Nurol Makina ve Sanayi

Nurol Makina was founded in 1976 to build turnkey industrial plants, steel construction work and heavy machinery, and it carried that engineering base with it when it moved into armour. The Sincan plant in Ankara opened in 1992. Around 17,000 square metres of covered space on a 50,000 square metre site now produces tactical wheeled armoured vehicles for the Turkish Armed Forces, the Gendarmerie and the National Police, together with an export book that has grown steadily since the middle of the last decade. Roughly 1,800 of the company's vehicles are in service. Headcount sits somewhere between 500 and 600, which makes this one of the smaller Turkish primes by staff and one of the busier ones by delivery rate.

Ejder Yalcin is the flagship. A 4x4 tactical wheeled armoured vehicle in the 14 tonne class, it carries a crew of around nine depending on configuration and has been fielded with remote weapon stations, mortars and anti tank launchers on the roof. Hungary ordered it in 2018, first ten vehicles and then forty more, which was the company's first European contract and the start of a wider NATO customer base. NMS is the lighter tactical armoured vehicle in the range, sold in a standard 4x4 form and as the smaller NMS-L, both built around scalable armour packages so protection can be traded against mobility and payload. Nurol Makina also produces a Pars 4x4 and the Ilgaz, a lighter armoured vehicle used mainly in internal security work. Everything in the range is armoured from the ground up rather than converted from a commercial chassis, which is the line the company draws between itself and the up-armoured pickup trade competing for the same tenders.

Riot control and logistics support vehicles are separate lines rather than variants. Ejder TOMA is the water cannon vehicle used by Turkish police forces and sold abroad, and Ejder Kunter is the logistics support version of the Ejder chassis, carrying supplies and recovery equipment behind the forward edge. The company sells armour design and ballistic protection engineering as work in its own right, alongside integrated logistics support, spares provisioning and crew training for exported fleets. In 2026 it signed a memorandum with the Malaysian firm Nadicorp covering local production, technology transfer and regional exports of Ejder Yalcin and NMS, extending a pattern of licensed manufacture rather than straight sales. Machinery and steel construction remain part of the business, and the parent Nurol Holding sits across construction, mining, finance and defence with close to 9,500 employees group wide. Deliveries have gone to customers across Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East as well as Europe, and the same holding also owns FNSS, which puts wheeled tactical vehicles and tracked fighting vehicles under one roof without either company giving up its own product line or its own design office.