Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu said in his statement:

“We conducted a very comprehensive consultation consisting of two sessions with the participation of Treasury and Finance Minister Lütfi Elvan, Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül, Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli, Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan, Family, Labor and Social Services Minister Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk and CBRT President Naci Ağbal.

In the first session, we consulted the economic and reform agenda together with our TOBB Board of Directors.

In the second part, we held Turkey's largest and most comprehensive sectoral meeting, bringing all sectors together.

TOBB Turkey Sector Councils are the largest companies in each sector and related sectoral associations. Our Sector Councils brought together the most prominent problems in each sector and their ideas for solving them and forwarded them to the Ministers via videoconference. We had a very comprehensive and productive meeting.

We were very pleased that the problems experienced in the business and investment environment and our solution proposals for them were addressed in a constructive dialogue environment. It was very valuable for us to see our government with us during this period when we had various difficulties domestically and internationally.

We believe that the visions of our Ministers, especially Our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to do executive and reformist work are of great importance at the point of overcoming the difficulties. We think that this vision of our government will be decisive for the implementation of reforms and strengthening stability.

We would like to thank our esteemed Ministers and Central Bank President on behalf of the Turkish private sector, who have not left us alone in our struggle to grow the economy, who have showed their support at every opportunity and provided this beautiful consultation environment.”

Treasury and Finance Minister Lütfi Elvan said on his twitter account: “We continued our discussions with the business world with TOBB. We listened to the opinions and suggestions of our ministers, Mr. Abdulhamit Gül, Mrs. Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk, Mr. Mustafa Varank, Mr. Bekir Pakdemirli and Mr. Ruhsar Pekcan and the TOBB delegation. We had a result-oriented meeting.”

TOBB Executive Vice Presidents, Ali Kopuz, Selçuk Özturk, Ayhan Zeytinoğlu, Tamer Kıran, TOBB Board Treasurer Faik Yavuz and TOBB Board Members Cengiz Günay, Mahmut Özgener, Özturk Oran, Zeki Kıvanç, Oğuzhan Sadıkoğlu, Davut Cetin, Özer Matlı, Hakan Ülken and Selim Kandemir attended the meeting held at the Dolmabahçe Work Office of the Presidency.