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Investments in Turkey and Kurdistan
9.2.2006
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg Journalist - Netherlands
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The New Anatolian
happily reported that Istanbul received the biggest
share in investment incentives in 2005. A
significant part (21.3 pct) of the investments which
received incentive certificates from the Treasury in
2005 was made in İstanbul. The share which was taken
by 13 provinces in Turkey from the private sector
investments in 2005 was under 0.01 pct.
While İstanbul received the highest share with 21.3
percent from the incentive-investments in 2005, 55.3
percent of the investments in Turkey were made in
the top five provinces. The share which was taken by
13 provinces in Turkey from the private sector
investments in 2005 was under 0.01 percent.
Something that can be concluded is that cities with
a Kurdish majority aren’t in the list of the highest
investments and are among the lowest investments,
like the Kurdish province of Hekkari and Merdin.
Many Kurds complain that the government has not done
enough to relieve their chronic poverty. But Erdogan
last year made it clear that Ankara planned no
industrial investments in the region, calling on
local businessmen to take the initiative under a
recently introduced scheme of incentives. |
Vladimir van Wilgenburg
Journalist - Netherlands |
Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir, a leading Kurdish
politician, welcomed Erdogan’s promise for a
democratic settlement of the Kurdish question.
Currently he is on a trip to America. He will visit
America together with six businessmen. He will go to
Nashville, Tennessee, Washington D.C. and New York.
This visit is planned to develop a sister-city
project between Amed [Diyarbakir] and Nashville.
Earlier the mayor complained that there weren’t
enough investments in Diyarbakir and that finance
money from the EU flows to the Turkish top
provinces.
Highest investments:
1. Istanbul YTL 5.1 billion
2. Antalya YTL 2.2 billion
3. Tekirdag YTL 1.2 billion
4. Ankara YTL 1.1 billion
5. Izmir YTL 1 billion
6. Bursa YTL 826 million
7. Kahramanmaraş YTL 807 million
8. Gaziantep YTL 781 million
9. Kocaeli YTL 715 million
10. Kütahya YTL 603 million.
11. Konya YTL 527 million.
12. Muğla YTL 406 million
13. Balıkesir YTL 396 million
14. Manisa YTL 84 million
15. Düzce YTL 349 million
16. Eskişehir YTL 317 million
17. Adana YTL 301 million
18. Osmaniye YTL 293 million
19. Sakarya YTL 273 million
20. Zonguldak YTL 262 million
21. Afyon YTL 246 million
22. Hatay YTL 240 million
Lowest amount share in investments (in pct)
Bayburt and Iğdır [K](0.001 pct)
Ardahan and Sinop (0.002 pct)
Karabük, Bitlis, Muş [K]and Bingöl [K] (0.003 pct)
Dersim [K] (0.004 pct)
Ağrı [K]and Kilis (0.005 pct)
Batman [K] (0.006 pct)
Gümüşhane (0.008 pct).
Burdur, Mardin [K], Kars [K], Rize, Hakkari [K],
Erzincan[K], Artvin, Edirne, Yalova and Çankırı were
the provinces which received lower amounts of
investments according to the New Anatolian.
[K] = Kurdish
Source: The New Anatolian
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