28.11.2020 İstanbul
With the participation of Treasury and Finance Minister Lütfi Elvan, Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül, Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli, Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan, Minister of Family, Labor and Social Services Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk and CBRT President Naci Ağbal, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, who made evaluations after the meeting with the Management of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) and 60 TOBB Sector Councils, said, “We believe that we will solve the problems in the economy through dialogue and consultation.”
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu said in his
statement:
“We conducted a very comprehensive consultation
consisting of two sessions with the participation of Treasury and Finance
Minister Lütfi Elvan, Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül, Minister of Industry and
Technology Mustafa Varank, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli,
Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan, Family, Labor and Social Services Minister Zehra Zümrüt
Selçuk and CBRT President Naci Ağbal.
In the first session, we consulted the economic
and reform agenda together with our TOBB Board of Directors.
In the second part, we held Turkey's largest
and most comprehensive sectoral meeting, bringing all sectors together.
TOBB Turkey Sector Councils are the largest
companies in each sector and related sectoral associations. Our Sector Councils
brought together the most prominent problems in each sector and their ideas for
solving them and forwarded them to the Ministers via videoconference. We had a
very comprehensive and productive meeting.
We were very pleased that the problems
experienced in the business and investment environment and our solution
proposals for them were addressed in a constructive dialogue environment. It
was very valuable for us to see our government with us during this period when
we had various difficulties domestically and internationally.
We believe that the visions of our Ministers,
especially Our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to do executive and reformist
work are of great importance at the point of overcoming the difficulties. We
think that this vision of our government will be decisive for the
implementation of reforms and strengthening stability.
We would like to thank our esteemed Ministers
and Central Bank President on behalf of the Turkish private sector, who have
not left us alone in our struggle to grow the economy, who have showed their
support at every opportunity and provided this beautiful consultation
environment.”
Treasury and Finance Minister Lütfi Elvan said
on his twitter account: “We continued our discussions with the business world
with TOBB. We listened to the opinions and suggestions of our ministers, Mr.
Abdulhamit Gül, Mrs. Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk, Mr. Mustafa Varank, Mr. Bekir
Pakdemirli and Mr. Ruhsar Pekcan and the TOBB delegation. We had a
result-oriented meeting.”
TOBB Executive Vice Presidents, Ali Kopuz,
Selçuk Özturk, Ayhan Zeytinoğlu, Tamer Kıran, TOBB Board Treasurer Faik Yavuz
and TOBB Board Members Cengiz Günay, Mahmut Özgener, Özturk Oran, Zeki Kıvanç,
Oğuzhan Sadıkoğlu, Davut Cetin, Özer Matlı, Hakan Ülken and Selim Kandemir
attended the meeting held at the Dolmabahçe Work Office of the Presidency.