Water, Politics and Dams in the Mesopotamia Basin of the Northern Middle East: How Turkey Instrumentalises the South-Eastern Anatolia Project for Political, Military and Strategic Interests

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (9) ◽

pp. 1275

Author(s):

Mustafa Şit

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Regional Growth ◽

Structural Break ◽

Eastern Region ◽

Eastern Anatolia ◽

The South ◽

Causality Test ◽

Policy Proposal ◽

South Eastern

South-eastern Anatolia has the largest agricultural areas and the countryside living in this region are engaged in agriculture. Loans extended to agriculture by banks are considered to contribute to regional development as a support to the sector. In this paper, the relationship between the GDP of the South-eastern region and the loans extended by the banks to the agricultural sector in this region were investigated in the period of 1988-2017. Lee-Strazicich structural break test and Dolado-Lütkepohl and Bootstrapt causality test was applied to determine the causal relationship between the variables in the analysis. Unlike the others this paper contributes to the literature as it examines the effect of agricultural loans on the development of the region and different tests are used. As a result of the study, the breaking years of the series were determined and interpreted economically. In addition, bi-directional causality relationship between regional growth and agricultural loans was determined. It can be said that agricultural loans contributed to regional development in the South-eastern Anatolia region. It can be presented as a policy proposal that increasing the loans extended to the sector in the region. The effectiveness of agricultural loans can be increased by controlling the use of loans by supervision of on-site use of.

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Current status and distribution of diurnal raptor species in the south-eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey

Slovak Raptor Journal ◽

10.1515/srj-2015-0008 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 105-113

Author(s):

Recep Karakaș

Keyword(s):

Research Program ◽

Agricultural Intensification ◽

Bird Species ◽

Current Status ◽

Eastern Anatolia ◽

The South ◽

South Eastern ◽

Wintering Birds ◽

The Status ◽

Migratory Status

Abstract The status and distribution of diurnal raptor bird species were analysed in the south-eastern part of Turkey based on studies and records between 1994 and 2014. Our information about raptor species is very limited in the south-eastern Anatolia Region. The study showed that of 42 diurnal raptor species listed in Turkey, 37 of these species were found in the studied region; 9 of them are certainly, 4 probably and 1 possibly breeding in the area - according to the breeding criteria of the EBCC - while 17 of them were transitory migrating or wintering birds for the region, and the breeding/migratory status of 6 is unknown. Habitats lost and fragmentation related to agricultural intensification together with pesticide applications are the main hazards threatening wildlife including raptors in the region. So as to increase knowledge on raptors in south-eastern Anatolia and evaluate their populations, a coordinated education and research program is essential.

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