The Southeast Anatolia Region
Written by Mystic on 11:30The Southeast Anatolia region covers 9.7% of the territory of Turkey. It has a surface area of 75,000 km2. It is adjacent to the East Anatolia and the Mediterranean regions and also borders Syria and Iraq. According to the 2000 census, the population of the region was 6,608,619. 4,143,136 people live in cities and 2,465,483 in villages. It has an annual population growth rate of 24.79‰. Following the Marmara region, this region has the second highest population growth rate in Turkey.
Within the scope of the GAP Project, which changed the fate of the region, irrigated agriculture has been adopted on some plains and the sowing of industrial plants has been accelerated. In fact, there is a boom in cotton production, especially on Harran Plain, which extends from the south of Şanlıurfa, to the Syrian border. The best cotton in the region is grown here.
Petroleum is the most important underground resource in the region. A portion of the crude oil produced in the environs of Raman, Garzan and Kahta, is refined at the Batman Refinery, which is one of the largest industrial establishments in the region. Some of the crude oil is transported by pipeline to filling facilities in the Mediterranean region and then taken to the other regions by tanker.
Gaziantep is the most important industrial city in the Southeast Anatolia region. The textile, machinery and food industries are quite developed here. The cement, food, metal products, agricultural equipment and similar industries are found in Diyarbakır, Mardin and Şanlıurfa where these industries are still developing.
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