Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, along with Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay, visited the TRNC Speaker of the Parliament Sibel Siber and TRNC Prime Minister Özkan Yorgancıoğlu at their offices. Present during the meetings were Director of Religious Affairs Mehmet Görmez, Turkey’s Ambassador to Lefkoşa Halil İbrahim Akça and TRNC Deputy Prime Minister, Economy, Tourism, Culture and Sports Minister Serdar Denktaş and other officials.​

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) published a prestige edition of “The Light Which Descends Upon the Desert” to commemorate one of the great names in Turkish literary and philosophical world, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek on the 30th anniversary of his passing.​

“The Great Eastern Thought and The Characteristics of the Ideal Turkish Youth in the Works of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek” essay contest award ceremony was hosted by TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu at the TOBB Union Chamber, attended by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.​

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu visited the fourth Local and Traditional Gift Products Fair. Visiting each stall in turn, Hisarcıklıoğlu received information regarding the goods. He stated, “The most prosperity is to be found in local goods. Every province and country has its own particular goods and riches. In order to turn these into prosperity, this fair and others like it are very important.”​

The foundation laying ceremony for the new Halkalı Customs Office facilities which will be built in Büyükçekmece with the build-operate-transfer model was attended by the President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, the Customs and Commerce Minister Hayati Yazıcı, MPs, bureaucrats as well chamber and exchange presidents.​

The Bosnian-American Foundation Chairman Sasha Toperich visited TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu at his office in the TOBB Union Center.​

BALO, transporting the goods of Anatolian industrialists to Europe, started its run with a historical record. Departing from Manisa last Sunday (September 8th), the first fare train of the Great Anatolia Logistics Organizations Inc. (BALO) reached Germany in 4 days. Stating that the travel time has been brought down to the minimum possible by speeding up bureaucratic processes, it was noted that 4 days are a historical record in railways transportation terms.​

The first privately funded freight train has departed from Anatolia to Europe as a part of the Great Anatolia Logistics Organizations Inc., representing a partnership of 93 entities from the affiliated chambers and exchanges of TOBB. Speaking at the departure of the first train, attended by the Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication Minister Binali Yıldırım, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu emphasized that the project will increase the competitive power of the Turkish private sector and said, “The transportation network is like the circulatory system of the body. If the veins fail to work the system will become blocked. If the transportation network is defunct in a country, the economy will not grow.”​