National Coordinator of Turkey

Mr Talaat Aydin
Director General of Land Transport 
Ministry of Transport

With EuroMed since 2003, Turkey’s National Coordinator Talaat Aydin brings a wide-ranging expertise in engineering, public administration and land-transport experience to bear on his role. Fluent in English, Aydin holds an Msc and Master’s degree in Public Administration, and is an expert in road transport market regulation, public-sector privatization and railway transport. Previously, he has been director-general of land transport in the Turkish ministry and a member of the management board and acting director-general of Turkish railways. He was also instrumental in regulating his country’s road transport sector in line with EU standards, the privatization of Turkish telecoms and the implementation of large-scale projects such as Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway.

Interviews with Mr Izzet Isik (Deputy National Coordinator):

Mr Izzet Isik
Head of Dept
Gl Directorate of Land Transport

Involvement and experience of Turkey within the project ?
The EuroMed project is one of the key tools for this good cooperation between Europe and Mediterranean countries... Video [wmv] (3Mb)

Best lessons learned with the project ?
Turkey is an accession country for the European Commission and in these terms of course we have a lot of progress in terms of improving the transport regulations and transport infrastructures... Video [wmv] (3Mb)

Current projects related to transport policy reform or 
to transport infrastructure improvement ?
In the railway sector there are restructuring programs going on for restructuring the railways and in some other transport sectors, in maritime also... Video [wmv] (3Mb)