Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

At the meeting hosted by the Muğla Chamber of Commerce and Industry, TOBB Muğla Women Entrepreneurs Council President Mehtap Şehiz Çahan gave information about the projects carried out in cooperation with TOBB.

Çahan said in her speech, “As the KGK, we have carried out some studies to increase the number of women entrepreneurs and women's employment in Muğla, to be a role model for women and to ensure the awareness of our board in Muğla. We were selected as the pilot province together with İzmir and Antalya in the Our Business is Clean Project. In cooperation with TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council, OPET, Public Education Centers affiliated to the Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Lifelong Learning, we provided support to provide hygiene trainings to a total of 4500 micro-enterprises from the food and beverage, accommodation and transportation sectors. We contributed to the creation of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Women and Young Entrepreneurs Community within the framework of university-industry cooperation in order to instill an entrepreneurial spirit in young people and especially young girls, to spread entrepreneurship culture and to explain entrepreneurship as a profession. Following the announcement of Türkiye's gender equality report card in 81 provinces, we carried out the ‘Fathers and Daughters’ project, in which the success story of 63 women who took over from their fathers was told, in order to crown Muğla, which was selected as the most egalitarian province, with a project worthy of this title.”

Bülent Karakuş, President of Muğla Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stated that as Muğla Chamber of Commerce and Industry, they support the work of all district chambers and commodity exchanges and Women and Young Entrepreneurs Councils, and said, “In 2015, Muğla KGK put forward the ‘100 Women in 100 Years’ project, which included women who had served Muğla. We realized the second of this prestige project in 2022 with the Fathers and Daughters Project.I would like to express my thanks once again our Muğla KGK President Mehtap Şeniz Çahan and the entrepreneurial, rational and courageous women of Muğla, especially the Executive Committee. I would like to promise that we will support every work that prioritizes women in a male-dominated structure and reveals women in every economic, social-political field. We know that reason and success have no gender. If women are strong, society and country will be strong. We know that an economy cannot grow if women's hands are not in it. In the name of the growth and development of our country’s economy, we want our women, who constitute half of our population, to take part in the business world at the same rate.”

After Dr. Şaban Kızıldağ’s “Women Inspiring the Initiative” seminar, a consultation meeting was held with the participation of regional provincial presidents.

At the meeting, opinions were exchanged on the inclusion of new women entrepreneurs in the ecosystem, the strengthening of existing women entrepreneurs, the development of cooperation with universities and the expectations from the existing projects carried out.