Competitive Power and Competitiveness: Comparison of Italy and Turkey in Machinery and Automotive Sectors

CURA, Fatih | GÜNDÜZ, Mehmet Akif | ÜZÜMCÜOĞLU, Mine

The automotive and the automotive supply industry are major contributors to a country's economy. The automotive and automotive supply industry in Turkey are heaped up especially in Marmara Region as well as in other regions and made considerable progress during past years. Bursa, Istanbul, Izmir, Kocaeli, Konya, Ankara, Adana and Manisa are cities, with high industiral density, which play an important role to keep the industry alive. The automotive and automotive supply industry, which started to operate in the mid-1950s, continued to gain momentum in the 1960s. In 1966, the mass automobile pr ...Daha fazlası