Amazon, one of the world's leading e-commerce companies, has decided to invest in Turkey. The U.S. company will build a logistics base in Tuzla, Istanbul, with an investment of over $100 million. At the facility, which is scheduled to open in the fall, hiring processes will begin for departments such as engineering, human resources, accounting, operations, and information processing (IT) for the logistics base to be built, while hiring of customer service and logistics teams will begin in the coming months. According to projections, the company will employ more than 1,000 people in a year. Perego, the company's vice president for European operations, gave the message "We trust Turkey".
Amazon first started selling online in Turkey in 2018. The company, which has been booming in the country since then, has decided to make a major investment in Turkey after five years. The company, which shared its investment plan with the public yesterday, plans to create jobs for more than 1000 employees within a year with the first logistics base in Turkey, which is scheduled to open in Istanbul this fall. An investment of more than $100 million is planned for the construction of the new logistics base, which will serve the recent increase in customer demand.
Stefano Perego, Vice President of Operations at Amazon Europe, commented, "We are pleased to open our first logistics base in Turkey in Istanbul and would like to take this opportunity to underline our confidence in Turkey. We are very excited about the more than a thousand new jobs we will create in the first year by providing a modern and safe working environment with satisfactory wages and benefits." Perego continued, "We offer career opportunities with diversity and inclusion for candidates with different experiences and educational backgrounds in the hiring process.” Amazon is not only active in the e-commerce field. The company is also conducting major studies in online publishing, digital data services, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. The founder and CEO of the company, American businessman Jeff Bezos, is one of the five richest people in the world with a personal fortune of $187.3 billion.
