OPPO’s Istanbul Factory Becomes the First to Assemble the Brand Outside China — Now It Wants to Make Weapons (opens in new tab)

Inside a 13,000-square-metre facility in Istanbul's Tuzla district, a handset rolls off the assembly line every 16 seconds — and the company running it holds something no other firm outside China has ever secured: a licence to manufacture and market OPPO phones on the Chinese tech giant's behalf. Now its chairman wants a defence contract.