Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

TOBB Board Member Treasurer Faik Yavuz attended the presentation ceremony of the EU Geographical Marker Certificate of Malatya apricot.​

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Turkey National Committee of the 63rd General Assembly Meeting was held at the Istanbul TOBB service building.​

Speaking at the 55th Ordinary General Assembly of the IKV held at the TOBB Plaza, Ali Kopuz, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of TOBB, stated that the IKV has made significant contributions to the development of EU-Turkey relations and that TOBB will always support IKV.​

TOBB Board Member Salih Zeki Murzioğlu Organized Industrial Zones Supreme Council (OSBÜK) 15th General Assembly attended.​

TOBB Deputy Chairman Ender Yorgancılar participated in the Tripartite Advisory Council meeting on “Seniority Payment Reform” under the chairmanship of Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu. ​

Capacity reports are compiled by local Chambers and approved by TOBB for: bench production; establishments which extract subterranean resources for the purpose of producing in mass or in a standardized manner, using tools or machinery to process half- and fully-processed products to change their properties, contents, composition or shape, fully or partially; informatics technologies and software development.​

Lazslo Parragh, President of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry visited TOBB. Parragh attended the meeting hosted by TOBB Deputy Secretary General Ali Emre Yurdakul and TOBB EU Head of Department Mustafa Bayburtlu.​

Launch and briefing meeting of the “Improving International Competitiveness in Prepackaged Food Sector” UR-GE project prepared by the Çanakkale Chamber of Commerce and Industry to increase the export capacity and competitive power of the companies in the food value chain in the TR22 Çanakkale and Balıkesir Region took place at ÇTSO Congress Exhibition Center. ​

The 34th meeting of the Turkish Defense Industry Council was held at the TOBB Union Center under the chairmanship of Council Chair Yılmaz Küçükseyhan in order to evaluate the sector in 2016 with the participation of Ministry officials and members of the council and to discuss the search for a new model for export for the sector.​

The number of newly established companies, cooperatives and the number of sole proprietorships decreased 3,07% , 2,13% , 10,64% with respect to the previous month.​