Information services through the Public Information Centers.
Send us your questions! If you did not find the answers to your questions on the Information Kiosk website, the information services of the PIC in Turkey will help you get them as fast as possible through a priority research assistance service. The delay of our reply depends on the complexity of the request.

Contacts details
The World Bank - Public Information Center
Ugur Mumcu Cad. No. 88, 2nd Floor,
GOP 06700 Ankara, Turkey

Contact Person
Arsev Umur Aydinoglu
Phone: 90 312 459 8337
E-mail aaydinoglu@worldbank.org

For other PICs in Central and Eastern Europe click here

World Bank Depository libraries
Everywhere in the world, the World Bank publications can be consulted in 'depository' or 'regional' libraries by interested users.

• Depository Libraries receive all official World Bank publications (about 200 titles per year); whereas
• Regional Libraries receive all major annual publications and any official publications concerning the library's particular geographic region (around 40 titles per year).

The list of all libraries and contact details are available here.

In Turkey, the World Bank has ten depository libraries: Depository Libraries in Turkey

Inter-library loans with the PIC libraries and direct access to full-text
Consult the list of books available at PICs in Europe through our Global Jolis database if you wish to order a book. All print publications and documents of the Public Information Center libraries are catalogued into a public database called Global Jolis and their titles can be consulted on the internet by anyone searching for information on our collection. These include: Publications, project documents, economic and sector reports, documents from the Operations and Evaluation Department, Policy Research Working Papers, newsletters, guidelines, standard bidding documents, some documents from IFC, MIGA, and ICSID, and more.

To make a search, enter your search criteria on the above part of the screen, select the country from the library box in the Search Limits section, then press the Search Catalog icone.

If you are interested in a specific book, please ask your library to contact us so that we can forward the book to the appropriate librarian in your institution. Deadlines for loans should not exceed three weeks. 

You can sometimes access the full text if the link is highlighted on top of the description page.