14.02.2014 İstanbul
Foreign Economic Relations Council (DEİK) is restructuring itself. While the executive board is being dismantled, a Presidential Council comprised of five Vice Presidents and a treasurer will be formed. DEİK Vice Presidents will be Ayhan Zeytinoğlu, Erdal Eren, Şeraffetin Aşut, Tuncay Özilhan and Zeynel Abidin Erdem while Tuğrul Erkin has been elected as treasurer.
DEİK and TOBB
President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu expressed that they will achieve a more
dynamic management with the organizational structure. Hisarcıklıoğlu stated
that the current economic problems would be overcome, “A day will come when
every home in the world will use a product made in Turkey. I believe this.”
A Presidential
Council comprised of five Vice Presidents and a treasurer will be formed due to
the number of business councils, agencies and activities. The Presidential
Council held its first meeting presided over by TOBB and DEİK Board President
M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and conducted a distribution of tasks on a sectoral and
national basis.
Kocaeli Chamber of Industry President Ayhan Zeytinoğlu, Türkiye
Contractors’ Council Erdal Eren, Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry President
Şerafettin Aşut, Turkish-Russian Business Forum President Tuncay Özilhan, Turkish-Spanish
Business Council President Dr. Zeynel Abidin Erdem were elected as Vice
Presidents. Turkey-Eurasia Business Councils Coordinator President Tuğrul Erkin
was elected as treasurer.
- DEİK shifting to
greater goals
Stating that, with its new management model, DEİK will become more
active, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “DEİK has achieved significant successes in the
last 5 years. The founding institutions number has doubled to 42. Business
council number doubled to 115. We also established DEİK agencies at chambers
and exchanges – 148 of them. We have not only achieved quantitative growth. We
have also created sectoral business councils and cooperation with local
agencies has been formed. We have greater goals for the coming term and that is
why our organizational structure needed to become more dynamic hence, the new
structure. We will dismantle the
executive board, instating in its place a Presidential Council comprised of
five Vice Presidents with predefined duties and responsibilities and a
treasurer.”
- New target markets
Stating that the
primary indicators of the Turkish economy are solid, the TOBB President said,
“The Turkish private sector’s power and experience is sufficient to overcome the
current issues. All that is necessary to achieve this is to be more determined
and imperturbable that ever before. There is no need to be depressed and focus
on the empty half of the glass. We will keep our morale and spirits up. We will
work harder with our business councils in order to find new clients and to open
up to new markets. Hopefully, there will come a day when every home in the
world will use a product made in Turkey.”