Abstract Regional policy has been on the agenda of Turkey since the First Five-Year Development Plan (1963–1967), and so far, Turkey has put into practice to overcome regional disparities, one of the most important is regional-sectoral incentives. Thus, the incentive system, which has undergone many changes until today, has been revised and updated in 2012. Although this incentive system has been put into practice for increasing the investment in eastern provinces/regions, development gap between eastern and western regions still stands. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the success of the new incentive system and to determine whether the new investment incentive system is effective in shifting investments from developed regions to backward regions in Turkey. In the study, the regional distribution of investment incentives during 2001–2016 and the effect of new investment incentive system to change the distribution of investments in favor of less developed provinces/regions will be examined. By using investment incentives data, regional distribution of investments will be revealed with the help of map-graph technique. The study found that both the share of incentive certificates and the share of the investment amount have increased during the period of 2001–2016 in the less developed provinces. From this point of view, it is possible to say that the new investment incentive system has a positive impact on increasing the share of incentives in these provinces.

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投资激励措施的空间分布以及新的激励机制对土耳其欠发达地区的影响

摘要自第一个五年发展计划（1963年至1967年）以来，土耳其一直将区域政策列入议程，迄今为止，土耳其已付诸实践以克服区域差异，其中最重要的一项是区域部门激励措施。因此，直到今天，已经发生了很多变化的激励机制在2012年进行了修订和更新。尽管已经实施了这种激励机制以增加对东部省份/地区的投资，但是东西部之间的发展差距仍然存在。这项研究的主要目的是调查新的激励机制的成功，并确定新的投资激励机制是否有效地将投资从土耳其的发达地区转移到落后地区。在研究中 将研究2001-2016年期间投资激励措施的区域分布以及新的投资激励制度对有利于欠发达省份/地区的投资分布变化的影响。通过使用投资激励数据，将借助地图技术揭示投资的区域分布。研究发现，在欠发达的省份，激励证书的份额和投资额的份额在2001-2016年期间都有所增加。从这个角度来看，可以说新的投资激励制度对增加这些省份的激励份额有积极的影响。