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Country profile: Turkey
Location: | Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia |
Climate: | temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior |
Terrain: | high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges |
Size: | 780580 sq. km total (Land area: 770760 sq. km Water area: 9820 sq.km) |
Population: | 71,892,807 (July 2008 est.) |
Languages: | Turkish (official), Kurdish, Dimli (or Zaza), Azeri, Kabardian note: there is also a substantial Gagauz population in the European part of Turkey |
Government: | republican parliamentary democracy |
Capital city: | Ankara |
Legal system: | civil law system derived from various European continental legal systems; note - member of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although Turkey claims limited derogations on the ratified European Convention on Human Rights |
Currency: | Turkish lira (TRY); old Turkish lira (TRL) before |
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Energy production and consumption
Oil | Gas | |
Production: | 45,460 bbl/day (2005 est.) | 860 million cu m (2005 est.) |
Consumption: | 660,800 bbl/day (2005 est.) | 26 billion cu m (2005 est.) |
Exports: | 112,600 bbl/day (2005 est.) | |
Imports: | 724,400 bbl/day (2005 est.) | 25 billion cu m (2005 est.) |
Reserves: | 300 million bbl (1 January 2006 est.) | 8 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.) |
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Turkey - recent news
09 Apr 25 |
Turkey: Nordex Group symbolically signs Türkiye contracts with Enerjisa Üretim The Nordex Group and Enerjisa Üretim, a joint venture between German utility E.ON and Turkish conglomerate Sabanci Holding, signed, at the WindEurope Annual Event in Copenhagen, the previously announced contracts for the construction of two wind farms in Türkiye. |
02 Apr 25 |
Turkey: Nordex Group receives two orders totalling 750 MW in Türkiye The Nordex Group has received two orders totalling 750 MW from a wind energy project developer in Türkiye. The Nordex Group will supply and install 108 N163/6.X turbines for two wind projects from mid-2026. Completion of the wind farms is scheduled for 2027. |
19 Mar 25 |
Turkey: Trillion Energy announces SASB field operational update Trillion Energy International has announced an operational update for the SASB offshore gas project, Turkey. In January 2025, the Company successfully installed new velocity string tubing in two tripod-based wells, Alapli-2 and Bayhanli-2. This follows the installation of similar tubing in four wells on the Akcakoca platform during the fall of 2024. |
13 Feb 25 |
Turkey: Trillion Energy announces SASB field operational update Trillion Energy International has announced an operational update for the SASB offshore gas project, Turkey. |
14 Jan 25 |
Turkey: Nordex Group receives orders for 638 MW from Türkiye in the 4th quarter and overachieves 1 GW order intake in 2024 In the Q4 2024, the Nordex Group received orders for a total of 97 turbines from Türkiye. With these orders the Nordex Group reached more than 1 GW of new orders in Türkiye in 2024. |
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