Around 15 years prior, the government began moving with an alternate methodology towards Turkey’s revolutions and vision of 2023.
Any individual who has followed Turkey as of late; can see the degree of Turkey’s enthusiasm for accomplishing the objectives of the Vision 2023 arrangement. Some may ridicule this, however as time passes, it appears to be that the nation is harvesting the products of difficult work.
1-The transportation Revolution
First of Turkey’s revolutions and vision of 2023; are the transport and communications sector in the field with the most crowded achievements related to large projects in Turkey.
- Yavuz Selim Bridge
During 2013 the “Marmaray” train line was going under the Bosphorus; transporting 1.5 million passengers per day; before the construction of the Yavuz Selim Bridge in 2016, which crosses 135.000 cars a day.
- “Eurasia” tunnel
In the same year, the “Eurasia” tunnel; opened a length of 14.6 km, reduce the transportation time between the Asian and European sides of Istanbul at peak hours from 100 minutes to only 15 minutes.
- Istanbul Airport
Istanbul Airport, which opened in late 2018, is one of the new sources of huge income in Turkey. Since it began operating at full capacity in April of 2019, it has been used by 52.5 million passengers, who are half the number of Turkish airports users in 2019, which amounted to about 104.2 million passengers.
2-The Industrial Revolution
Without oil, natural gas, or even precious metals, Turkey last year achieved a record in the value of its exports, which exceeded 180 billion dollars, and plans to raise them to 190 billion by the end of 2020.
- Industrial production
Industrial production represents the most important source of hard currency, as Turkey actually began producing its national car with 100% local technology early this year, while the revenues from manufacturing and exporting cars and parts during 2019 amounted to nearly $ 32 billion.
The apparel industry is a remarkable economic powerhouse in Turkey, where the value of its exports increased last year to more than $ 17 billion.
- Arms Market
As for the arms market, Turkey has made huge leaps , moving it from the importer to the self-manufacturing circle to the exporting country, after the volume of its exports reached $ 18.3 billion between 2002 and 2018, while total sales in the same period reached $ 64.9 billion.
- Techno parks Centers
In the fields of technology, the number of “Techno parks” centers that include Turkish technology companies increased from two centers in 2001 to 84 centers in 2019, distributed over 56 Turkish cities.
- Production Automation
Turkey is currently working on implementing “production automation” programs that will enable it to increase the value of manufacturing exports to 210 billion dollars in 2023, and is seeking to increase the share of research and development expenditures to 1.8% of the state budget.
- Pharmaceutical Industries
As for the pharmaceutical industries, their exports reached $ 1.17 billion in 2018, while the total value of medical tourism in Turkey is about five hundred billion dollars, as the medical sector is looking to provide twenty billion dollars of tourism revenues by 2023.
3-Energy Revolution
The inauguration of the “Turkish Torrent” line, to transport Russian gas to Europe via Turkish territory. This project – which secures half of Turkey’s natural gas needs -; will transform the country from a gas importer to a commercial center for it.
Today, Turkey generates about 46% of its energy needs from renewable energy projects; to invest the energy of the sun and wind, and looks forward to raising it to 56% by 2023, and has established ambitious projects in the states of Edirne and Fethiye to produce energy from waste recycling, as well as the Aak Guoyu nuclear plant that has been completed.
4-Tourism Revolution
As for the famous Turkish tourism market; the growth reached an extent that was reflected in the giant operational capacity of airports and means of transport and transportation, as the number of tourists in 2019 alone reached more than 58 million.
The volume of tourism and foreign visits was reflected in the output of major investment sectors in the country; such as hotels and real estate trade, from which a million and 375 thousand and 398 apartments were sold to foreigners during 2019 alone.
5-Economic Revolution
Finally, the last of Turkey’s revolutions and vision of 2023 is its economy; especially after its recovery in 202; as it has succeeded in reducing the inflation rate from about 20% at the beginning of 2019; to 12% at the end of the year.
Turkey’s GDP recorded an increase of 2.8% in 2019; compared to the same period of the previous year, while the per capita share reached 45,750 Turkish liras in 2018.
In 2019, HSBC Holdings Group ranked Turkey seventh in the world; as the best country to live and work. While its army maintained its position at the forefront of the region’s armies and the tenth power in the world.
The last decade witnessed a giant revolution in consumer industries; especially with regard to food products and tools. Also, witnessed a leap in the fields of marine industries, exporting minerals, steel, furniture, furnishings, and others.