Turkey Investment Report: Assessing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

This report provides an analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) opportunities and challenges in Turkey. It begins with an overview of Turkey's strategic geographic location, favorable political environment, and its ranking as the 17th country in the world in terms of nominal gross domestic product. The report examines external environmental factors, including political, economic, social, and technological influences, highlighting Turkey's democratic government, membership in the European Union, and free trade policies. It discusses economic growth, social factors such as increasing population and per capita income, and technological advancements, particularly in communication technologies. The report also addresses national resources, foreign currency exchange fluctuations, trade policies, barriers, and existing levels of FDI. Recommendations include adopting the Euro as the primary currency, implementing single-window policies for foreign direct investments, and lifting restrictions from restricted sectors to attract more foreign investments. The conclusion emphasizes Turkey's vast natural resources and strategic geographical location as major advantages for attracting foreign investments, while acknowledging complexities in regulations and documentation as potential barriers. The report references various sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

Investment in Turkey

Introduction
• Foreign direct investment is one of the most
popular concept in the recent time.
• It helps the organizations in having more market
opportunities.
• It helps the countries to have more growth of
economy.

Country overview
• Turkey situated in the Eurasian region.
• It is strategically located with European region on
one side and Asian countries on other.
• Currently, they are ranked as 17th country in the
world in terms of nominal gross domestic product.
• Favorable political environment.

External environmental
factors in Turkey
• Turkey is having diverse environments.
• Different positive and negative factors will be
faced by the organizations.
• They will face various challenges and
opportunities.

Political factors
• Turkey is having democratic and republic type of
government.
• Turkey is the member of European Union.
• They follows free trade policies.

Economic factors
• Currently, Turkey is having economy growth rate
of 1.8 percent.
• Growth rate of Turkey will stay positive in the
coming years till 2020.
• Favorable government budget balance.
• Turkey is ranked at 54 in terms of government
budget balance.

Social factors
• Turkey is having favorable social environment in
the country.
• With the increase in population and per capita
income in the country, the market demand in
Turkey is also witnessing growth.
• One of the major social challenges that will be
faced by the investors in Turkey is the quality of
the education and training in the country.

Technological factors
• Turkey is witnessing huge growth in technological
development.
• Communication technologies are the major
portion of technological advancements in the
country.
• According to the report by Global Competitive
Index, Turkey is ranked at 57 in terms of
availability of latest technologies.