In the ‘secret’ letter sent to the World Bank in behalf of the government on April 14th this year, the social cost of privatization is revealed as the loss of 29,000 jobs by the year 2009. To reduce the social impact of the privatization, the government is asking the World Bank to help out by […]
In the ‘secret’ letter sent to the World Bank in behalf of the government on April 14th this year, the social cost of privatization is revealed as the loss of 29,000 jobs by the year 2009.
To reduce the social impact of the privatization, the government is asking the World Bank to help out by releasing the pending credit while it is promising to lay off 29,000 workers and selling of 21 public by 2009.
In the confidential letter the details of privatization are listed together with how many workers will be fired from which plant. According to this list, the government is planning to lay off 5,826 in 2005. At the top of the list of public corporations standing to lose the most jobs is Tekel, the corporation which produces alcohol and tobacco products with 1,502 jobs. Following Tekel with second in line is Telekom, the telephone and communications corporation with 1,175 jobs to be eliminated. Third comes TEDAŞ with 752 jobs followed by the Sugar enterprises with 700 jobs.
Sources have indicated that this detailed list of “The Privatization Policies of Turkey” was found convincing by the World Bank administration who decided to release the 83% of the credit requested by the Turkish Government.
Source: Vatan
