Business Association

A fresh report by TÜS?AD, a leadaing business group, points at current risks of the economy, which are not highlighted in many official reportsThe Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜS?AD) has been the leading interlocutor of global economic players, although the association has lost some power during the Justice and Development Party (AKP) term. TÜS?AD is less powerful vis-à-vis gover

Turkey's top business organization has underlined the overriding need for social peace, calling on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to abandon arms amid a return to peace talks.

Turkey's top business organization has urged the country's new cabinet to address and solve the problems plaguing judicial independence and media freedom immediately with a series of "required reforms," adding normalization was "crucial." 

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.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again reacted to Turkey’s top business organization’s chairman’s words that their addressee was the prime minister and not the president, saying he would not attend TÜSİAD’S meetings anymore.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s meetings on Sept. 9 displayed commitment to his pledge to act as a “running, sweating president,” as he met with influential groups from a wide section of Turkish society.

All projections indicate that Turkey’s economy would eventually be harmed due to the eventual integration of the world’s two largest economies through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the head of Turkey’s leading business club has warned.

The Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) has started discussions on its next chairman following Muharrem Yılmaz’s surprise June 4 resignation from the organization amid a labor crisis in his own company.

Haluk Dinçer, the vice chairman of TÜSİAD, June 5 rejected rumors that he would replace Yılmaz.

The chairman of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Muharrem Yılmaz, surprisingly submitted his resignation June 4 over a labor crisis in his own company. He was elected as TÜSİAD chairman during the business association’s 43rd general congress on Jan. 13, 2013.