A delegation led by Ömer Karadeniz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Plastics Industrialists Federation, met with Mustafa Gültepe, President of the Turkish Exporters Assembly, and members of the TİM Board of Directors. The main agenda of the visit was the problems experienced in Turkey’s exports and proposed solutions. During the meeting, where sectoral developments were also discussed, evaluations were made on issues aimed at increasing exports.
Ömer Karadeniz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Plastics Industrialists Federation, visited Mustafa Gültepe, President of the Turkish Exporters Assembly. The meeting, which took place at TİM’s headquarters on September 27, was also attended by the presidents of associations affiliated with the PLASFED board of directors in Anatolia. The delegation included KSD YKÜ Tolga Kutluğ, Kompozit Özgür Sönmez, Depsiad Ömer Özkul, Kaypider Yusuf Özkan, Egeplasder Şener Gençer, Ömer Karadeniz, Mustafa Gültepe, Plasiad Arif İzzet İlter, Egeplasder Berat Güzelel, Plasiad Savaş Doğan, Eda Dülger, and Burpas Murat Doğan.
During the visit, evaluations were made on sectoral developments and export-related issues. At the meeting, where ideas were exchanged on increasing exports, seen as the backbone of the Turkish economy, the problems faced by industrialists were discussed.
PLASFED President Ömer Karadeniz, expressing the difficulties of plastic industrialists, provided information about current developments in the sector.
Emphasizing that global problems closely affect the Turkish economy, and therefore industrialists need to be more careful than ever, Karadeniz said, “It’s time for industry to transform. By focusing on technology-intensive products, we must produce more value-added products. By reviewing the development strategy in industry, we should focus on more value-added production beyond producing everything. To achieve all this, we need qualified human resources.”
TİM President Gültepe stated that Turkey has emerged as a reliable haven in the world by not disrupting production and exports, and noting that they have doubled high-tech product exports in 10 years, he said, "We are racing towards 100 billion dollars in medium-high and high-tech product exports."
Gültepe noted that Turkey is more expensive than its competitors in dollar terms, and therefore industrialists face a competitiveness problem. Gültepe, stating that financial costs in Turkey are very high, said, “Where 50 percent interest is discussed, exporters can benefit from Eximbank with 37 percent, but it remains high where the exchange rate stays fixed.”
In the meeting where ideas were exchanged to support the sector’s development and find solutions to its problems, it was emphasized that sustainable inter-institutional communication is vital for proposed solutions that can be implemented.
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