Infrastructure in Turkey

A comprehensive and superior renaissance in all fields entailed the infrastructure in Turkey:

Turkey has witnessed a comprehensive renaissance in the last twenty years, jumping from the 116th rank in the world economy, at first, to the 11th rank now. The Turkish government promises to join the list of the top ten economies in the world in the coming year 2023 .

This renaissance was accompanied by care in preparing the necessary infrastructure for it, and it was as it should.

1) – About universities and scientific institutes:

Profession Comprehensive Renaissance Scientific renaissance First, a variety of number in the range of fields.

Therefore, there is great interest in universities, and there are currently more than 220 universities. This was over 60. All Turkish states had their luck with universities, or at least branch campuses.

Among those numbers are public, private and endowment universities.

Istanbul alone includes 61 universities, including 14 public universities, 44 endowments, and 3 higher vocational and endowment institutes. There are also intermediate institutes for different types of professions.

A large number of Turkish universities have entered the lists of the most advanced universities in the world. Teaching in universities is generally conducted in three languages, Turkish, English and Arabic. Some of the universities that specialize in one language, and some universities specialize in more than one language.

In pre-university education, the  education is compulsory and free (in public schools) from the age of five until the end of secondary school. There are non-governmental schools, and international schools that operate with the curricula of different countries, and they all charge specific allowances.

the age before 5 years, it is left to the parents and private schools. All these schools are spread in all cities, neighborhoods and villages.

2) – Banks and Istanbul Financial Center:

There are more than fifty banks in Turkey, of which 10 are governmental and the rest are private, including public and specialized ones, and all of them operate according to the highest international standards within the framework of a free economy, and provide diverse and distinguished banking services, and their activity covers all cities, neighborhoods and villages. .

A global financial center is currently being established in the most important location in Istanbul, and its construction is nearing completion, to begin leasing in it, and many institutions, organizations, financing companies, investment portfolio management and banks, both traditional and Islamic, will merge in the center. The center will be equipped with the latest smart technologies.

3) – Internet and information services:

To date, Turkey has launched ten satellites to cover the needs of all population centers in the country with telecommunications and Internet services, and there are many competing companies to provide Internet services with high speeds of up to 100 megabytes, and five of these companies have a wide and superior activity. And there are many companies to provide Informatics services.

4) – Medical cities and hospitals:

In Turkey, there are more than twenty major medical cities equipped with the latest devices and technologies, distributed over the area of ​​Turkey, some of which are comparable to the largest medical cities in Europe, providing their services according to the highest international standards.

The medical city in Ankara, which opened its doors to patients in February 2019, has a closed area of ​​1,312,000 square meters and includes 3,711 beds, 131 operating rooms, 506 intensive care beds, 904 outpatient clinics, and 2,263 hospitalization rooms.

As well as the medical city in Istanbul (Başakşehir), which is a complex of eight hospitals for various specialties, which opened its doors to reviewers in May 2020, and its closed area is one million square meters, in addition to an open area estimated at 790,000 square meters, and contains It has 2,682 beds, 90 operating rooms, 725 outpatient clinics and 456 intensive care beds. There are 1,300 doctors, 3,000 nurses and 115 academics working in this medical city for research, testing and training. for the smallest medical cities, their size is no less than half of one of these two cities. This is in addition to the many large hospitals and medical centers distributed in all Turkish cities.

5) – Airports:

Turkey has about 58 civil airports, including international airports in major cities and domestic airports in other cities. And there are 3 airports in Istanbul, including Istanbul Airport, which is in the European section of the city, and the latest one, which opened and began operating in 2019, is the first in Europe and the second in the world in terms of its breadth, operational capacity and efficiency. It is equipped with six runways and has a capacity of five hundred aircraft, and is scheduled to accommodate 200 million passengers a year. These airports offer the highest levels of service.

6) Highways and transportation:

In Turkey, there are major highways with the highest specifications that connect most of its cities.

It includes internal transportation, aviation, express trains, regular trains, advanced electric trains, and the metro, in addition to various well-known means of transportation.

And there are many factories for the production of cars and locomotives of all kinds.

7) – seaports and shipping:

Turkey has a large number of large seaports, some of which are considered among the ten largest in the world.

Among the most prominent Turkish ports: Ambarli port on the Bosphorus coast in Istanbul – Kocaeli port on the Black Sea near the most important industrial areas in Turkey, and near Istanbul – Port of Istanbul, which is a passenger transport station on sea lines – Haydarpasa port for transporting goods in Istanbul – Port Izmir – Iskenderun Port – Mersin Port – Trabzon Port – Bursa Port.

And there are many distinguished shipping and transport companies in Turkey, which help in facilitating maritime shipping operations, and which had a role in activating import and export operations.

8) – Bridges and tunnels:

In Istanbul, there are three huge suspension bridges over the Bosphorus. There is a huge tunnel that connects the European and Asian sections of Istanbul and passes under the waters of the strait (Marmaray Tunnel) with a length of 14 km, including 1.4 km under the waters of the strait, consisting of two floors for the passage of cars, trains and the metro line in both directions. And it accommodates the passage of 150,000 people per hour. It took nine years to complete it at a cost of 3 billion euros.

9) New Istanbul Canal:

It is an artificial channel parallel to the Bosphorus Strait, on the European side of the city, with a length of 45 km, a distance of 30 km from the strait, a base width of 275 meters, and a depth of 2075 meters. It connects between the Sea of ​​Marmara and the Black Sea. It is currently being constructed, and it leads To form an island between the strait and the canal, bordered by a shore on the Black Sea, the Sea of ​​Marmara, the Bosphorus Strait, and the New Canal. Work on it began in 2013, after the necessary studies were completed, and the necessary studies and plans were prepared for the reconstruction of the areas surrounding the canal, which will practically form a new city.

This channel initially aims to reduce the traffic congestion of ships in the Bosphorus Strait, and will be able to accommodate the passage of 160 ships per day. The canal will be accompanied by the construction of ports, a large container terminal on the Black Sea near Istanbul’s new airport, and logistics centers. Several new artificial islands will also be created by the soil resulting from the excavation of the canal, and the area will be connected by express trains.

And in March of this year 2022, the construction of the first portable bridge on the canal began at the site of the Dardanelles Strait in the Gallipoli region, with a length of 4 km, linking the continent of Asia and the continent of Europe, and it is expected to be completed in the next year 2023.

10) Water networks:

Clean drinking water networks cover all areas of residential communities in the country. Irrigation water networks cover the vast majority of agricultural lands.

Turkey has more than 600 water dams, some of which are comparable to the largest dams in the world, and some of them produce a total of 31 thousand megawatts of electrical energy per hour, and thus it is considered the first in Europe and the second in the world in this respect.

11) Electricity:

Turkey produces its entire needs of electric energy without any deficit. About 57% of it comes from sources such as coal and natural gas. And the rest comes from clean, renewable sources (hydroelectric plants, wind and solar energy). Turkey ranks fifth among the Group of Twenty in renewable energy production.

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