Revealed comparative advantage of Turkey in eECO market

Economic Cooperaiton Organization (ECO) comes from Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD). İn 1985 RCD members reorganized the organizational stracture of RCD and renamed the organization to ECO. New countries in Caucasus and Middle East after the dissolution of USSR which have historic, religious, cultural, geographical and political neighbourhood with Turkey, Iran and Pakistan also became the ECO members. There are 400 million population over the 8 million kilometer square area in ECO after the entering new members (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) in 1992.This study analyses and compares the competitiveness and the pattern of trade flows/trade specialisation of Turkey in the ECO market. Our research is mainly based on different measures of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) indices (in addition to simple Balassa Index) and vollrath index. The consistency and stability of different measures of RCA is also tested.Keywords: competitiveness , competitiveness power, revealed comparative advantage,.