Economic: the Turks payouts to investors in the Kurdistan Region amounted to $ 4.5 billion
(Voice of Iraq) - 04/11/2009
PNA - economic expert said that the profits of investors Turks in Kurdistan Region to 4.5 billion dollars, indicating that 400 companies and 15 thousand workers Turk working in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq since 2003.
He said, "Musa Mohammed" "There are 400 companies investing in Iraq, Turkey, and since 2003, until the Turks won the investors $ 4.5 billion in the Kurdistan Region."
He disclosed that 15 thousand workers are now Turkey in the Kurdistan Region and Turkey is a country lacking in energy, oil and natural gas, and buy annually $ 28 billion worth of oil, gas and coal from Iraq, Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
He noted that the private sector constitutes 94% of the Turkish economy, Turkey, therefore, several companies operating in the oil sector in the Kurdistan Region and the territory will be strategically future source of oil and gas for Turkey.
For his part, said Kamran Mufti Manager vacations in the Kurdistan Region Investment Authority, told "AKnews" that leaves about 210 investment granted by the Kurdistan Region has been run more than $ 17 billion in investment, thanks to the holidays, including those carried out directly by the companies of Turkey and the implemented jointly with local companies.
For his part, Turkish Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Zafr Aglian at a trade seminar between the common the Kurdistan Region and Turkey, "a lot of wasted time and may the conditions are suitable for building the common ties between Turkey and the Kurdistan Region."
And through the Turkish Minister of State, "Our goal is to develop and consolidate the economic relations between Turkey and Iraq, so we came with 80 of the owners of capital and Turkish traders to exchange views with their peers regarding the promotion of trade relations between the parties."
The Aglian "increased Turkish investment in Kurdistan Region at rates ranging between 30% and 50%, and I hope that this percentage will increase in the future," pointing to "the formation of a joint committee to expand economic relations between the Kurdistan Region and Turkey."
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