Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Held closed to the press under the auspices of the Deputy PM Lütfi Elvan, the meeting was attended by Internal Affairs Minister Efkan Ala, Minister of the Treasury Naci Ağbal, Environment and Urbanism Minister Fatma Güldemet Sarı, EU Deputy Minister Ali Şahin, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, TOBB Treasurer Faik Yavuz TİM Chair Mehmet Büyükekşi, MÜSİAD Chair Nail Olpak, TÜSİAD Deputy Chair Ali Koç, YASED Chair Ahmet Erdem and Foreign Economic Relations Council (DEİK) Chair Ömer Cihad Vardan.

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu stated in his speech that he has been attending YOİKK’s meetings since the day it was established, that he has not seen the will he sees present today and said, “The fact that YOİKK has, for the first time, come together with political will to seek solutions and that the government is participating in the micro scale for solving the problems of the real sector, has given me hope.”

Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that they would continue to provide support as per the road map.

Deputy PM Elvan stated that economy and improvement of investment environment lies at the heart of the reforms and that they will continue their efforts in the future.

Reminding that a meeting was held in February in regards to improvement of investment environment, Elvan said, “During the meeting in February, we requested that TOBB, TÜSİAD, MÜSİAD, TİM, YASED and DEİK convene to identify the steps necessary for the improvement of investment environment and present their findings to us. To this end, civil society organizations have fulfilled their duty. We will be receiving a detailed report today.”

Reporting that advisement sets for the improvement of investment environment have been delivered to the relevant ministries and ministers, Elvan stated that they would be finalizing some of the more concrete suggestions.”