In the face of rising cyberattacks, the government is looking to boost its cyberdefenses with locally-made software.

Science, Industry and Technology Ministry and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), a state-run science and research agency will offer incentives for local software developers for cybersecurity software. Incentives as much as TL 3 million ($1 million) per software projects will be available for developers.

Turkey aims to cover loopholes in cybersecurity with software focusing on detecting abnormal activity in web traffic as most attacks targeting the country comprise of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The country was a victim of 10 days of cyberattacks last December, targeting websites with the .tr domain. The culprits behind the attacks are unknown. Nic.tr, a nongovernmental body that administers addresses for websites using the .tr domain, including ministries, the military, banks and many commercial sites, said they originated from "organized sources" outside Turkey. The disruptive traffic, known as a DDoS attacks, in which thousands of computers targeted at specific internet targets, resulted in web speeds plummeting at some sites.

Experts say entirely domestic software might help fighting the attacks in a more secure ways as foreign-made security software are more often than not open to exploitation.

Turkey already adopted an action plan for cybersecurity with new regulations to punish perpetrators and the establishment of an "intervention center" to fight the attacks, along with the deployment of cybersecurity teams in public agencies.

Ankara has also launched a training program for "white hat hackers" or experts specialized on detecting flaws in cybersecurity systems in 2014. White hat hackers have been used by large corporations including Microsoft, Apple and Facebook as well as government and military institutes across the world such as the United States' NSA, NATO and Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps.