21.02.2020 Ankara
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu attended the Council Members Information Seminar. Hisarcıklıoğlu, giving a message of unity and solidarity to the council members, advising them to tell everything they do and inform their members.
Reminding
that no president has been appointed in the TOBB community and elected to
office by taking winning the vote of even their competitors, Hisarcıklıoğlu
said that the offices they hold they are in are not receiving, but offices of self-sacrifice.
Stating
that the task given to council members and presidents is to protect the
interests of its members, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “My task
is to follow-up on the issues conveyed to me by my 365-chamber and commodity exchange
presidents. Go and tell them about the President, ministers, chief executives, whoever’s
in charge. We don't have sanction power. Our job is to tell.”
“The
best of people is what is useful to people,” Hisarcıklıoğlu said, underlining
that giving a person a job and food is the best charity.
TOBB
President, urging council members to form good foundations for dialogue in
their regions, said, “Do not forget that you are the mortar of this country.
Traders are the mortar of the business not only in our country, but all over
the world. Each purchase is actually an agreement.”