Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

TOBB’s 71st General Assembly was held with the attendances of the Prime Minister Davutoğlu, CHP Chairman Kılıçdaroğlu, MHP Vice Chairman Vural and TOBB delegates. TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that the business community wants to create a new growth epic and emphasized that they want politicians to enact new structural reforms together, posthaste.​

Prior to TOBB’s 71st General Assembly, delegates, chamber exchange presidents, youth and women entrepreneurs, foreign representatives and the TOBB Board convened at ATO Congresium for dinner.​

TOBB members who have completed their 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th years were presented with Certificates of Honor for Service. Attending the ceremony hosted by TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu was the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. ​

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), on the occasion of its 71st Annual General Assembly, visited Anıtkabir to stand in the presence of Atatürk; a delegation led by TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and comprised of the TOBB General Assembly Chair, TOBB Board, Councils, chamber and exchange presidents as well as various delegates.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, in his celebratory message for May 1st Labor and Solidarity Day, said, “As members of a civilization which recognizes the sanctity of labor, the sweat of the brow and the just distribution of wealth, recognizing these to be fundamental, I wish prosperity, health and happiness for all laborers.”​

President of the Republic of Tartary Rustam Minnihanov visited TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. Four important cooperation agreements were signed. The Business Council to be established will prepare its action plan for speeding up economic and financial activities within three months. Minnihanov expressed their desire to increase cooperation, inviting Turkish companies to use Tartary as a staging area for doing business in the Russian market. He invited Turkish companies to invest.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, thanking the council members who attended the seminars, approximately three thousand, and said, “It is praiseworthy that individuals would set away three days in order to find out how to be better acquainted with their community; to learn how to better develop themselves and to contribute more to their regions.”​

During Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture’s (ICCIA) 31st General Assembly Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, TOBB, Sudanese Businessmen and Employers Federation (SBEF) and the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Artisans of Guinea (CCIAG) signed an agreement for a business committee.​

In Uganda for the Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture’s (ICCIA) meetings, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and the delegation accompanying him visited Ugandan Prime Minister Rugunda.​

Established by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey and the Union of African Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Professions (UACCIAP), the Turkish-African Chamber approved its 2015-2016 Action plan at its meeting in Kampala, Uganda. ​