ANKARA - Privatization Adminisration Chairman Metin Kilci said on Tuesday that the repercussion of the privatization programme in the market would determine the success of the privatization programme.
Kilci who met with IMF Turkey Desk Chief Reza Moghadam and an accompanying delegation for more than half an hour, talked to the press about the meeting.
Kilci said that they informed the IMF delegation about the privatization programme and that they explained the things done to date and to be done in the year 2004. Kilci stated that privatization programmes were carried out in a very successful way and that they explained it to the IMF delegation.
Noting that the privatization target worth of 4 billion dollars was a serious target and that they launched efforts to realize that target, Kilci stated that if possible, the amount of privatization could be more than 4 billion dollars.
Kilci pointed out that electricity, TELEKOM, National Lottery and sugar factories would be privatized in the year 2004, adding that if the bill on privatization was adopted in the parliament, privatization of National Lottery could take place in the year 2003.
Kilci recalled that Capital Market Board undertook the preliminary preparations for privatization of Istanbul Stock Exchange Market (IMKB), adding that the privatization date of IMKB would become clear according to the results of those studies.
''Has the privatization strategy of sugar factories been approved?'' asked journalists to Kilci, who said that ''yes we know that they have been signed.''
When asked if the IMF had concerns about the privatization programme, Kilci said ''they don't have any concerns about the future.''
(Öª) 15.07.2003