VOL. XXXVI

NO. 18

1-FEBRUARY-1993

Financial and Banking News

BUDGETS AND REVENUES

Gulf States to Provide Turkey with $2.5bn for Defense Industry

Turkey is to receive $1bn each from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, plus $500mn fromthe UAE, for a defence fund designed to refurbish Turkey's armed forces and toexpand its weapons industry. Turkey and the US will contribute a further $500mneach to the fund, according to Turkish Defense Ministry officials in Ankara.

News of the deal emerged during a tour of the...