19.08.2024 Ankara

Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz attended the Consultative Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye. At the meeting, comprehensive evaluations were made on the Medium Term Program to be announced in September and the problems experienced by the real sector.

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu made a statement regarding the meeting, which was also attended by İbrahim Şenel, President of the Presidency Strategy and Budget, and said, “It was a useful, solution-oriented meeting lasting 7.5 hours. At the meeting, we conveyed the problems, demands and suggestions of the real sector on many issues, from access to financing, which SMEs have recently faced, to competition problems in labor-intensive sectors. We discussed the steps to be taken in the anti-inflation process and the expectations of our business world on inflation accounting. We thank them for their open approach to consultation.”

- Vice President Yılmaz's evaluation

Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz made the following statement on his social media account:

“We continue our preparations for the Medium Term Program (MTP) covering the period 2025-2027, which we will announce in September. In this context, hosted by the President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye, Mr. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, we received the observations, opinions and suggestions of the TOBB Board Members regarding both the MTP we will update and different issues concerning the real sector.

While we are going through a challenging period economically and geopolitically in the world and in our region, we are building our future strongly in an environment of political stability and trust, with predictable policies based on consultations. In this process, we rely on the experience and dynamism of our business world.

In the period ahead, our main objective will be to reduce inflation, grow in stability and increase social welfare permanently. In this context, we will maintain the main framework of the MTP we published last year and continue to support investment, employment, production and exports. We will also continue our efforts to heal the wounds of the biggest earthquake disaster in our history and prepare our country to be much more resilient for the future.

I would like to thank TOBB President Mr. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and the esteemed members of the TOBB administration for contributing to our work with their opinions and suggestions.”