Eastern Anatolia Development Agency

as a candidate country of the european union, turkey (tr) is included in the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (nuts). the three nuts levels are: * nuts-1: 12 regions (different from the 7 geographic regions) * nuts-2: 26 sub-regions * nuts-3: 81 provinces currently, turkey is establishing regional development agencies in 26 nuts-2 regions. the objective underlying the foundation of development agencies is: * to develop cooperation between the public sector, private sector and non-governmental organisations, * to ensure proper and effective use of resources and mobilise local potential, thereby accelerate regional development in harmony with the principles and policies envisaged in the national development plan and programmes, * to ensure its sustainability; and to reduce inter and intra-regional development disparities.