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Regional Development Agencies were established in Turkey by Law No.
5,449, enacted on 25 January 2006. Their tasks are:
- To improve the cooperation between public sector, private sector and
non-governmental organizations;
- To provide the efficient usage of resources in appropriate location;
- To accelerate the regional development in harmony with national
development plans and programs by activating the local potential;
- To ensure sustainability;
- To minimize inter- and intra-regional development differences.
The first Development Agencies established in Turkey were Çukurova
Development Agency and İzmir Development Agency (Cabinet Decision No.
2006/10,550), which went into action on 6 January 2007 and 13 January
2007, respectively.
An appeal at the Constitutional Court against the Law, eventually turned
down, delayed the establishment of the other Development Agencies.
[Y. Toktaş, H. Sevinç, E. Bozkurt. 2013. The evolution of Regional Development Agencies: Turkey case. Annales Universitatis Apulensis
Series Oeconomica 15, 670-681]
Regional development agencies are institutions established as a
structure independent from the central government of Turkey. The main
purpose of establishing regional development agencies in Turkey is to
implement regional strategies, to support regional and nation-wide
enterprises, to examine local and regional solution for the near future
of private sectors, to search new financial guaranties and solutions to
the demand for new products and services. The most innovative way of the
RDAs is that there are not only central government’s representatives,
but also local actors in the decision-making mechanism. The central
governments’ representatives in the regional area started to share
public authority with the local actors. The central development model in
Turkey was implying that all development process should be managed by
the central government, mainly the Ministry of Development. This model
excluded local actors and stakeholders such as municipalities, province
special administration, local chambers of commerce and industry and
non-governmental organizations contrary to the new model providing a
more collaborative, democratic and effective system.
[M. Yesilbas. Regional Development Agencies: An innovative development management model in Turkey / PA Times]
Ivan Sache, 1 September 2019
Flag of AHİKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 April 2019
AHİKA covers the Provinces of Aksaray, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Niğde and Nevşehir. The agency's name refers to Ahi Evran's Ahilik organization.
Ahi ("my brother") Evran was born in Hoy (Nakhichevan) in 1171, as Sheikh Nasreddin Mahmut al-Hoyi; he is said to have lived for 90 years
but there is no definite information on his death. The tradition,
however, claims that Ahi Evran was killed in Kırşehir during the Mongol
invasion of Anatolia. His mausoleum was erected in 1450 by a member of Ahilik.
When a noted Sufi-oriented scholar in Baghdad, Ahi Evran was invited to
Anatolia by the new Seljuk sultan. He became famous in Kırşehir where he
designed a medicine from the venom of snakes that infected the town at
the time.
Ahi Evran established in Kayseri Ahilik, an
organization considered as a medieval professional chamber for craftsmen
and merchants. Such an organization, based on solidarity and moral
values, was needed because of the lack of central state authorities that
would regulate professional activities. Back to Kırşehir, Ahi Evran
established in the town as a tanner; he became a familiar of Haji
Bektash Veli (1209-1271), the founder of the Bektaşi organization.
The Ahilik system was encouraged by the first Ottoman rulers, under the
influence of Sheikh Edebalı (1206-1326), the mentor and father-in-law of
Sultan Osman Gazi (1299-1323/24). The Republic of Turkey also recognized
the Ahilik legacy.
TESVAK (Türkiye Esnaf ve Sanatkarları Ahilik Vakfı - Turkish Tradesmen
and Artisans Ahilik Foundation) is the modern form of Ahilik.
[Kültür Gündemi, 24 September 2013]
The flag of AHİKA (photo) is blue with the agency's emblem, in white. The agency's motto reads "Plans for Future".
The blue shade is specified as Pantone 5405 C. The font is prescribed as
Philosopher 20 pt.
[Institutional identity guide]
Ivan Sache, 21 April 2019
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Flag of ANKARAKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 April 2019
ANKARAKA (website) has for
mission "to be a center providing supports for production and
implementation of projects and original development strategies by
adapting innovative and sustainable development models evolved in the
world to Ankara." Its vision is "to transform Ankara into the technology and science center of Turkey and Eurasia in 21st century."
The flag of ANKARAKA (photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 21 April 2019
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Flag of BEBKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2019
The flag of Bursa Eskişehir Bilecik Development Agency (photo, photo, photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2019
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Flag of ORAN - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 September 2019
ORAN covers the Provinces of Kayseri, Yozgat and Sivas.
The flag of ORAN (photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 1 September 2019
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Flag of ÇKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2019
ÇKA covers the Provinces of Adana and Mersin.
The flag of ÇKA (photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2019
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Flag of DAKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 27 April 2019
DAKA covers the Provinces of Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş and Van. The flag of DAKA (photo, photo, photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2019
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Flag of DOKA, two versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 20 April 2019
DOKA covers the Provinces of Artvin, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize, and Trabzon. The flag of DOKA is white with the agency's emblem, including either the agency's full name (photo) or its acronym (photo).
Ivan Sache, 20 April 2019
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Flag of MARKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 24 April 2019
MARKA covers the Provinces of Bolu, Düzce, Kocaeli, Sakarya and Yalova.
The flag of MARKA (photo,
photo,
photo,
photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2019
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Flag of DOĞAKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 27 April 2019
DOĞAKA covers the Provinces of Hatay, Kahramanmaraş and Osmaniye.
The flag of DOĞAKA (photo,
photo,
photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2019
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Flag of FKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 23 April 2019
FKA covers the Provinces of Bingöl, Elaziğ, Malatya, and Tunceli.
The flag of FKA is white with the agency's emblem.
(photo,photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo,
photo).
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2019
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Flag of İSTKA - Image by Ivan Sache, 23 April 2019
İSTKA (website) was established on 10 November 2008 with a view to "expediting the regional development in harmony with the principles and policies set out in the national development plan and programs, providing sustainability and closing the inter-regional and intra-regional gaps by improving collaborations among the public & private industry and non-governmental organizations, fostering opportune and efficient use of resources and galvanizing the local potential".
The flag of İSTKA (photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2019
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Flag of KARACADAĞ - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2019
KARACADAĞ (website) was established in order to operate in TRC2 Region ((Diyarbakir - Şanlıurfa). The agency was officially opened on 5 December 2009. Diyarbakir and Şanlıurfa Investment Support Offices began operations in 2010.
The agency is named for Mt. Karaca (Karaca Dağ), a volcano (1957 m)
located on the border of the Provinces of Diyarbakir and Şanlıurfa.
Karaca Dağ is a broad basaltic shield volcano in South-East Turkey about
100 km north of the Syrian border. The volcano lies on the Arabian
foreland about 150 km south-west of the boundary with the Anatolian
Plate and has been active since the Pliocene along a
North-South-trending set of fissures and craters associated with the
nearby Akçakale graben. Potassium-Argon dates of mid-Pleistocene age
have been obtained from lava flows, but Landsat imagery suggests that
some lava flows, particularly those on the east flank, may perhaps be
only a few thousand years old.
[
Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution]
The flag of KARACADAĞ (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is white with the agency's emblem.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2019
