to Mongolia, enrolling in the English Sinology program at the National University of Mongolia. During this period, he began working as a contractor on projects managed by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) in Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

In 2010, following his father's death, Özyurt returned to Turkey and decided to pursue a career in the defense industry. He officially entered the sector in 2012 and, in 2021, founded Özyurt Arms in Istanbul. The company became known for producing Turkey's first domestically^[5] manufactured Kalashnikov rifles,^[6][7][8] gaining international recognition with exports to countries such as Azerbaijan, the United States, Spain, and Saudi Arabia. Additionally, during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, the company supplied ammunition to meet the Azerbaijani military's needs.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}