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On Friday, March 5, 1965, during a luncheon for participants in Istanbul
Mr. James P. Grant, U.S. A,I. D. Director for Turkey, handed out certificates to
66 returned participants. Beginning in 1949 when American economic aid first came to Turkey through the Truman Doctrine, followed by the {Aarshall Plan,
December 31, 1964, 3.044 participants had been sent for training to the United
States and third countries from Turkey. These men and women are today two-way envoys; Turkey's emissaries in the United States, and America's emissaries in
Turkey. The 3,000th Turkish citizen in the AID sponsored training program was
Senator Lutfi Ergun. When Mr. Grant presented Senator Ergun with his certificate
there was no need to utter many words. Their handshake spoke for fifteen years of mutual understanding.
AID DIRECTOR CITES CHALLENGES OF (( PROGRESS PARTNERSHIP
James P. Grant, new U.S. A. I. D. Director for Turkey, called attention to the continuing massive Western effort
to assist Turkey in economic development through the
Consortium, calling it a "partnership for progress" with the Turkish Republic. n a major speech delivered before about 100 guests of the
Istanbul Economic Research Foundation, Grant cited the accomplishments and some of the problems facing the combination of 14 Western nations and such groups as the \\orld Bank and the
European Investment Bank, working as an entity to assist
in the implementation of the Five-Year Plan. (In the first two years of the Plan," Grant told his large audience "the Consortium was successful in increasing the foreign aid^ flow to Turkey by approximately 50 percent, by roughly $ 100 million annualy.
"As a direct consequence, Turkey's partners in development
in 1963 and again in 1964 obligated themselves to provide more tli an $300 million to assist Turkey in her major development program and to supplement the $400 to $450 million of foreign exchange
earned by Turkey's own efforts.'
The'new Director of the U.S. A.I.D. Mission in Turkey arrived
in Ankara in October, succeeding Stuart 11. Van Dyke, and this speech was his first in Istanbul. Grant is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asia, and at one time wa» in charge of all of AID'S programs and planning operations^
ftashington. IIi.s appointment here underscored itie importance
United States attaches to Turkey
Geal is Clear
|-he ?oal of this intense effort for 'l-urkey is clear, (;, statf'.'!." Turkey's partners seek to lielp Turkey accomplish objectics of befomins; an economicauy, socially, and politic variableemocracv witli a self-sustaining econoiuic gromh rate factories for consumer goods are sprouting up all over Turkeyalmost like new grass in springtime!"
On a more cautious level, the American AID expert emp the hard work which has to be done to achieve Turkey s graw tion" from additional foreign aid by the end of the Second Five year plan. "In the course of preparation of the Second p'ive-Year Plan
iıı tlıe months ahead," he stated "it should be possible to determine whetlier llıis is a realistic target in the light of experience to
date."
Turkish Debt Levels
Grant cited the impressive effort now going onat the Consortium
to re-structure Turkey's external debt repayment requirements for at
least the next three years, as something which can help substantially to increase foreign exchange resources if successful. "Like most great efforts," he said, "it is not easy, but a reasonable amount of success is already in sight. 'The success of this effort to raise more funds and to ease the
debt problem is, of course, dependent in considerable part on ho\v others judge the prospects for Turkey's own performance in the
future inincreasing herforeign exchange earnings." Grant explained
that Turkey's partners have much good will for Turkey and have
been impressed with the domestic growth and the price stability of recent years, even though they still have some suggestions as to
how the growth might be increased even more. But their great concem is stilljgjth Turkey's need to increase foreign exchange earnings.
Development is Every Turk's Responsibility
Turning to the question of import substitution and creation of new expert industries, Grant called for a nationwide effort of selfhelp, (The businessmen and industrialists of Turkey, by their
initiative and skill, can make a great contribution toward closing
Turkey's balance-of-payments gap and Turkey>s future economic
independence." Grant described the effort for development as the responsibility of every Turk and all of Turkey's friends, saying
that: "It is the sum of thousands and millions of small actions that will graduate Turkey from the assistance-receiving part of the
partnership and gradually turn Turkey into an assistance-giving
partner."
Foreign Aid From Turkey
The U.S. A.I.D. Director cited the fact that countries of ^. em Europe now assisting Turkey were themselves assisted by the
American Marshall Plan in their time of need, and that now they are supplying larger and larger amounts of aid to Turkey as their own capabilities have increased. Atatürk's vision Grant said, 'can be expected to lead
Turkey toward an important role in the development assistance tc others in the not-too-distant 1970's, when Turkey no longer needs assistance herself."
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