Domestic Technology Strategies in Water and Wastewater Administrations: ISKI Practices

In order to produce imported industrial products within the country and to overcome the middle income trap, the sectors that will double the value added of the industry in 10 years are determined by the government. In this context, price advantage is provided to domestic products with the law numbered 4734 and related regulations. A list of medium and high industrial products is published by the relevant ministry. Turkey has followed the European Union harmonization process. Within this framework, environmental and public procurement chapters were opened. Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be some conflicts between EU and Turkey on these chapters. In this study, two product domestic production workshops, which are under the leadership of Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (ISKI), are discussed in the water and wastewater sectors. In these workshops, studies were carried out to produce chemical, plastic, electricalelectronic, machine elements and technologies used in water and wastewater sectors with national facilities