After a week of firld work, we are ready to leave Zonguldak. But there is one more place to see on our way, which is the district of Ereğli. Like Karabük, Ereğli is one of the bases of iron and steel manufacturing in Turkey, which contributed to the development of Zonguldak as a mining city. In fact, Zonguldak lived its hay-days in the 1950s and 60s, thanks to the state owned enterprises of KARDEMİR in Karabük and ERDEMİR in Ereğli which were fed by the coals coming from Zonguldak. As with KARDEMİR, ERDEMİR was privatised in the 1990s and started to use imported coal, which was another reason for the drop in the production of the TTK of Zonguldak.
The iron and steel factory: ERDEMİR, which also has a port of its own.
The Ereğli shipyard
Fascinated by the size of the factory, we continued our trip back to Izmir. I think we all agreed that it had been a productive and enjoyable fieldtrip and contributed to our knowledge of deindustrialisation and urban shrinkage as experienced by Zonguldak. We are all excited to finalise the research reports with the information we gather on the site.
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