Aydin Bey. Formerly in the Ministry of ....?, (Finance? Investment?Industry?)
Govt. is laying out space for 350 factories, 50,000 workers.
Taken 2.00 - 6.00
2 dual roads and .....{?} roads.
Shipping, banks, sports. Ford tractor factory already working; 4 others under construction. Mostly piles of dirt. Took typical tea in a typically scruffy office with Muteahhit in charge.
Aydin Bey has left Ministry and works fronting for the "parastalat" organisation which runs the whole thing - 5 years.
17 similar sites being built by the government. One in Merdin complete, no buyers at all.
Others in Erzerum, M.....{?}, Samsun, Eshi......{?} etc.
Adana - "unfortunately a lot of development"
Seems to be a typically silly piece of bureaucratic self-aggrandisement at the tax payers/international firms expense. Very full of himself and constantly adulated by Mahzan.
Asked for 500 m. TL and has got TL150m. - one third of his needs. Not many buyers.
Ardicli on bus. Began to buy up cheese and market it.
Now "kŸcŸk esnaf". Mardara in a mobile home in Kars - works with nomads. Markets cheese. Feeling the pinch - sales slow.
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