Turkey Offers to Export Transportation Technology

Istanbul, Turkey | October 11, 2007 by D-8 Secretariat

Following cooperation plans between its TVA (Tepe Akfen Airports) with Egyptian company in airport expansion projects in Alexandria, Egypt, Turkey is expanding her economic cooperation plans by vending its technology and know-how in the field of transportation to the world, as said by Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim in September.

Yildirim noted that manufacturing plants are not set up only to produce a country’s own needs, but also for neigbouring countries. He said that Turkey is now able to produce high-speed trains, as well as production facilities for rail and sheet steel for shipbuilding for export purposes. In an exclusive interview with Turkish newspaper of Today’s Zaman last September, Yildirim said they had the same aim in satellite production. “Now we are very concerned about how committed we can become in satellite technology and how much money we can spare from our investment budget,” he noted.

Turkey is mulling satellite technology research and development with a price tag of around $120 million, Yildirim noted, adding that this would at least teach the country how to progress in the field. For him software is the important point in such big projects, not the production itself. “We may get it built somewhere else. What matters is the design and software,” he asserted. Yildirim, who retained his seat in the new Cabinet, made some remarks about his ministry’s plans for the new term. The ministry’s essential purpose is to make citizens’ lives easier and more comfortable, Yildirim underlined. “Your success or failure depends upon your ability to mobilize your opportunities and capabilities in an efficient way within a very limited time. If you keep working in the entrenched, monotonous way of doing business in your ministry, that would be the easier way. This is the way of a comfortable ministry. You receive compliments, your coffee is always ready and you enjoy your life. But time flows like fast-running water, and one day you see that you have left no permanent, pleasant sound,” he warned. “There is another way, the hard one. You disturb yourself; forget the joy of your ministry’s comfortable seat. But this time, you get the pleasant taste of serving your people. This is all about preferences,” he said to Today’s Zaman.

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