06.03.2023 Ankara
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) President and Türkiye-EU Joint Consultative Committee Co-Chair M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu attended the foreign relations session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).
Hisarcıklıoğlu, who
spoke at the section on 'Mobilization of the European Union to Support the
People of Türkiye and Syria after the Destructive Earthquake' held under the
chairmanship of Dimitris Dimitriadis, Head of the Foreign Relations Department
of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), gave information about
the earthquake in Türkiye, its effects and TOBB's work in this context.
Also speaking in this
section were Antoine Lemasson, Head of Unit Head of the Emergency Response
Coordination Centre (ERCC) of the European Commission's Directorate General for
European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), and Magali
Mourlon, Head of Disaster Management Unit of the EU Office of the Red Cross.