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While ERDEMIR was undergoing its travails, several other ambitious projects designed to provide a massive expansion in Turkey’s iron and steel capacity were implemented. The third iron and steel plant (ISDEMIR) came on stream, work began on a fourth plant, SIDEMIR, and a massive modernization program was launched at Karabük. None of these would serve as a textbook example of how to design and implement a technological project or how to achieve technological mastery.
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I. Çelebi, Türkiye’de Demir Çelik Sanyiĭnĭn Yapĭsĭ ve Sorunlarĭ (Ankara: Devlet Planlama Teşkilatĭ, 1979), p.73. Actually the cost may have been even higher because the John Miles Company, in their original feasibility study carried out in 1967, estimated the cost of the first phase at TL 2.5 billion and of the entire plant at TL 3.5 billion.
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For sophisticated analyses of regional voting patterns see E. Özbudun, Social Change and Political Participation in Turkey (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976)
and Ilhan Tekeli and Raşit Gökçeli, 1973 ve 1975 Seçimleri (Istanbul: Milliyet Yayĭnlarĭ, 1977).
John Miles Company Ltd, Feasibility Study for TDÇI on the Establishment of Iron Steel Plant at Sivas for the Production of 2 Million Tons, February 1977.
Unless otherwise noted, the following sections draw upon William Kirwan, Final report: Consulting Services for Turkish Iron and Steel Company, Karabük Works (Unido Contract T/81/105/MK, January 1983), mimeo.
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S. Tan, Demir-Çelik Sanayiĭnde Verimlilik (Ankara: Milli Prodüktivite Merkezi, 1983), Table 119, p. 108.
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Szyliowicz, J.S. (1991). ISDEMIR, SIDEMIR, Karabük: Projects and Comparative Perspectives. In: Politics, Technology and Development. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09099-0_6
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