Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Baszn Öz<strong>et</strong>i<br />
duction, while the construction of 43 othersare currently<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rway. Twenty-two are on the draWihg<br />
board.<br />
Erkan Alemdaroglu, regional <strong>de</strong>velopment director<br />
of the project, said on Sunday that once<br />
GAP is implemented, the income of the<br />
region would increase 4.5 times.<br />
Alemdaroglu explained that research<br />
they carried out entitled 'The Economic<br />
Contribution of the GAP Irrigation<br />
Scheme to Agricultural Production in the<br />
Regio~,".esti.mated regional income - $<br />
800 nulhon 10 1985 and $2.2 billion in<br />
1995 - to reach $3.1 billion by the year<br />
2000, $ 4.7 billion in 2005 and $ 6.6<br />
billion in 2010.<br />
Alemdaroglu, !toting that Turkey<br />
currently has agncultural production<br />
worth $16 billion, un<strong>de</strong>rlined that<br />
the commissioning of GAP<br />
would contribute to a great<br />
extent.<br />
~anhurfa Governor ~ahab<strong>et</strong>tin<br />
Harput said that 300,000 tons of<br />
cotton was produced in ~anhurfa<br />
and Harran Plains in 1996.<br />
Noting that the cotton produced<br />
on these two plains constitutes<br />
one third of the total production<br />
in Turkey, the governor noted<br />
that it provi<strong>de</strong>s an income of<br />
approximately $115 million.<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
MONDAY,MARCH3,1997<br />
Iranian gas <strong>de</strong>al in full swing<br />
The Tebriz-Erzurum leg will<br />
link the eastern city to the<br />
Iranian- Turkmenistani gas<br />
grid by mid-1998; Ankara<br />
to be connected by 1999<br />
Ankara- Turkish Daily News<br />
• The state-owned pipeline company<br />
BOTA~ is to announce the winmng bid for<br />
the Turkish leg of the Iranian natural gas<br />
pipeline project by the.end of this month,<br />
the Anatolia news agency reported. Actual<br />
construction will start by April of this year<br />
to be compl<strong>et</strong>ed by mid-1998.<br />
The pipeline project is part of a multibillion<br />
dollar <strong>de</strong>al Turkey signed with Iran<br />
earlier in 1996 to me<strong>et</strong> increasing domestic<br />
energy <strong>de</strong>mand. As part of a much gran<strong>de</strong>r<br />
scheme, Ankara aspires to become the reexport<br />
center for Middle Eastern and<br />
Central Asian natural gas and oil.<br />
However, since Iran's production is<br />
only just enough to me<strong>et</strong> domestic<br />
<strong>de</strong>mand, only Turkmenistani gas will<br />
reach Turkey until the year 200 lor 2002.<br />
There is an existing pipeline b<strong>et</strong>ween<br />
Turkmenistan and Iran, and so up to Il<br />
billion cubic m<strong>et</strong>ers of Turkme01stani gas<br />
can reach Turkeyevery year when the<br />
Iran-Turkey.leg of the pipeline is compl<strong>et</strong>ed.<br />
Although Iranian natural gas reserves<br />
are second only to Russian reserves,<br />
Iran's production technology needs serious<br />
upgrading before it can begin exporting,<br />
said BOTA~ Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Mustafa Murathan.<br />
Iran is currently pumping about half of its<br />
total gas productIOn back into its oil wells<br />
to keep up its oil production.<br />
The Tebriz-Erzurum leg of the pipc:line,<br />
to be co~Pl.~tfedErzbY mi9~)i~~f,~~)~~)P.~.<br />
eastern City 0 urum fo we J.J.41Uan-<br />
Turkmenistani gas grid with ADkai'a bemg<br />
will be connected by 1999. Iran has<br />
already started the construction its own leg<br />
of the pipeline which will run from the<br />
northern town of Tebriz to the Turkish<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r.<br />
Ra~idly-growing domestic <strong>de</strong>mand and<br />
lucrative re-export opportunities to<br />
Western mark<strong>et</strong>s provi<strong>de</strong> strong incentives<br />
for Ankara to expand its natural gas .<br />
imports. Geographic proximity to major<br />
producers of the commodity place Turkey<br />
at the cutting edge of the mark<strong>et</strong>.<br />
Currently, Turkey imports around 10 .<br />
billion cubic m<strong>et</strong>ers of gas every year from<br />
Russia and Algeria. An agreement has<br />
been reached with Russia to double the<br />
capacity of the existingpipeline passing<br />
through the Balkans and the construction<br />
of a new so. :alled "~tern" pipeline for<br />
Russian gas has also been agreed upon.<br />
When the Balkan and eastern pipeline<br />
projects are compl<strong>et</strong>ed, Turkey will have<br />
more than quadrupled its current imports<br />
from Russia.<br />
However, Ankara does not want to rely<br />
compl<strong>et</strong>ely on its northern neighbor for<br />
such a vital source of energy and is therefore<br />
searching for alternative suppliers.<br />
Therefore the Iranian <strong>de</strong>al is important for.<br />
Ankarato keep its energy import options<br />
open.<br />
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