said Burak Pehlivan, the Chairman of the International Turkish-Ukrainian Business Association, (Kyiv Post). Boosted by the Zelenskiy government’s ‘Big Construction’ program, Turkish companies have undertaken 2000 construction projects worth more than $7 billion since the 1990s. In 2020, a year of reduced cross border investment, Turkey was the largest source of new foreign investment, investing $400 million in Ukraine. Currently 700 Turkish companies work in Ukraine, nurturing a total foreign investment of $3.5 billion.