Haluk Dinçer

Turkey must embrace the republic's principle of secularism in order to progress economically as well as socially and politically, Haluk Dinçer, the outgoing head of the country's top business organization TÜS?AD, has said, speaking at a meeting where his presidential term ends.

Turkey?s gross domestic product is expected to grow at around 3 percent in 2014. This growth rate is a ?modest high? when the current situation in the European markets, Turkey?s main trade partner, is considered, along with the surrounding geopolitical risks.

TÜS?AD?s outgoing leader, who is at odds with the government and the president over his recent remarks, stands behind his words, adding that the business group generates some 85 percent of taxes in Turkey Haluk Dinçer, the outgoing head of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜS?AD), has stressed that the leading business organization generates around 85 percent of the taxes i

One cannot say that Turkey?s prestigious Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜS?AD) has always been on good terms with the government.