The Economic Setting Turkey offers the investor a unique range of assets. For the past three decades, Turkey has been the fastest growing economy in Europe, a country in transformation, with rapidly developing financial markets, a dynamic entrepreneurial class, a fast-growing industrial base, and a vigorous consumer society. Its industrialists and contractors have helped it become a regional power, committed to the West, interlinked with the Middle East, and emerging as a center for investment and business development in the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Particularly striking are the triangular partnerships formed by leading Western companies, Turkish investors and the newly independent countries of the Black Sea and Caspian.
Turkey has the largest manufacturing base between Italy and India.
Its rich range of crops makes it a major exporter of agricultural products and processed food. It is one of Europe's largest suppliers of textiles, clothing and refrigerators. Its traders cover the region, taking advantage of Turkey's pivotal position controlling the land routes between Europe and Asia and the sea routes between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Turkish trucks speed to Munich and Madrid, Moscow and Teheran and all points in between. And Turkey's commercial fleet plies the world.