Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, as a guest of the ATO Academy Personal Development Education Week activities organized by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO) in cooperation with Association of Building Construction Industry Material Suppliers Association (TİMKODER) for their members, gave important recommendations on entrepreneurship, branding and success in business life.​

Improvement of the Investment Environment Reform - Building Permits, Land Registry, the Registry and Electricity Supply Workshop took place with the opening speeches by Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ, TOBB President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mevlüt Uysal and the World Bank Turkey Director Johannes Zutt.​

Speaking at the opening of the Adana Commodity Exchange, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu expressed happiness for being in Adana, which is both the locomotive of Anatolia and its breadbasket.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarciklioglu, speaking at the opening of the Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Center, said “We are all complaining about the slow operation of the judicial system. The legal system is not only a problem for the state but also the economy. Because law means trust.”​

Bureaucratic obstacles cluttering company establishment have been removed with costs and procedures being brought down to a minimum. The establishment process of a company will now be carried out at trade registry offices, which are operated only in chambers and designed as 'one-stop-offices'. TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu stated Turkey would be among the top 10 ranking of the World Bank company registration processes following these reforms.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu attended the Joint Consultation Meeting of the Tokat Province and Counties. Hisarcıklıoğlu congratulated the Tokat entrepreneurs who kept the promise of employment mobilization, underlining the achievements of the chamber and commodity exchanges in Tokat. Employing an additional 2.6 persons per firm on average, Tokat is providing additional employment, over twice the national average.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu visited Turhal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Ömer Çenesiz as a part of his Tokat itinerary and was in consultation with Chamber’s council members.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, participating in Tokat Zile TOBB Sakarya Anatolian High School Opening Ceremony, stated that they built a primary school for Tokat in 1998 as TOBB and said, “The way to establish unity and solidarity is through education. Every investment you make in business has a risk. You invest and you either profit or you make a loss. But there is only one investment that you will never make a loss when you make it. That's the investment in education. There’s always profit in education. The city will profit, the country will profit, you will profit. Moreover, you will profit in this world and in the next.”​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu published a statement on the occasion of the March 18th Martyrs Memorial Day and the 103rd anniversary of the Çanakkale Sea Victory.​

TOBB Vice Chairman Selçuk Öztürk presented TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu the original Akhi Evran cane used in the film “Resistance Karatay,” the first motion picture film about Seljuk history.​