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Education system needs improvement
principles of merit must be prioritized
‘Roadmap’ for developing
a Turkish national car
W
e now have a structural problem. Poor edu-
cation system is deteriorating our workfor-
ce quality, which in turn generates unproductive
enterprises. The public administration is unable to
enforce regulations just to help those unproductive
enterprises survive. Those unproductive enterprises
cause unfair competition, preventing efficient and
productive enterprises from growing. In conclusion,
Turkey is going nowhere, just spinning its wheels.
For that reason, we must first improve our edu-
cation system and then prioritize the principles of
merit when appointing individuals to public offices,
but particularly to high-ranking offices. This is ine-
vitable for us to eradicate all the followers of the
Fethullah Gülen Terrorist Organization who dared
to stage a coup attempt after having infiltrated the
Turkish state and abused public authority power
recklessly.
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T
urkey will develop its own branded
automobile through the “Turkish
Electric Car Development Project” whi-
ch is conducted by TUBITAK under the
coordination of the Turkish Ministry of
Science, Industry and Technology. The
first four prototypes for the domestic
electric car, running on locally-produced
batteries, have already been manufactu-
red. TUBITAK has been testing and wor-
king to improve the prototypes. Turkey
aims to launch mass production of the
locally-made car by 2019 in cooperati-
on with a private corporation. A special
team of experts has been working on a
number of related issues, such as logis-
tics, manufacturing, branding, quality,
marketing and after-sales services. Faruk
Özlü, Minister of Science, Industry and
Technology, said, “We aim to complete
the development and manufacturing
of a fleet to be tested under all climate
and road conditions by the end of 2016
and to initiate mass production of the
locally-made car in 2019.”
TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu: