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Turkey foreign investment slowdown

Dutch entrepreneurs topped the list of foreign investors in Turkey in 2014, as the number of foreign companies exceeded 41,000, despite the insecure climate that has emerged in Turkey in terms of democracy and the rule of law.
Employees work at the assembly line of a Karsan automotive  factory in Bursa February 17, 2011. Turkish automotive company Karsan began production after it signed a strategic partnership deal with Italian bus builder BredaMenarinibus to manufacture Italian company's buses in its Akcalar plant in Bursa. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEYTRANSPORT - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS) - RTR2IPVU
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Turkey’s Economy Ministry published in December 2014 a comprehensive, 22-page report on international direct investments in Turkey. Based on this report, Al-Monitor has created a profile of foreign investment in the country.

Let’s first look at the table covering the period from 1954 to October 2014. The number of active companies involving international capital has reached 41,131 in six decades, including 6,257 Turkish companies with foreign partners. Foreigners are mostly present in the wholesale and retail sector, where 14,371 companies operate. The real estate sector comes second with 6,619 foreign companies, followed by the manufacturing industry, where 5,652 companies operate, producing mostly chemicals, food, beverages, tobacco and textiles.

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