IRAQ 

Yugoslav-Turkish Consortium to Build $1.5bn Bekhme Dam and Power Plant 

A consortium made up of the Turkish Enkaa Insaat ve Sanayi and Yugoslavia's Hydrogradnja signed a contract in Baghdad on 29 September for ID460mn ($1.5bn) to construct the Bekhme dam and a hydroelectric power plant with a total capacity of 1,500 megawatts at the Great Zab river in northern Iraq, some 20 kms. south of the Turkish border. Bechtel Corporation of the US will act as management consultant...