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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The COMCEC Transport and Communications Outlook is a contribution of the COMCEC
Coordination Office to enrich the discussions during the Transport and Communications
Working Group Meetings.
COMCEC Strategy, adopted during the 4th Extraordinary Islamic Summit held in Makkah on 14-
15 August 2012, envisages Working Group Meetings as one of the instruments for its
implementation. Through theWorking Groups, country experts get the chance of elaborating the
issues thoroughly in the respective cooperation areas and sharing their good practices and
experience. The Working Groups are established for each cooperation area defined by the
Strategy, namely (i) Trade, (ii) Transport and Communications, (iii) Tourism, (iv) Agriculture,
(v) Poverty Alleviation, and (vi) Finance.
The COMCEC Outlooks are prepared in each cooperation area of the Strategy with a view to
explore the global trends and current situation in the OIC Member States in the respective area
and enrich discussions during the Working Groups Meetings by providing up-to-date data.
The COMCEC Transport and Communications Outlook 2016 is a revised and updated version of
the Transport Outlook 2015 published by the COMCEC Coordination Office. The Outlook has
been prepared by Mr. Ekrem KARADEMİR, Mr. Burak KARAGÖL, and Mr. Nihat AKBALIK,
specialists at the COMCEC Coordination Office, with the objective of providing general
information on the status of transport and communications sector in the Organization of the
Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States. It dwells on the major issues with regard to
developments in transport and communications sectors and makes comparisons with the
different country groupings to demonstrate the situation in the Member States and thus
cooperation potentials. The authors would like to extend their thanks to Dr. İsmail Çağrı ÖZCAN
for his valuable contributions to the previous editions.
The views expressed and conclusions reached in this publication do not necessarily reflect the
official views of the COMCEC Coordination Office, COMCEC or the governments of OIC Member
Countries.