** Shares of Tekfen Holding TKFEN.IS jump 3.56% after
Turkey-based holding company's subsidiary Tekfen Insaat ve
Tesisat wins tender worth $212 millions
** Tekfen İnşaat, Turkey-based company, which engages in
heavy and civil engineering construction, has received
notification that it has won the tender for the EPC works of the
"Package-16 MGSE III: Jeddah Cluster" pipeline project in Saudi
Arabia
** Tekfen Holding said that the project is estimated to have
a value of approximately $212 million and is expected to be
completed within 40 months
** Brokerage Deniz Yatirim and Ziraat Yatirim evaluates new
project as positive for Tekfen shares
** Deniz Yatirim notes the company has a remaining backlog
of $748.7 million and this newly awarded project represents
approximately 28% of the remaining backlog
(Reporting by Canan Sevgili)
((canan.sevgili@thomsonreuters.com))