TTK

TTK, the acronym for Turkiye Taskomuru Kurumu Genel Mudurlu, is a Turkish government owned hard coal mining company. The U.S. Geological Survey reported in 2010 that TTK owned and operated five mines with an annual production capacity over over 2 million tonnes a year of run-of-mine coal.

Euracoal, the European coal industry lobby group, states that "the state-owned TTK has a de facto monopoly on the production, processing and distribution of hard coal, although there are no legal restrictions on private sector involvement ... Long-standing restructuring and privatisation efforts to increase coal production in the basin have not succeeded so far; coal production today is not very different from that of ten years ago."

Coal mines
The USGS identifies the TTK mines and their 2010 production capacity as being;


 * Armutcuk mine at Armutcuk in Eregli province with an annual capacity of 400,000 tonnes. The mine is operated by Armutcuk Taskomuru Isletme Muessesesi which is a subsidiary of the government controlled Turkiye Taskomuru Kurumu Genel Mudurlu (TTK);


 * Amasra mine at Amasra in Bartin province with an annual capacity of 300,000 tonnes. The mine is also operated by Armutcuk Taskomuru Isletme Muessesesi, a TTK subsidiary;


 * the Karadon mine at Kilimli in Zonguldak province with an annual capacity of 450,000 tonnes. The mine is operated by Karadon Taskomuru Isletme Muessesesi, a subsidiary of TTK;


 * Kozlu mine at Kozlu in Zonguldak province with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes. The mine is operated by Kozllu Taskomuru Isletme Muessesesi, a subsidiary of TTK;


 * Uzulmez mine at Asma in Zonguldak province with an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes. The mine is operated by Uzulmez Taskomuru Isletme Muessesesi, a subsidiary of TTK.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Global use and production of coal
 * International Information on Coal
 * Turkey and coal

External resources

 * Euracoal, "Turkey", Euracoal website, accessed February 2013.