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ECONOMY
TRANSPORTATION
As the surface area of Turkey is wide, three borders are surrounded
by seas and as Turkey is a passageway country between Asia and
Europe, the transportation sector holds a major importance in the
economy of the country. The transportation sector in Turkey is
composed of land, sea, air, railroad and pipeline transportation
activities. The studies concerning the improvement and coordination
of inland and foreign services of the transportation sector is
supervised and executed by the Ministry of Transportation. Parallel
to the new developments, studies of founding a new separate sub unit
in charge of coordination between the organizations acting at the
transportation sub sectors under the control of the Ministry of
Transportation is in progress. The number of employment in the
transportation sector which assists the development of Turkish
economic conditions had exceeded on five hundred thousand employees
by the year 1998. 21.7 percent of the total stable investments by
the public sector is realized to the transportation sector in 1998.
The transportation sector, with the communication sector, forms
approximately 14 percent of the gross domestic production of Turkey.
At the inland freight transportation, highways hold the majority
with the proportion of 87.4 percent. This proportion is 5.5 percent
in railroad transportation, 5.3 percent in sea transportation and
1.8 percent in pipeline transportation. 95 percent of the inland
passenger transportation is done by highways.
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