China–Turkey Investment Tracker

Chinese investment in Turkey · press reports, 2005–2026

What became of the Chinese investment projects reported in Turkey

Osman Demirbağ, Burak Gürel, Kadir Selamet · Data release · · 

What became of each project · one square each

Years without a press report found before an open promise counts as dormant.

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    Outcomes in the current selection

    What became of the promises

    Investment projects only: realised, live promise, dormant promise, failed. Non-equity presence and contractor or finance items are set aside.

    Outcome by year of first report

    Time to outcome for projects first reported as interest or a promise

    Announced pledges by outcome

    Where the evidence comes from: press claims per year by type

    All claims behind the matching projects. The Dünya archive (2008–2022) and Aydınlık (2011–2023) supply the dated investment steps; later years rest on other news sources, company disclosures and Competition Authority decisions, so counts after 2022 are not like for like with earlier years.

    Matching projects

    General signals not tied to a project

    Articles reporting Chinese interest in Turkey without a firm or site that could be tied to a project: delegations, ministerial statements, umbrella agreements. They are kept for context and are not counted as projects.

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      Free to use with attribution. One row per project and one row per press claim, with the verbatim quote and the article link. Quotes are in Turkish as published; notes and variables are in English. The codebook is also a sheet in the workbook.

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