Balkans Development

[alvaro12]

Glad to see the Balkans included ,please don't forget Bulgaria!Great work and thanks!

[Rigelmeister]

When hot-headed Turks are involved, it's really difficult to keep a thread under control.

Balkans are a huge area which will maybe take a whole year for the team to complete before even coming to Edirne (Turkish border city to Greece & Bulgaria) so I would forget about it for now to lessen the pain. However, if everything goes as they do now (I mean, modders keep working and the team remains intact), I am almost sure the team would be eager to go beyond İstanbul to include other Turkish cities because the area is quite rich in terms of transportation and geography. It must be a too far-fetched plan yet even Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan etc. may be included, imo. The thing is, it's just TOO FAR AWAY and I guess there's literally nothing the team can say about it. I can understand if Turkey is not prioritized, but coming all the way to Turkey and excluding Bosphorus... That would be mean!

[Matt723]

If they do get through Turkey, they should definitely expand further and put in (among many other things) Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan

[MandelSoft]

Guys, guys, guys, please don't get overboard with these ideas. We are nowhwere near the Turkish border yet, we still have a huge chunk of the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece and the Balkans to do, so considering the Asian side of Turkey and beyond that is out of our current scope. It will take a year at least before we even get to the point where we would even approach Turkey's borders

[penguinaz]

If they do get through Turkey, they should definitely expand further and put in (among many other things) Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan

This is the Balkans edition,
not the Caucasus edition! (and there won't be one for a long time)

Please keep your ideas within the scope of this project

[EG0611]

so considering the Asian side of Turkey and beyond that is out of our current scope. It will take a year at least before we even get to the point where we would even approach Turkey's borders

Don't worry we wait

But on the other hand I don't know your Turkey plan but: Turkey has 143.844.066.212 $ exports to European Union. 13.417.478.400 $ to Germany, 10.556.862.755 $ to UK, 5.845.274.658 $ to France and so on... And most of these exports to EU have been made by trucks (%88.7 the rest are air, sea or railroad) also at least half of them are from Asia side of Turkey.

In the following picture you can see the # of travels of trucks to specific countries from 2004 to 2007. In 2007 80000 trucks have been transported cargos to Germany from Turkey

Turkey highways (be careful I am talking about highways not motorways) are built as: 3x3+ breakdown lane, toll-access and always secured with fences and barriers. Here is a picture of the latest highway of Turkey, as known as İstanbul Bursa highway

And here is the future of Turkey highways

So long to short: Please do not see Turkey's Asia side as adopted child. I don't know how Turkey has been seen from other countries but please don't imagine Turkey as one of the Middle East country or Couped country.

Thanks.

Sources:
- Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu/Turkish Statistical Institue
- RAPOR: TÜRKİYE’NİN LOJİSTİK GÖRÜNÜMÜ (http://www.ekonomi.gov.tr/portal/conten ... :EK-167336)
- UTIKAD ULUSLARARASI TAIMACILIK VE LOJİSTİK HİZMET ÜRETENLERİ DERNEĞİ (http://www.utikad.org.tr/haberler/2007sektorraporu.pdf)
- Pictures from Google

[Barrett_killz]

Either way, it takes time for roads to be built, and the quality is worth the wait. Turkey will come up eventually.

Turkey is ready when Turkey is ready.
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[Kortez]

Sorry elitegamer, but do you see that someone would like visibility to their country? nobody 's doing here, only you with yours Turkey. I'm tired still read about it. Just wait as everyone. Facts about exports everyone know.

[Volleybal4life]

Elitegamer, please quit about Turkey. We are no where near the country. It will one day be time to talk about Turkey.
If you really want to talk about it, open a topic in the off topic section.

Thanks in advance.

[Sothernregion]

is normally open a separate page and there 's talk and map Turkish, Balkan map here makes no sense to mix things