TÜSİAD Board of Directors announced TÜSİAD Work Program 2013-2014 with a launching a meeting on February 26th, 2013.
Mr. Muharrem Yılmaz, President of the Board of Directors of TÜSİAD opened the meeting with an address. In his opening address, Mr. Yılmaz expressed his contentment about the performance of the Turkish economy. Mr. Yılmaz remarked that Turkey has successfully decoupled its economy from the developed economies in recession and made the following comment: “Particularly in the period of 2010-2011 this decoupling protected us from the worst negative impacts of the global crisis, and provided resilience against the problems which appear to remain on global agenda for a long time in the coming period. This resilience allows us to act on a safer ground and implement healthier balancing policies, in spite of our current account deficit problem. Yes, in the year of 2012 we estimate that our growth is less than 3%. However this year and the next year will be much better.”
Mr. Yılmaz indicated that during this preparatory process they took into account the current development programs, medium term programs and the yearly program of the government as reference for the TÜSİAD Work Program 2013-2014. He commented on the commented on the aftermath of the global crisis as follows: “Even thought it seems that it is merely a crisis starting in financial sector and then invading the real economy, the real cause of the crisis is the deferred global reforms especially during the last 20 years. This is why we should read the crisis as a result of the lack of global regulations and global cooperation, and not merely a lack of financial regulations as usually understood. The recovery from the crisis should be linked to the problem of how and when this lack will be counteracted.”
Mr. Yılmaz remarked that there exists significant opportunities before Turkey in the sphere of democratization as Turkey enters a crucial phase of its democratization process in the context of the new constitution and the Kurdish problem: He stated: “Within the context of the participatory democracy, what are our tasks in this process? How can we contribute to the efforts to achieve a modern welfare state? We are a community of entrepreneurs, investing, creating employment, willing to innovate and taking risks. We want to contribute to this process which will strengthen the very ground of our activities. We consider this, as our mission and responsibility. The ground we want to be strong is the ground of democracy and the new constitution is a great opportunity to strengthen this ground.” He also mentioned the ongoing work of one and a half year of the Constitutional Conciliation Commission of the Great National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) and he expressed that he considers the establishment of a special conciliation commission on the principle of equal representation of political parties as a significant achievement.
Following the opening speeches members of the Board of Directors presented information about the activities of the TÜSİAD committees chaired by them.
Opening Address of Mr. Muharrem Yılmaz, President of the Board of Directors of TÜSİAD at the “Launching Meeting of the TÜSİAD Work Program 2013-2014”
TÜSİAD Work Program 2013-2014
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