GAZANTEP An industry and trade center on the historical Silk Road

Area: 6222 km2 Population: 1.5 million 6th largest city in Turkey Syria Border: 74 km Iraq Border: 516 km Iskenderun Port: 137 km, Mersin Port 275 km

Largest industry and trade center in SEAP region, highly developed industrial and commercial capacity. most of the agricultural products produced in the region is processed in Gaziantep and is exported to other parts of Turkey and the world from Gaziantep. at the point where the Mediterranean Region and the Souteastern Anatolia Region meet, gateaway for EU to Middle East and Middle East to Europe 4 Organized Industrial Zones(second biggest in Turkey) around 700 companies operating actively, more than 100.000 people are currently employed in the Zones Trade with Neighbouring Countries Industrial area with developed service, infrastructure (energy, banking, customs clearance, logistics, communication, transport, accommodation) Overall, Gaziantep became an industry and trade center by the local entreprenuerships without having government investments

SECTORAL DISTRIBUTION OF COMPANIES IN GAOIZ-2007

15% 3% 9% 41% TEXTILE FOOD PLASTIC PAINT CLEANING-HYGIENE OTHERS

Textile:263
Food:144 Plastics:58 Paint:54 CleaningHygiene:17 Others: 95

9%

TOTAL:631

23%

GAZANTEP ORGANIZED INDUSTRY ZONE

Waste Water Treatment Center-capacity of 90.000m3/day, equals to 1.5 million peoples waste water treatment Natural Gas since 2005 are used in GAOIZ Container Terminal- both in GAOIZ and Free Zone in order to establish a rapid, direct connection to Mersin and skenderun ports. In 2007, 320.000 tons of goods are transferred. Since 2006 GAOIZ has taken over the role of distrubuting and selling electricity from TEDAS in 2006 4th Organized Industry Zone is specially designed in big areas for foreign investors.

Gaziantep's place in Turkish Economy

Number of Exporting Companies Export Destinations Gaziantep's share in Turkey's total production Gaziantep's share in Turkey's total export

932 158 5% %2.2

GAZANTEP FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS (US DOLLARS)

7.000.000.000 6.000.000.000 5.000.000.000 4.000.000.000 3.000.000.000 2.000.000.000 1.000.000.000 0 2004
2004 EXPORT 1.391.340.000

EXPORT IMPORT VOLUME

2005
2005 1.922.309.000

2006

2007
2006

2008
2007 2.841.612.540 2008 3.898.920.000

2.238.648.000

IMPORT
VOLUME

1.336.470.620
2.727.810.620

1.691.687.000
3.613.996.000

1.834.089.500
4.072.737.500

2.265.388.000
5.107.000.540

2.709.020.000
6.607.040.000

GAZANTEP EXPORT FIGURE (Dollars)

3.9 billion Dollars only from the region, when we add up the amount being exported with Gaziantep origin from the others customs gates of Turkey, estimated export figure for 2007 is 6 billion dollars %37- increase on our exports from 2007 to 2008

STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES FOR INVESTORS IN GAZANTEP

Gaziantep is close to Syria, Iraq and other Middle East countries and also to Northern Africa,Middle Asian countries and Caucasian states which are profitable markets It is the nearest industry and trade center to SEAP Region, Gaziantep has a free zone, An Animal Fattening Organized Industrial Zone is established in Gaziantep, Gaziantep Teknopark is established within the structure of Gaziantep University Qualified Labor Source and Low Labour costs

Gaziantep is a vital logistics center for the transfer of goods that come from Mersin and skenderun Ports to Iraq, There is a railway and a container terminal at Gaziantep Organized Industrial Zone, Natural gas is currently used in all industrial zones of Gaziantep, Gaziantep has highway connections to Adana, Mersin and skenderun, and it is expected that this highway connections will reach to Iraqi border soon, Gaziantep has an international airport, Consulate of Syria is in Gaziantep, Iraq Consulate is expected to be opened in fall 2009 Negotiations about opening up consulates of Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Algeria still continues.

GAZIANTEP FREE ZONE

Numerous opportunities for foreign investors apart from tax, investment and trade and employment advantages of Free Zones, Gaziantep Free Zone offers to its investors even renting opportunities without ownership. Profits, which are gained for the activities in the zone, can be transferred freely No customs fee and funds for imported machinery and goods, which are brought to Free Zone Since the sales from Turkey to Zone are considered as export, the Zone users can purchase goods from Turkey, without paying VAT Sales of goods, either produced in the zone or those brought into the free zone,are permitted for resale into domestic markets.

MIDDLEASTERN ECONOMY ZONE

A project to be implemented within the Turkey-Syria Interregional Cooperation Programme Akcakoyun Province GCC is the project owner and the feasibility report and studies and still continues in cooperation with DPT,TOBB and TEPAV. A zone where the analysis of the both Syrian and Turkish investment opportunities, trade information and related legislation are done, and these advantages will be used in this Zone for companies, production and trade for going into European Union and Arab Union Markets.