Turkish Industry

The executive board chairman of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Erol Bilecik, has drawn attention to slackness in Turkey's STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) system. "We expect that in 2013, employment will reach up to 34 million and 3.5 million of this will be STEM employments.

Turkey's largest business organization has called on all stakeholders to achieve sustainable development goals in line with the United Nations' 2030 agenda. 

Turkish police have detained four senior executives of Boydak Holding over allegations of financing the group of U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, a former government ally now considered the head of the "Fethullahist Terror Organization" (FETÖ). 

Memduh Boydak, the general manager of Boydak Holding, was released Sept. 17 along with two businessmen following their detention as a part of an operation targeting a purported terrorist organization on Sept. 16.