02.02.2018 İstanbul
İbrahim Çağlar Meeting Hall was opened at the TOBB Istanbul Service Building. TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu spoke at the ceremony held for the opening of the hall, which will commemorate the late TOBB Board Member İbrahim Çağlar. “It is important to have a good life and to leave behind good works. What joy if we can do this. My brother İbrahim, Allah willing, is fulfilled in this regard. A good life, good works and good sons left behind. He has left a name that is remembered with appreciation.”
TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarciklioglu pointed out that it is painful
for a man to lose a loved one, saying: "We believe that we all came from
God and we will return to him. May Almighty Allah grant İbrahim Çaglar of his
bounteous mercy. We met in 1991. We had a 27-year-old friendship. He was the
son of a respectable, entrepreneurial family. He continued his life in this
line. When he was 7 years old, it was already evident that he would be a businessman
of entrepreneurial character. After graduating from high school, he stepped
into company life. In 1984 he became a manager and became a partner in 1985.
My brother İbraham was as successful in social lifeas he was in commercial
life. He was a member of İstanbul Chamber of Commerce at every level. He
started at the profession committee first. Later on, he became prominent with
his parliamentary membership; as a part of the board of directors, and the
parliamentary presidency. TO members, too, saw him fit to be president because
of his success and vision. Since 2005, we worked together under TOBB
management. In 2005, he became TOBB Treasurer of the board of directors. In
2013, he became Vice President of TOBB. We have worked together in many
projects of TOBB. We are colleagues in the TOBB Education and Culture
Foundation and the management of the TEPAV. We are honored to have such a
friend in TOBB management as well as working side by side with him.”
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Hisarcıklıoğlu, recalling the saying, “The most beneficent of men is he
who is beneficent unto others.” Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed out that İbrahim Çağlar
has passed from this mortal world, leaving many charities behind. He was a
successful businessman and a good son as well as patriotic and faithful. He did
not have to provide, was helpful and open in social life. A good husband and father.
He was emotional, but he was a person who always knew how to separate feelings
and thoughts from each other. He was always at work to contribute to İstanbul,
to Turkey and the community.”
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu said that the world is a place of testing on
the path to eternity; emphasizing that what is important is that the person fits
as much good as they can in such a short mortal life. Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “We
now want to put that into action. We will always remember him. May heaven be
his abode; may he rest in the light. May Allah grant his family, loved ones and
us all patience as well as the strength to endure.”
Following the ceremony, TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu presented the
children of Çağlar with the original copy of the trade gazette registry of the company
the departed had been a partner of for the first time in his life.