08.06.2024 Ankara
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu attended the Council Members Information Seminar.
In his speech at the
seminar, Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed out the purpose of the trainings organized for
the council members and said, “You are the elected representatives of your
city, your sector, you are opinion leaders. I did not appoint any of you, you
are in the most democratic institution in Türkiye. There is a beautiful saying
in our culture that the one who knows and the one who does not know are not the
same. As opinion leaders, you are the ones who should know. First of all, you
need to learn your own institution's powers, duties and actions well."
Hisarcıklıoğlu said
that the council members were given the task of protecting the rights and laws
of the chamber members and their sectors, and that this would only be possible
by closely following the problems of the members and lobbying the executive
authorities at the point of their solution, “It is not necessary that you have
the same opinion, but you need to get along well with the administrators of
your city, mayor, governor, district governor, whoever there is, and establish
a good dialogue.”
In his address to the
council members, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu emphasized the
importance of unity and solidarity and said, “Do not marginalize each other.
Understand those who think differently. Allah has created us all differently.
We will all think differently. Then we will come together with common ideas. If
you love each other, you will be happy.”