2nd International Investment Networking-Turkish States Programme Was Held
Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD) organised an International Investment and Networking Meeting under MÜSİAD INVEST, which brings international investors together with the investment environment in Turkey. More than 300 businessmen participated in the Turkish Republic's themed programme.
The Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD) organised the second major meeting of investment opportunities, which will lead and guide new foreign investments with the formation of MÜSİAD INVEST, with the theme of the Turkish Republics. The programme, which was held with the participation of Mahmut Asmalı, President of MUSIAD, Şerzad Abdunnazarov, Consul General of Uzbekistan in Istanbul, Serhat Kısakürek, President of MUSIAD INVEST, Furkan Karakaya, Vice President of the Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, and Khayrulla Sattarov, Executive Director of the Youth Our Future Foundation, continued with opening speeches. In the programme attended by more than 300 businessmen, MÜSİAD INVEST's investment instruments and its network were introduced. B2B meetings were held between the delegations of the countries participating in the programme and business people from MÜSİAD.
In his opening speech, Mahmut Asmalı, President of MÜSİAD, talked about MÜSİAD's prioritised goals with the MÜSİAD INVEST brand and said: ‘We aim to enrich the investment environment in Turkey with INVEST, which is an output of MÜSİAD's global experience.’
A qualified trade network is being established
In his speech, Mahmut Asmalı, President of MÜSİAD, stated that thanks to MÜSİAD INVEST, a qualified international trade network has been formed and that they aim to contribute to Turkey's investment climate with this network.
Asmalı mentioned the following in his speech:
‘Thanks to MÜSİAD INVEST, it will be possible to benefit from MÜSİAD's vast experience in many different sectors and fields not only in our country but also in many regions of the world. In our offices, you will be able to benefit from various services such as consultancy on financial issues such as company establishment, tax and accounting, auditing, as well as mergers and acquisitions, and consultancy on legal issues related to new laws and regulations. In addition, sectoral consultancy services such as sectoral market research, investment consultancy, EIA, investment incentives for the manufacturing industry, agriculture, energy, and real estate sectors and service sectors such as health and tourism will also be provided here. In addition to these, it will be possible to receive corporate services such as virtual office, trademark and patent, human resources, training, customs and logistics, IT, promotion, insurance, fair organisation, tourism, translation and interpretation with MÜSİAD INVEST.’
President Asmalı also summarised the programme that they united under the theme of Turkic Republics and continued his words as follows:
‘Turkey is located in the centre of the global trade network, as well as on the transit route of many commercial routes. While the foreign trade volume of our country is increasing day by day, the trade we carry out with the Turkic Republics in particular is increasing significantly every year.
We find it very important for business people from the Turkic Republics to walk the road with us to strengthen our commercial ties by utilising MÜSİAD's corporate memory. For this reason, we will continue to organise MÜSİAD INVEST International Investment Networking Meetings in the coming periods to bring international investors with investment potential together with MÜSİAD members, and we hope to continue to receive very positive feedback from these meetings.’
MÜSİAD INVEST has succeeded in becoming a reliable intermediary
In his speech, Serhat Kısakürek, President of MÜSİAD INVEST, stated that MÜSİAD INVEST has succeeded in becoming a reliable intermediary and emphasised that their main goal is to contribute to Turkey's investment climate. In his speech, Kısakürek said:
‘With its dynamic and robust economy, Turkey offers investor-friendly policies and a large pool of talent as well as access to global markets to attract international direct investments. With Turkey's geostrategic location, production capability, young and dynamic population and advanced logistics infrastructure, it has become a regional powerhouse where the production activities of multinational companies are supported by R&D centres, design teams, purchasing offices, logistics bases and regional management centres. In this direction, as MÜSİAD INVEST, we continue our activities without interruption to contribute to this climate of Turkey.’
Speaking about the activities and working areas of MÜSİAD INVEST, Kısakürek continued his words as follows:
‘So far, we have categorised all our member companies and distributed them according to the sectors and volumes demanded by investors. We have put forward MÜSİAD INVEST's focal point and strategic activity plan. We have worked in-depth on this. At this point, we started our activities by forming our executive board. We have created our website to establish a sustainable structure in line with our goals. We have developed solutions to ensure fast matching with the Apply to Become an Investor and Apply for Your Investment Search system on our website.
In line with our objectives, we started to organise regional investment meetings and organised the first one in the MENA region. We have established and continue to establish international collaborations to increase our investor potential. We made great strides by participating in COP'28. We were the only observer NGO participating in the General Assembly of IRENA. Today, we are hosting investors from the Turkic Republics in our second regional investment meeting. As the main goal in these regional meetings, we adopt the principle of less protocol-oriented business.
Within the scope of these meetings, we aim to bring together our investment-seeking and investor companies according to their sectors.’
Organisation of Turkic States continues to play an active role
Furkan Karakaya, Vice President of the Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, gave information about the establishment and process of the Organisation of Turkic States in his speech. Karakaya said in his speech:
‘Turkey has always attached importance to cooperation with friendly and brotherly countries that speak a common language and have the same origin. Our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has always sensitively represented this importance that our country has forgiven. In this direction, with the Nakhchivan Agreement signed on 3 October 2009 with the initiatives of our President, the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking Countries was established with its headquarters in Istanbul. As you know, this development subsequently evolved into the Organisation of Turkic States. In a short time, the organisation has completed its institutionalisation and the commissions established within it have become active. As a result of these efforts, summits have been organised every year in different countries of the Turkic world with different themes. In addition to social and cultural ties, the issue of strengthening economic ties, improving the investment environment and increasing cooperation between member countries was also addressed as a separate item and continued to play an active role. In this direction, as the Organisation of Turkic States and the Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, we would like to share the good news that the Turkic World Business and Investment Forum is planned and preparatory work is being carried out in the coming months. We will continue to continue our work under the leadership of our President and within the framework of the vision of the Turkish Century put forward by him.’
MÜSİAD INVEST expands its areas of cooperation
Within the scope of the MÜSİAD INVEST International Investment and Networking Meeting, a cooperation protocol was signed between Fonangels.com and MÜSİAD INVEST. In the cooperation to be evaluated within the scope of MÜSİAD INVEST's activities, joint studies will be carried out with fonangels.com. Speaking at the signing ceremony of the protocol, Serhat Kısakürek, President of MÜSİAD INVEST, expressed his joy at the growth of MÜSİAD INVEST's cooperation areas.
In the programme attended by a big delegation from Uzbekistan, B2B meetings were held after the opening speeches. More than 300 business people participated in the B2B meetings, where it is foreseen to invest in companies with entrepreneurship and investment opportunities in Turkey and to develop cooperation opportunities.
