Turkey is reportedly poised to send a delegation to China for advanced talks on teaming up with Chinese experts to process a discovered deposit of rare earth elements (REEs)—but when word of the discovery broke two years ago, it encountered a lot of scepticism as to its extent and value, and no more information on those parameters appears to have been released since. If it turned out that the deposit in Beylikova near Eskisehir in central Anatolia has the potential to deliver lucrative outcomes, it might help attract Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers to Turkey, given their need for REEs. Wh…
