{"id":252125,"date":"2021-11-07T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/geography-is-destiny\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:11:34","slug":"geography-is-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/geography-is-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography is Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The phrase \u201cGeography is Destiny\u201d attributed to Ibn-i Khaldun is to explain the reason for the development level of countries and people living in these countries (unfortunately, their inability to advance and even fall behind), and to explain the sociological characteristics of people (culture, education, industriousness, productivity, respect\u2026 ) and is used to express the relationship between the geography they live in. In short, this word unfortunately creates a \u201cnegative\u201d perception.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Turkey\u2019s real destiny is to become a \u201cSupply Chain Country\u201d due to its place in the world geography instead of the usual \u201cnegative\u201d perception.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Turkey, which has the ability and potential to produce quality goods, has the potential to contribute to the international and global Supply Chain with its logistics structure supporting its fateful geography (physical infrastructure such as ports, roads, bridges, warehouses, sufficient number of qualified human resources, legal regulations for correct and accelerated goods flow). It may be the strongest link.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As a Supply Chain country, Turkey aims to make the international and global supply chain more agile, flexible and fast; work in a less complex structure; be more lean; be more environmentally friendly; more accurate management of risks against possible dangers; more secure (flow of goods and information) and reliable, and less costly with better inventory management. Thus, Supply Chain Country Turkey can add more value to the international and global supply chain.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Due to the \u201cgoods flow\u201d problems experienced during the pandemic, Covid-19, which obliges Turkey to be a \u201cshort, easy-to-control, plain (simple) and easy-to-trace\u201d Supply Chain instead of a \u201clong, difficult to control, complex and difficult to traceability\u201d Supply Chain, Thus, Turkey, as a much more important supply country compared to pre-Covid-19, can bring opportunities for companies and investors both in Turkey and around the world.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Despite the data in the surveys conducted by PwC & AmChamChina and Gartner during the pandemic period, \u201cmany companies do not think of leaving China in the near future\u201d and \u201ccompanies considering leaving China should consider countries such as Vietnam, India and Malaysia\u201d, all interested parties in Turkey ( Government, public, private sector, university, NGO) should explain and promote to the world that Turkey is a \u201cSupply Chain Country\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But it should be promoted as an all-in-one \u201csupply chain\u201d, not just \u201cproduction\u201d or \u201cgeographical location\u201d or \u201clogistics\u201d. Because all of them together form the strongest link of the international and global supply chain. And of course, all of these exist in Turkey. The first step for this promotion is the emphasis on \u201csupply chain\u201d and \u201clogistics\u201d, especially on the home page and other pages of the \u201cInvest in Turkey\u201d website.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I repeat the last sentence of my article \u201cTurkey is a Supply Chain Country\u201d dated 27 November 2011 and I say \u201cTurkey is a Supply Chain Country\u201d and there is flour, oil, sugar\u2026 it remains to make Turkey a \u201cSupply Chain Country\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The phrase \u201cGeography is Destiny\u201d attributed to Ibn-i Khaldun is to explain the reason for the development level of countries and people living in these countries (unfortunately, their inability to advance and even fall behind), and to explain the sociological characteristics of people (culture, education, industriousness, productivity, respect\u2026 ) and is used to express the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,226,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-authors","category-oruc-kaya-en"],"blocksy_meta":[],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights.tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}