Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

With Türkiye's Entrepreneurial Women Power Contest, which is planned to be repeated every year, it is aimed that the entrepreneurs who enter the list will assume the role of opinion leader in their own regions and inspire potential women entrepreneur candidates with the success stories of the companies they own.

The companies participating in the competition will be listed in two categories: “The Company with the Highest Increase in Women's Employment” and “Entrepreneurial Women's Power”. The companies that are entitled to enter the list by fulfilling the conditions of participation in the competition will receive their awards from TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council President Nurten Öztürk at the ceremony to be held on November 19^th, 2022.

Applications to Türkiye's Entrepreneurial Women Power Contest can be made at https://girisimcikadingucu.tobb.org.tr/ until September 30^th, 2022.

- Application Criteria

In 2020, all companies with at least 25 women employees and headquartered in Türkiye will be able to apply to the “Company with the Most Increase in Women's Employment” category.

In the “Entrepreneurial Women's Power” category, the companies of women entrepreneurs who apply throughout Türkiye will be evaluated in the sub-categories of “The Fastest Growing Women Entrepreneur”, “The Most Environmentally Friendly Women Entrepreneur”, “The Most Digitalized Women Entrepreneur” and “The Woman Entrepreneur Who Increases Her Exports the Most”. In this category, women entrepreneurial companies with a business history of at least 3 years, having a sales revenue of at least TL 1 million in 2019, having a sales revenue of at least TL 2 million in 2021, increasing their sales revenues by at least 10 percent in the period of 2019 - 2021, and having a headquarters in Türkiye will be able to apply.

- Hisarcıklıoğlu: “We will grow our economy with the support and power of women”

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, who made a statement about the competition, stated that there is no job that women cannot accomplish when given the opportunity; that women should take a more active role in social life and business life, and that Türkiye will become stronger as the weight of women in economy and business life increases.

Emphasizing that TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council has become Türkiye's largest entrepreneurial women's network, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “It has become a brand in the chamber/commodity exchange community in Türkiye and around the world. Our main goal in this structure is for successful women to be role models for young people coming up. Women should aspire to be entrepreneurs and never be afraid of not succeeding. Look, there are hundreds of examples. They all saw difficulties but never gave up. Today, they have come to the best positions with their courage and original projects.

At this point, our TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Board (KGK), in cooperation with the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Türkiye (TEPAV), has created a great project and launched Türkiye's Entrepreneurial Women Power Competition.

I attach great importance to this path taken in order to increase the visibility of women entrepreneurship in Türkiye, to encourage their effectiveness by integrating them into national/international networks and to support their personal development and help them advance their careers. From here, I call on all our companies to further increase women's employment and all our women to boldly take their place in the business world and to grow their place. Never forget, your successes are not only yours, but also the success of our country.”

- Nurten Öztürk: “I invite you to apply to Türkiye's Entrepreneurial Women Power competition”

TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council President Nurten Öztürk pointed out that the development of countries is possible with the full reflection of women's labor on the economy and said, “I believe that women should be more effective in the business world in order to have a strong economy and a developed social structure. With the participation of women in more employment, becoming entrepreneurs and participating in the economy, that is, with the empowerment and development of women, the level of modernity of societies increases.”

Emphasizing that 'courage' is another source of motivation as important as the need for financing for women entrepreneurs, Öztürk said that they have launched Türkiye's Entrepreneurial Women Power competition in cooperation with TEPAV in order to increase the visibility of women's entrepreneurship in Türkiye, to ensure that they are a source of inspiration and to help them advance their careers by supporting their personal development.

Nurten Öztürk invited entrepreneurial women who attach importance to women's employment and develop themselves in the fields of economy, environment, technology and exports to apply to the “Entrepreneurial Women Power of Türkiye” competition to share their success stories.