09.07.2017 Ankara
Aegean Region Consultation Meeting was held at TOBB Twin Towers. TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said that presidents of chambers and stock exchanges should inform their members about the activities they are engaged in and that the Turkish private sector should be able to benefit from the opportunities of the whole business community.
Hisarcıklıoğlu,
in regards what they should say when people ask what the chambers and exchanges
accomplish, “Tell them what has been done, what you have done. All of your
members should have knowledge of these and benefit from them.”
Detailed
presentations on the demands from the government and the actualized goals of
the business community in the last 6 months as well as the results of a
detailed vertical slice study survey of the business community.
Referring
to the fact that all the economies in the east and west are in general growth,
Hisarcıklıoğlu said that the growing economies will come to mean more trade and
profits.
Noting
that Europe is seeing the highest growth since the global crisis, the TOBB
President pointed out that 50% of Turkey's exports are to this market.
Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that the effects of the government's economic measures
are beginning to be show their effect and he mentioned that a growth rate of 5%
is pleasing. Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that the biggest share of this growth
belongs to the private sector and he asked the chairmen of the chambers and
stock exchanges to maintain these figures and trends.
TOBB
President Hisarcıklıoğlu noted that the growth means employment, “In February,
the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was present at
the TOBB Trade and Industry Meeting. He urged that everyone there employ at
least one other person. In the first 6 months you wrote a great success story.
You hired 1,2 million people. This is a world record. There is no example of
this in any other country.”