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Jan-21 Mav Elyaf Textile TRY600mn Spunbond plant 34,107 tons Tekirdag
Jan-21 Qua Granite Granite TRY584mn Ceramik tile plant 6.7mn m2 Aydin
Jan-21 Sapro Wet wipe $5mn Production plant 45mn packages Bulgaria
Jan-21 Vivo/China Mobile phone $20mn Montage plant - Istanbul
Jan-21 Yilmaden Holding Mining - Chrome enrichment 300,000 tons Kazakhstan
Jan-21 Huawei/China Mobile phone claim Montage plant - Turkey
Jan-21 Alcatel/China Mobile phone claim Montage plant - Turkey
Jan-21 Tecno Mobile/China Mobile phone $25mn Montage plant - Istanbul
Jan-21 Yunsa (YUNSA) Textile €4mn machinery - Cerkezkoy
Jan-21 Daikin Turkey/Japan Air conditioning $53mn Capacity increase - Sakarya
Jan-21 Aras Kargo Logistics/parcel TRY1bn IT/Operational - Anatolia
Jan-21 Lotte Chemical/Korea Quartz surface - Engineered stone capacity 120,000 units Manisa
Jan-21 Butug Insaat Forestry $5.2mn Production plant 18,000m3 Kazakhstan
Jan-21 Akdeniz Chemson/Oyak Chemicals - Zinc borate plant 3,000 tons Izmir
Jan-21 Sumoteks Ready-wear - Production plant - Kocaeli
Dec-20 StarRefinery Oil $45mn Revision done Izmir
Dec-20 StarRefinery Oil $600mn Storage 0.34mnm3 Izmir
Dec-20 Sasa(SASA) Textile $150mn Chipsplant 0.33mntons Adana
Dec-20 KervanGida Confectionery - Capacityincrease done Akhisar
Dec-20 Aygaz(AYGAZ) LPG $100mn LPGfillingplant - Bangladesh
Dec-20 Xiaomi/China Mobilephone $30mn Montageplant 5mn Istanbul
Dec-20 Samsung/Korea Mobilephone - Montageplant
3mn Istanbul
Dec-20 Oppo/China Mobilephone $50mn Montageplant - Kocaeli
Dec-20 Ford Otosan (FROTO) Automotive TRY22bn Car battery plant/Capacity 0.13mn/0.21mn Kocaeli
Nov-20 LCWaikiki Ready-wearretail TRY3.65bn Newlogisticscenter 0.48mnpallettes Aksaray
Nov-20 Imbat Mining TRY1.5bn Ligniteenrichment 12mntons Manisa
Nov-20 Starwood Forestry TRY1.34bn Woodproducts Expansion Bursa
Nov-20 Ozcanlar Textile TRY798mn Cottonyarn 7.1mnkg Tekirdag
Nov-20 Hayat Chemicals TRY790mn Paperproducts Expansion Mersin
Nov-20 Aselsan Defence TRY229mn Communicationequipment Expansion Ankara
4.5 Labour and income
4.5.1 Labour market, unemployment dynamics
Turkish companies fired nearly 177,000 workers last year despite the “layoff ban”.
Turkey’s broad unemployment figure is around 10mn, 28%, according to labour union DISK.
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