Turkey 'to save billions' through secure e-documents

ISTANBUL

Secure e-invoices which come with e-signature facilities will contribute nearly $750 million to the Turkish economy, Yuksel Samast, the head of Turkey’s leading secure e-documents provider, has said.

E-signatures used in e-documents rose to 1.7 million last year with 750,000 of them being actively used, according to data from the Turkish national telecommunications regulatory authority, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority.

 Samast said: "By the end of 2020 we expect the number of people who own an e-signature to hit 5 million and secure email accounts to reach 8 million."

"In 2015, it is aimed Turkey could save nearly 2 billion Turkish Lira ($0.76 bn) through the use of e-invoices alone."

Samast said that e-documents signed by the e-signatures enable people to conduct their official procedures in a much more efficient way as well as the fact they were completely legal and secure.

The benefits of secure e-documents is expected to multiply as other secure e-documents such as e-id, e-invoice, e-payroll and almost all legal documents in an electronic environment start to increase their share in coming years.