Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Attending the Niğde Economy Awards Meeting, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that chambers and exchanges have accomplished great works for the business world; enabling access of 600,000 companies to credit loans as well as providing employment to 1.6 million people as a part of the employment mobilization. Hisarcıklıoğlu said, "We have succeeded a province in the world, we have kept our promise".​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, together with the Minister of Customs and Trade Bülent Tüfenkci, attended the Ürgüp Economic Value Contributors Award Ceremony. Speaking at a meeting hosted by Ürgüp Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Ahmet Aydın, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “If the entrepreneur is strong, the city will be strong and the nation will be strong. To this end, our public administration, politicians, and this community should be the first to embrace these people.”​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that the future of kçakoca and Düzce is very bright at the Contributors to Akçakoca Award Ceremony held by the Akçakoca CCI, “Residents of Düzce have 2.1 billion TRY in the bank. This means that you are well off in the economic sense,” he said.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “I want to share these good news: There are courageous people who build the domestic automobile, the car which will be Turkey’s brand.”​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu attended Çaycuma Chamber of Commerce and Industry Food, Agriculture Vocational High School Protocol Signing Ceremony and the Contributors to the Çaycuma Economy Award Ceremony.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu spoke at the Tax Record Holders Awards Ceremony organized by the Devrek Chamber of Commerce and Industry and emphasized that Devrek does not have an Organized Industrial Zone despite being an industrial city and that the problem of land for OIZs is the purview of Science and Technology Minister Faruk Özlü and that he would personally speak with him in the evening.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu visited NG Collection and Art House belonging to Nafi Güral, Kütahya Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman, as a part of his Kütahya itinerary.​

speaking at the joint review meeting organized jointly by Kütahya Commerce and Industry Chamber and Kütahya Commodity Exchange, TOBB President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that during crisis, trade and industry profitability is declining, while the banks' profits increase by 50%. Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “The banks shut the umbrella in the rainy weather and open it in the sunny weather.”​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu visited Eskişehir after the award ceremony of the “Added Value for the Regional Economy” organized by Bozüyük Chamber of Commerce and Industry and visited Eskişehir Chamber of Commerce's new service building, congress and fair center construction.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and the Minister of Customs and Trade Bülent Tüfenkci attended the opening ceremony of the new service building of the Bozüyük Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the “Award Ceremony of Value Added to the Regional Economy” in Bozüyük, Bilecik.​