ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW, vol.26, no.3, pp.301-316, 2006 (SSCI)
National development plans were started to be prepared in Turkey in 1963. These plans are mandatory for public investments and guiding principles for private investments. They have a quality which guides and sets objectives for other plans in the country. Therefore, they can be evaluated as the main reason of successes and failures of sectoral investments or the problems that they cause directly or indirectly.