Transcript Come
Come !
Come whoever you are
Doesn't matter if you are an
unbeliever.
Doesn't matter if you have fallen a
thousand times.
Come!
Come whoever you are. For this is not
the door of hopelessness.
Come,
Just as you are!
(MEVLANA)
SOME REASONS TO INVEST IN TURKEY
• One of the fastest growing economies in
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the world
Abundance of natural resources,
Its geographical proximity to the export
markets,
Developments
in
infrastructure
and
telecommunication systems,
The existence of a large domestic market
and the liberal economic policies in force.
• Freedom to investment,
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– Freedom of profit transfers,
– Acquisition of real estate,
– Settlement of disputes, international
arbitration,
– Assessment of the value of non-cash
capital,
– Employment of foreign personnel, and
– Opening liaison offices
There are no restrictions on foreign portfolio
investors trading in the Turkish capital markets.
Real persons and legal entities residing abroad
(including investment trusts and investment funds
abroad) can freely purchase and sell all sorts of
securities and other capital market instruments.
TURKISH ECONOMY WITH
NUMBERS
Million USD
GROSS DOMESTIC INCOME
INFLATION
90.00%
80.00%
70.00%
60.00%
50.00%
40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
0.00%
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Exports (.000 $)
140,000,000
120,000,000
100,000,000
80,000,000
60,000,000
40,000,000
20,000,000
0
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Imports (.000 $)
250 000 000
200 000 000
150 000 000
100 000 000
50 000 000
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Company establishment in Turkey
Approval of main
pact of the
company by notary
Placement of 0,02%
of company capital
to Central Bank
Registration of
“Company
establishment form”
Now you can start
doing business
Registration the
company to Tax
administration
Establishment
of Company !!!
And these
procedures can be
accomplished in one
business day only.
You can reach;
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300 millions of people by 2 hours flight
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750 millions of people by 3 hours flight
• 1.150 millions of people by 4 hours flight
from Turkey
Turkey is Europe’s:
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1st television producer
1st artificial fertilizer producer
6th refrigerator producer
7th iron and steel producer
7th automotive industry and biggest
developing market.
KONYA
• Population
• Area
• Export Amount
• Cereal amounts
sugar beet.
: 1.959.082
: 38.257 Km2
: 1,5 billion $ in 2008
: in 2007 approx. 2.407.200 tons cereal and 4.725.606 tons
(records of TUIK)
KONYA STRENGTHS
• Strategic location between West and East
• Capital of Anatolia (historic magnet for the region, entrepreneur spirit that
comes from past)
• Diversified activities (Reduced risk of economic crisis)
•30.000.000 m² total area in 3 industrial and other private Industrial Zones
• Techno park
• Selçuk University (3.000 lecturer 85,000 students), specialized in various
fields and engineering
• Cereal warehouse of Turkey
• Availability of cheap, flat lands with low rents (largest available area of
Turkey), almost no danger of earthquake
KONYA STRENGTHS
• Dry air favoring metal resistance
• Rapid growth of qualified work force - 80,000 workers in industrial areas.
Young, skilled open minded population
• Developed industrial manufacturing in
Automotive spare parts,
Flour milling machinery - well-known city in the world
Food industry,
Chemical industry,
Footwear,
Plastic products,
Agricultural machinery - 65 % of national agricultural machinery
production is in Konya
KONYA
Konya which is established on
one of the oldest civiliziaton
regions
(Çatalhöyük
region,
7.000
BC)
had
been
an
important centre for agriculture,
transit trade ( on the Silk Road)
and industry in the past due to
its location as a passage
between East and West.
Konya is one of the important
regions in automotive industry
with its three organised industry
zones located in the centre.
Almost 9000 companies are
active in 31 industrial zones in
Konya
150 companies in 1st Organised Industry Zone, which
has been established on an area of 1.150.000 m2
manufacture products for automotive subsidiary industry
and agricultural machinery.
Almost 300 companies are active in the KOS –
Konya Organised Industrial Zone that covers
25.000.000 m2.
L O G I S T I C S:
ROADS:
Konya-Istanbul
Konya-Ankara
Konya-Antalya (port)
Konya-Mersin (port)
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668
258
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280
Km
Km
Km
Km
AIRLINES :
There are daily flights to and from
İstanbul which allows reaching almost every corner of
Turkey and other countries via connection flights
Geographical Position of Konya and
RAILWAY CONNECTION Possibilities
Distances to ports by rail
Black Sea
Mersin 397 kms
Samsun
İskenderun 518 kms
İzmir 684 kms
Bandırma
Derince 652 kms
Erzurum
Samsun 1000
kms
Konya
Kayseri Bandırma 719 kms
Gaziantep
Agean Sea
Antalya
Iskenderun
Mediterranean Sea
Konya
Future Connection Plans to
Neighbouring Countries
KONYA
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT CITY
OF THE FUTURE…
fDi Magazine - Magazine on Foreign Direct Investment which is a
publication of famous press institution Financial Times, biannually
organises a competition that attracts cities and regions of Europe
from Vienna to Zurich, from Lazio to Canary Islands. Konya was
choosen second in the category of cities with Best Economic
Potential ”Runner Up”…
Application to the competition of ‘European Cities and Regions of the Future’ and all the preperations were
made by Konya Chamber of Industry.
KONYA METROPOLITAN
MUNICIPALITY PROVIDES LOW
PRICED LANDS AND FREE
INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE
POTENTIAL INVESTORS.
FORTHCOMING
PROJECTS
•SPEED TRAIN between Konya and Ankara, Capital city of Turkey. It
will take 1 hour and 15 minutes only to reach Ankara. Also it will be
possible to reach Istanbul by this railway line.
•KONYA LOWLANDS IRRIGATION PROJECT
Konya Lowlands Irrigation Project (KLI) is the second most important
irrigation project of Turkey after GAP – South East Anatolia Project
By the investments made until today 308 073 hectares of land had
water and increasing this amount to 617 923 hectares is aimed.
•BLUE TUNNEL PROJECT will make water agriculture available for
approximately %50 of the Konya Lowland.
With the realization of the project yearly 414 million cubicmeter of
water will revitalize the fruitful lands of Konya.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SECTORS WITH
THESE PROJECTS
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IN FOOD PROCESSING
- Yearly two harvest ;
- Cheap and plentiful raw materials;
- Frozen, dried and packed food
- Paste and other canned food
- Vegetable oil
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IN AGRICULTURE BASED INDUSTRIES
- Contractual agriculture
- Production of industrial oil plants
- Production of bio-diesel made of industrial crops
• IN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
• Drip irrigation
• Sprinkling, pressure systems
• IN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
• Manufacturing and selling of agricultural machinery
KONYA COUSINE IS RICH
AND IT IS POSSIBLE TO
FIND FOOD PRODUCTS OF
DIFFERENT REGIONS AND
COUNTRIES.
THE CAPITAL OF
SMES, KONYA IS THREE
HOURS AWAY FROM
THE POPULAR TOURIST
DESTINATIONS
OF
TURKEY
SUCH
AS
ANTALYA AND TWO
HOURS AWAY FROM
CAPADOCCIA.
AS
TOLERANT PEOPLE
OF KONYA, PEOPLE
OF THE CITY OF
Hz. MEVLANA WHO
SAYS
“ A NEW WORLD IS ESTABLISHED IN
EVERY BREATH ”
AND
‘COME, COME WHOEVER YOU ARE'
ARE OPEN TO
MULTICULTURAL
ENVIRONMENT
• Konya is one of the rare cities which has achieved industrialization and
regular unrbanization at the same time.
• Konya is a city of peace, crime rates are very low.
Yesterday is past
and gone –
so are your words
of yesterday:
How lovely to find
for each new day
something fresh to
say.
Hz. Mevlana
ONE STOP SHOP
For Learning Industrial Investment Conditions
and Business Environment in KONYA
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