Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Hisarcıklıoğlu said:

“These days in which especially developing countries are negatively impacted by upheavals in the global economy, the emphasis of G20 leaders on growth is very promising. The Antalya Action Plan which incorporates updated growth strategy and action plans is very important for the future of the global economy. This action plan represents the Turkish business community as well as the global business community, as such, we wholly support it as B20 Turkey.

As you know, we’ve worked hard to bring SMEs which provide 60% of all employment and 80% of employment increase globally to the top of both B20’s and G20’s agendas. As TOBB and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), we’ve founded the World SME Forum. To have all of these efforts be adopted by G20 leaders and to have a private sector endeavor supported as a part of the G20 Leaders’ Declaration for the first time, is a great source of pride for us. It is very important for me to have been the Term Chair of the B20 at this junction of its 6 year history wherein it has achieved its greatest success yet.

It will be of utmost importance to prepare investment strategies in accordance with the 19 proposals of the B20 in addressing the issues of instability and uncertainty in the global economy and investment ecosystem. We are quite pleased with the decision to increase total investments of the G20 to be increased by 1% until 2018 as the business community. It is very important to emphasize the development of financing tools based on assets and the proliferation of public and private sector partnerships (PPP) which has been emphatically requested by the B20 Infrastructure and Investments Taskforce.

Support for the oft-mentioned by the B20 Trade Taskforce, the Facilitation of Trade Agreement by the World Trade Organization from the G20 leaders and the insurance that the TTIP-TPP will support and not disturb trade have reinvigorated our hopes that global trade will once again become the driving force of global economic growth.

As B20 Turkey, the representative of the global business community, we have worked hard for more robust growth and more work throughout the year. We’ve been vocal in our requests for the development of programs aiming to proliferate employment opportunities for the youth. The positive reception of our proposals in the G20 Leaders Declaration has been met with pleasure. Additionally, we thank our President and all G20 leaders for their special emphasis on entrepreneurship in regards to addressing youth unemployment.

It has been very important for us that our joint declaration with L20, the leaders of the workers’ community as the B20 be noted and adopted by the G20 leaders, giving a strong signal of confidence to the business and worker communities.”