CHP's 'Center Turkey' project

When you ask which feature is Turkey?s most important in terms of comparative advantages, all foreign investors reply ?geographic position.? Turkey?s second advantage is its young population. 

These two features have been engraved in our minds ever since elementary school but somehow we can never make use of them as a country. 

The main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) has combined these two comparative advantages and publicized its proposed project called ?Center Turkey.? It is a project to develop a mega city, a logistics hub that would self-administrate and self-develop. 

When I saw the concepts ?ecology? and ?reverse migration? during the presentation, I contacted CHP economy officials. 

According to what they said, ?Clean energy will be used in this mega city. This place will produce its own solar and wind energy.? 

Not a very far-fetched idea. Since there will not be heavy industry there, it is possible that only renewable energy will be used. 

They have specifically excluded heavy industry. ?It will not dominate the industrial infrastructure of surrounding cities. On the contrary, it will take their industry infrastructure and open them up to the world markets,? they said.

In other words, it is not a project where cities exclude each other; on the contrary, its one where they integrate.  

They said, ?It will be a recycling hub, sensitive to the environment. It will definitely respect ecologic balance.?

If you ask how they will be able to do this, they say they will have a planned solution against urban sprawl and that they will not tolerate any violation of green zones. They said, ?It will be the city with the highest ratio of green per capita in the region.?