From: orhan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Orhan Mehmet Arsel)
Subject: Re: Equal PPP means Equal Living Standards, except for ....
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 00:16:57 GMT

In article <199204121327.AA21228@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
>
>If this is how I read it, could you explain the difference in things like
>car registrations, TV ownership, telephones, airline miles travelled,
>number of airports, etc that, presumably, since they are purchased with
>salaries which adjust to be the same, should be similar for each country.
>Please do not quote Prof. Unknown from Faraway State University, just a
>SIMPLE answer to the following simple statement:

>Turkiye, 15 or so. Yet car output was something like 100,000 cars a year.
>For all models. That translates to maybe 10,000 cars a year from a single
>plant. Basic cars i.e. Otosan Taunus 1600 GL, 1960's vintage.  me on this.
>Most car factories have been around for 5 years if not more, and most cars
>are made from scratch Can you, a knowledgeable reader and writer of world
>
>>  Today, there are more than one million color TV units in the country.
>
>There's more than that in Greece, at 6 times less size. 
>
>>  More than one million sets are exported yearly, all of them being
>>  produced locally. This is the best evidence of what Turkiye has achieved
>>  in the field of telecommunications.
>
>Assembling TV's? Or do you make the entire TV (design, chips & tube)??
>
>> I therefore venture to say that Turkiye
>>  is ahead of Greece as far as the television networks and services
>>  are concerned. And all these foregoing achievements have materialized
>>  despite a high population growth.
>
>Do you have (or plan to) free TV? Radio? Cable TV? CNN? MTV? Satellite TV? 
>

The overall production of automobiles in Turkey has increased to 200,000
in 1991. The 100,000 figure is about two years old and does not reflect
the huge jump in demand.  Out of this 200,000, about 50 % (100,000) is
produced by one single company, TOFAS (Turkish Automobile Factories) in
which FIAT of Italy has 50 % share. TOFAS started to produce the new
Fiat Tempra models at the same time with Fiat in mid 1991. The second
largest producer is OYAK/Renault, a consortium between the Turkish 
government and Renault of France, which produces about 50,000 vehicles
a year. Models produced are Renault 9, 11, 12, and 21 (all of them except
12 are in production in France). The rest of the production is divided
among the smaller producers such as Otosan, Opel. Assuming that the 
current production rate does not change, Turkish companies will have
produced about the total number of cars in Greece in about 5 years.
But the demand is still rising sharply (another evidence of rising 
purchase power) and TOFAS announced to increase production to 200,000
by 1995. In addition, Toyota started a joint venture with Sabanci Holding
of Turkey (again a 50-50 share) to produce 100,000 vehicles annualy
starting next year. The construction of the plant is under way. 
As a result, the total automobile production in Turkey is estimated to
reach half a million vehicles by 1996 (a ten fold increase in ten years).
In addition, the import quotas and taxes are being eased, which resulted
in 50,000 imports last year. About 10 % of the vehicles produced in Turkey
are exported. In addition, many producers supply parts to their parent
companies in Europe (if you know anybody driving a Renault in Europe,
you can tell them that their car possibly has an engine produced in Turkey).

I happened to work at the leading television producer in Turkey (Bekoteknik).
It was started as a joint venture between Hitachi and Koc Holding of Turkey.
Later the Turkish partner bought all the shares. Currently the company
is producing about 1.5 million TV sets annually and exports half of them
to Europe. The TVs are designed in the factory and about 80% of the parts
are local. Total TV production in Turkey is about  2.5 million and 
1.5 million are exported each year. This leaves 1 million sets for the
local market annually. This means that there are much more than one
million TV sets in the Turkish households (although I do not know the 
exact number).

Private TV stations were legalized at the end of last year. Currently
there  are six state sponsored and three private TV stations in Turkey.
In addition about 20 satellite channels are available including CNN
BBC, RAI, EuroSport, and couple of German channels. Interestingly,
when I was on the island of Kos last summer, the TV in the hotel's lobby
was tuned to TRT 1 (first Turkish state sponsered channel). Also, cable TV
network is being built by the Turkish PTT in the larger cities and
broadcasting is expected to start next year (my family has even paid
the subscription fee).

Sincerely,

Orhan
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