VOL. XLII

No 49

6-December-1999

TURKEY

US Companies Sign Deals For Turkish Power Plants

US and Turkish companies signed agreements worth $850mncovering the construction of two gas-fired power plants and two hydroelectricpower plants on 19 November during the Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe (OSCE) summit in Istanbul. The build-operate-transfer(BOT) projects are as follows:

A 200-MW gas-fired power station costing $163.5mn atEskisehir in western Turkey. The project consortium...