Is there KOSGEB support for websites? Where the 2026 programs stand.

Among the support programs of KOSGEB, Turkey’s SME development agency, that were live on 23 September 2026, there is no separate program or cost item called “website support”; the closest items that could touch a website are the marketing and promotion headings within the programs’ “software costs” and “service procurement costs”. The guidelines do not say whether a website cost falls under these headings; the decision is left to the board that assesses the project.

The question comes up often when a B2B website is being planned for an exporting manufacturer: does KOSGEB support having a website built? Plenty of pages on the internet answer “yes, with a grant of this much”. In the official sources the picture is less clear. The reading below relies only on KOSGEB’s own website: the programs listed on its supports page on 23 September 2026 and the guidelines for those programs. No secondary sources were used.

Support conditions may change; verify the current text with KOSGEB before applying. This article is not legal or financial advice.

Which KOSGEB programs are currently live?

On that day the supports page listed the following programs: Entrepreneur Support Program, Capacity Development Support Program, Global Competitiveness Support Program, SME Digital Transformation Support Program, YÖNDE – Mentoring and Assessment Support Program, Employment Protection Support Program, Technology Center Support Program, Sectoral Development Center (SEGEM) Support Program and the Artificial Intelligence Loan. None of them has website, e-commerce site or digital promotion in its name. The page also has a “Repealed Supports” heading, where the old programs are kept.

Do the guidelines mention websites?

We scanned the text of the guidelines for the four programs closest to a website cost — Entrepreneur Support, Capacity Development, Global Competitiveness and SME Digital Transformation. The word “web” appears only in the Entrepreneur Support Program Guideline, and only once; it concerns checking social security (SGK) premium days “via web services”. The phrase “internet site” appears once, in the same guideline, as a reference to the trade fair calendar published on the website of TOBB (the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey). The word “e-commerce” appears in none of the four guidelines. In other words, a website cost is not listed by name in any of these four guidelines.

Does the Entrepreneur Support Program cover a website?

The program’s Business Development Support provides repayable support to projects of newly established businesses. According to the guideline, the support rate is 80%, the project duration 36 months and the total ceiling TRY 1,500,000; TRY 150,000 is added if the entrepreneur is young, a woman, disabled, a veteran or a first-degree relative of a fallen soldier. Applications can be made within three years of the business’s founding date, and its NACE code must be in Manufacturing (Section C) or in divisions 61, 62, 63 or 72; completion of advanced entrepreneur training before applying is also required.

The eligible cost types include software costs — in the guideline’s words, the license fee for purchased software, the fee for cloud access rights or the fee for time-limited license use — and service procurement costs. The marketing heading of service procurement lists participation in domestic trade fairs, visits to trade fairs abroad and promotion costs; for promotion, the guideline’s sentence says support is given for “advertising and promotion costs” to promote the business and its products. The guideline does not say whether a website falls within that sentence.

Does “design cost” cover web design?

The word is misleading. In the Entrepreneur Support Program Guideline, design costs are defined as service procurement for the business’s product design or for the design of the machinery, equipment and molds it will use in production and service delivery. Web design does not appear in this definition. The definition of software cost is narrow too: the license fee for purchased software, the fee for cloud access rights or the fee for time-limited license use. The guideline does not say whether a site developed specifically for a company falls under this definition or under service procurement; the fact that the same work can be read as two different cost types is the reason to ask in writing before applying.

Which KOSGEB item is directly useful for an exporter?

Foreign trademark registration. The industrial property rights costs heading of the same guideline lists, alongside payments made to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, payments made to foreign counterparts of TÜRKPATENT to obtain a foreign trademark registration certificate, as well as attorney fees. For an exporter, this may be an item that comes before the website: the e-export supports of Turkey’s Ministry of Trade require a foreign registration application for the trademark of the supported product.

What do Capacity Development and Global Competitiveness offer?

These two programs are not grants but interest or profit-share support: support is given toward the interest or profit share on loans the business takes out from partner financial institutions. The cost types that can be financed include software costs and service procurement costs under the heading “training, consulting and mentoring, certification, testing and analysis, marketing, design, industrial property rights”. According to the program page, a business applying for Capacity Development must have a NACE code in Manufacturing or in divisions 61, 62, 63, 72, be small or medium-sized and — with certain exceptions — be a fast-growing business.

Here, too, the website does not appear by name. Whether a site project can be written into a project under these programs as a “marketing” or “software” cost is assessed within the project’s subject and the project as a whole. The programs aim at scaling up, digital transformation and global competition; a corporate site on its own may come into consideration if it can be presented as part of one of these goals.

Does the SME Digital Transformation program cover websites?

Despite what its name suggests, the program’s target is different. Its aim is the digital transformation of SMEs’ business processes; the eligibility conditions include operating in the Manufacturing sector (NACE C). Its guideline does not contain the words website, e-commerce or promotion. This program should be read not for a corporate website budget but for the digitalization of production and business processes.

What are the “KOSGEB website grant” amounts on the internet based on?

We cannot tell, because most of them cite no source. Search results include summary pages that quote specific amounts for websites and e-commerce infrastructure; we could not find these amounts on KOSGEB’s program pages and in its guidelines as of 23 September 2026. Some of them may belong to old programs that have since been repealed. Before putting an amount in your budget, ask which article of which guideline of which program it is based on; if the answer is not an article number, the amount is not a plan.

What should a company considering support for a website do?

• Read your status first — which program do the business’s age, NACE code and size fit?
• Think of the site not on its own but as part of a project — the guidelines support costs related to the project’s subject.
• Ask about the cost item in writing — will the site count as a “promotion cost” or a “software cost”? Get the answer in writing from the relevant KOSGEB unit.
• If you export, also read the Ministry of Trade’s supports: e-export supports 2026.
• Clarify the wording of quotes and invoices from the start — item names should match the cost types of the program you apply to.

Will a site built with support bring in business?

A support may cover part of a site’s cost; it does not cover whether the site brings in business. This site’s own Search Console data is a good example: in September 2026, over the last 28 days, 461 pages were indexed and the site had received about 2,950 impressions and 7 clicks; most impressions came from definitional queries. A page being indexed and a page answering the query the buyer searches for are two different things; the second is a matter of content and measurement.

This studio does not prepare support applications and cannot decide which program a site is eligible for; that decision belongs to the company and KOSGEB. What we can do is build the site itself around the buyer’s needs. What is needed from a foreign buyer’s perspective is in the guide what an exporter’s website should look like; the buyer’s first seconds are in the article how B2B buyers search for suppliers.

For a site that presents your products to foreign buyers in their own language, B2B website builds and measures the path to product, certificate and quote in the target market’s language.