Meeting with NGOs
On November 7, 2023, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş, and the AK Party Member of Parliament from Ordu, Prof. Dr. Mahmut Özer, met with representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in our city. The meeting, which was attended by the President of the Ordu Commodity Exchange, Mr. Ziver Kahraman, among other guests, included discussions on the national and global agenda.
During the meeting, President Kahraman, who had the floor, stated:
“The growth and development story of our country, which has embraced a free-market economy, will be through the hands of the ‘private sector.’ The private sector, in a competitive environment, creates an atmosphere of entrepreneurship with productivity, quality, and profit maximization, while it is the responsibility of the state to ‘improve the investment environment.’ The most crucial item in improving the investment environment is ‘infrastructure.’ Among the infrastructure instruments, ‘transportation channels’ take precedence. The rapid, secure, and cost-effective transportation of raw materials or semi-finished products to the market and the elimination of infrastructure deficiencies in a manner suitable for the current conditions and technology imply that capital will invest in these regions.
The reason for our preamble being this long is to draw attention to the ‘Samsun-Sarp Railway’ and the ‘port.’ In our east, there are tremendous markets such as the Caucasus and Russia to the north, and we have potentials with products in which we have an advantage in production. Turning the richness of the existing and potential into wealth is possible through market supply. Market supply is possible through private sector initiatives, based on competitive investments, and policies to improve the investment environment are necessary for investment.
Samsun-Sarp Railway
Port
These are very important and meaningful for us. The will that built the Black Sea Coastal Road and the Ordu-Giresun Airport will not remain indifferent to our request.
The growth, development, and reversal of our city and region’s ill fortune are possible by eliminating the necessary public infrastructure deficiencies. One of the factors negatively affecting the economy, investment, production, and trade is the ‘access to finance problem.’ We have expressed this issue several times on various platforms and continue to do so. Investment, production, and trade require ‘capital.’ Loans are the oldest, safest, most stable, and widespread source of capital. Due to both their conditions and the difficulties in access, our entrepreneurs are experiencing problems in accessing capital.
All world economies are going through a challenging period economically. Caution is undoubtedly required due to uncertainties such as the war between our northern neighbors Russia and Ukraine and the spread of Israeli terrorism in Gaza to the entire region. Taking into account all these political, social, and economic conditions, the Turkish private sector expects a solution to the issue of access to finance from our government.”
