07.03.2018 Van
TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “We have raised our country to the position of 17th largest economy in the world and now we have a goal to become one of the top 10, 2.5 times richer.”
Participating in the Van and counties Trade and Industry Chamber -
Commodity Exchanges Joint Meeting, Hisarcıklıoğlu stated they stand united with
all the chambers and the commodity exchange chairs in Turkey and are at peace.
Hisarcıklıoğlu emphasized that members can now do all kinds of
transactions on their computers without going to the chamber and commodity
exchange with the new system in which members who used to go door to door during
company establishments can now complete the establishment transactions from a single
chamber.
- “We’ve vouched for 681,000
companies”
Pointing out that, in order to enable their members to access finances,
they vouched for 50 members in Van, Hisarcıklıoğlu went on:
“The number of companies we are vouching for regarding their interest-free
credit in Turkey are 681,000. What other institution does this? We held an economy
summit with the President at the beginning of 2017. We told President Erdoğan
that we were the employment tax burden champion of the world. Being one of us,
he of course asked us what we would offer in return for lowered taxes on
employment. He asked that we create more jobs. We have created a million and a
half jobs. No other country would be able to do so in the world. A total of
26,000 jobs in Van. Van is 9th province in employment numbers in Turkey.
On New Years’, we held an award ceremony wit the President and asked that the
various support mechanisms for employment continue. For each employee that we hire
this year we will pay the net minimum wage of 1,60TRY and the government will
pay the whole of the tax -this is a great reform.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu, Turkey is ranked the ease of doing business index and
noting that the sixtieth that suit them, Turkey is world champion in growth in
the fourth quarter, he said that thanks to entrepreneurs realized.
TOBB President explaining that they are doing extensive studies in the
Coordination Council for Improvement of Investment Environment with the
Ministers in regards to the issues reported by the business community, said, “We
are among the world's 20 largest economies, but we rank 60th in ease
of business index. Why don’t people want to be entrepreneurs? There are many
obstacles to doing business. We met with our government. You will see, in 2
years Turkey will be among the top 20 countries in ease of business index. The
law which was passed yesterday was revolutionary for us. There 59 countries
with easier company establishment, execution, bankruptcy, construction permits,
title deeds, municipal applications, tax payments than us. Hopefully this will
be the law to bring Turkey into the top 20.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu warned that none should be alienated due to their
ethnicity, political view or differing opinions, “We have raised our country to
the position of 17th largest economy in the world and now we have a
goal to become one of the top 10, 2.5 times richer. I see it as someone who
travels every province. For that, peace must rule in our country. Without peace
there is no trade, without trade there is no prosperity.”