Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

The meeting was organized with the participation of Günseli Özen, Vice President of TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council, Birce Bilici Şimşek, TOBB Çanakkale Women Entrepreneurs Council President, Arçelik Retail Academy and Beko executives. In the program, details were conveyed in a special panel for those who want to become dealers within the scope of Beko 100 Women Dealer project.

Günseli Özen, Vice President of the Women Entrepreneurs Council of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, started by sending her loving greetings to the participants on behalf of TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council President Nurten Öztürk. “‎Within the scope of Beko 100 Women Dealers project, our task is to contribute to bringing industrialized labor to the economy. ‎ We will create added value for our women in three different sectors. We will make those in the business world stronger; We will support new female entrepreneurs who want to enter the business world and reach out to them through cooperatives to bring women from rural areas that we consider vulnerable to social life. We should be training these three sectors. Beko 100 Women Dealer project reaches women in these three fields and offers them a comprehensive training program.”

TOBB Canakkale KGK President Birce Bilici Simsek started by thanking those who contributed and participated, “The figures regarding the economic representation of our women are very striking. Women make up 49.8% of Turkey's population. Women's participation in the workforce was 26.7 percent, compared to 64.8 percent for men. When the rates of female entrepreneurship in Turkey and other countries are evaluated, Turkey's rate remains well below the desired level. Factors such as stereotyping of women's role in society, lack of education, lack of support when starting a business prevent the spread of entrepreneurship culture among women. However, women should take part in all levels of business life in order to increase economic growth, reduce poverty, increase social welfare and sustainable growth.”

Beko Sales Director Burak Bilgisel said, “As Beko, we always support and stand by women's participation in the business world. We are happy to be in Çanakkale with the face-to-face trainings we would like to carry out within the scope of the Heroines of Entrepreneurship Project. We aim to support and empower entrepreneurial women. The primary goal of this project is to be able to encourage them in business life with education and to help women get their rightful place in business life in a safe, competitive and equipped way. Since it is integrated with our 100 Women Dealers Project, I would like to share that we will be happy to join the entrepreneurial women of Marmara Region who want to become Beko dealers after the trainings.”