Nunatak Founder Fatma Şahin İşler evaluated 2025 in her special statements to Defensehere.com, talked about her expectations for 2026 and the company’s new work. Şahin announced that they opened a P&D Center last year and developed new products for extreme climatic conditions. Evaluating the year 2025, Şahin emphasized that they operate in a different field than the standard textile sector and stated that they produce technical cold climate clothing, tents and sleeping bags.
Stating that they accelerated their new product development efforts despite the general problems in the sector, Şahin said that they opened a P&D Center in 2025 and that they have undertaken important projects in the field of military products both at home and abroad. Şahin shared his expectations for 2026 with the following words: “We entered 2026 very excitedly. Because we have a lot of expectations from 2026. We have a lot of expectations about the products we will develop for our own country, for our own soldiers, for our own army, for our own customers, and we are very excited about it.
We also have newly developed products and projects we are preparing for our foreign customers. That’s why we started 2026 by both investing and making preliminary preparations for the new products we will produce.” Stating that they specialize in developing products for extreme conditions, Şahin gave the following information about new products: “We made a new boot cover. We made a waterproof, breathable and warm boot cover.
Apart from this, we designed wearable sleeping bags, new sleeping bags. “We are trying to develop smarter solutions by combining different materials, not only in design but also in technological terms.” Emphasis on locality and sustainability. Emphasizing that they attach great importance to locality in production, Şahin stated that all the raw materials they use, such as fabric and thread, are produced in Turkey. Stating that the designs are completely unique to them and were shaped in line with joint work with military personnel, Şahin said: “We work intensively and our joint work with military personnel in the field and their feedback inspire us.
“We make the products in that way, in line with their recommendations.” Touching on the issue of sustainability, Şahin drew attention to the importance of quality and long-lasting production in terms of environmentalism: “What we have believed in as a business for years is this: The most environmentally friendly product, the highest quality product. The longer you can use a product, maintain the same performance, and not need to replace it, the more environmentally friendly that product is.
That’s why we try to use the best products and best raw materials in all the products we make.”
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