Ali Arpacıoglu

Biography

Adeka was established as the first  pharmaceutical manufacturing company within Anatolia. At the time, several other businesses had begun to manufacture pharmaceuticals in Turkey. These companies, however, were based in Istanbul. Adeka saw a need for the regional production of these products; as a result, we chose to establish ourselves in 1956 in Samsun located on the Black Sea coast roughly 700 kilometers from Istanbul. Though this has changed in the past 60 years and today there are companies that operate in other areas of Turkey such as Ankara,Adana, Konya and Izmir, we remain the most diversified manufacturer operating outside of Istanbul for the product forms that we produce, holding true to the vision upon which we were established.

Research Interest

  In response to the Turkish government’s  regulatory policies, the focus of R&D centers in the Turkish pharmaceutical industry has been mainly characterized by a strong emphasis on development. Turkish pharmaceutical manufacturers have sought to reposition products that are innovated outside of the country through this focus on development. On the other hand, low margins in pharmaceuticals leaves little prospect for the Turkish pharmaceutical industry to invest in research. For Adeka, the consequence of this has been that many of the products that we develop and seek to launch – countless, in fact – cannot be brought to the market because as soon as we do so, we take a loss due to the ongoing low prices. Under these circum-stances, the industry focuses more on the development of value-added generics.