Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

The Mediation Council Meeting was held under the chairmanship of Hakan Öztatar, General Director of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Justice, with the participation of Hasan Çağlayan Dündar, Advisor to the President of TOBB and Head of Real Sector R&D and Implementation Department.​

The meeting of non-EU countries of the Union of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Eurochambres), of which the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu is the Vice President, was held via video conference hosted by the Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.​

The Bulgarian-Turkish Business Forum organized by the Bulgarian-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BULTİŞAD) was attended by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) Board Member and Turkish-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Forum Co-President Cengiz Günay wherein he gave the opening speech.​

The meeting on ‘Evaluation of Wooden Structures in Post-Earthquake Construction’ was held by TOBB Forest Products Council on March 20 at the TOBB İstanbul Service Building.​

During the first two months of the year 2023 the number of newly established Companies and the number of cooperatives increased by 11,6% and 63,0% while the number of sole proprietorships decreased by 3,2% with respect to the same period of the year 2022.​

The Mirror Committee on Electrically Powered Vehicles, which was established to follow the International Standardization studies in the field of electric vehicles, held its first meeting online with the participation of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye, the Turkish Standards Institute and Mirror Committee members.​

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) Retail Council Meeting was held via video conference with the participation of TOBB Board Member Cengiz Günay and TOBB Deputy Secretary General Cengiz Delibaş and with the intense interest of high-level representatives of the private sector and non-governmental organizations under the chairmanship of Council President Alp Önder Özpamukçu.​

The Budget Committee of the Union of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES) met in Stockholm. Representing TOBB, the Head of the Department of European Union and Foreign Relations Mustafa Bayburtlu attended the meeting. ​

The 2nd Year Event of the Million Women Mentor Program was held online in cooperation with the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, STEMconnector and TurkishWIN.​

Training, information and consultation meetings were held on March 20-21 for the distribution office personnel affiliated to the Chambers and Commodity Exchanges authorized by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB).​