The effects of 2008 global crisis on Turkish automotive sector

By 2008, that affecting almost every part and state of the world, so the world economic system, later we call global economic crisis, firstly emerged as a mortgage crisis in USA in 2007. In 2007, in USA with the decrease of four sectors; finance, insurance, real estate, construction and mining sectors growing ratios then followed by the period of liquidity crisis. With the flooding of world?s super power USA?s economy into a crisis situation led the crisis spread in most parts of the world in a short period. In the globalization period, that states in different parts of the world become dependent each other by economic and trading relations make the crisis?s effect globally.Global crisis started to affect Turkish economy in the second half of 2008 actually. The crisis made negative effects also on the automative sector that increasing locomotive sector of Turkish Economy in 2000?s. The negative effects can be observed on the marketing, production and export numbers of the sector. In this thesis, because of the global crisis, we are dealing with the crisis situation of Turkish automative sector that live the last of quarter of 2008 and generally 2009 with minus values and decreases, and we also try to show the measures to be taken and solution advises for the future of Turkish automative sector.