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TOBB President M. Rifat
Hisarcıklıoğlu stating that they would
be providing support for the families of
the miners who lost their lives during
the incident at the mine in Ermenek on
October 28, 2014, “As the TOBB Board
of Directors we have decided to provide
the families with houses.”
Reporting that a commission
formed by TOBB will decide on which
relative the houses will be registered
to, Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that 17 of the
houses will be built in Ermenek and 1
in Zonguldak.
Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that they
put great importance on social
responsibility, “In twelve years our aid
and investments in regards to natural
disasters, education, food and culture
have reached 500 million TRY.”
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supporting the families of the miners who
lost their lives during the incident in Ermenek
Turkey, having assumed the Presidency
of the G20 term presidency, held its first
B20 Summit on December 15, 2014,
with the participation of Deputy Prime
Minister Ali Babacan in Istanbul. Giving
the opening speech of the summit held
with approximately 500 representatives
and hundreds of business people from
37 countries, B20 Turkey Executive
Chairman and the Union of Chambers and
Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)
President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu made the
announcement of the Turkish business
community Task Force team.
Noting that the global economy has
been undergoing a peculiar period over
the last six years, Hisarcıklıoğlu quoted
Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” in
regards to the present state of affairs:
“It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness, it was
the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of
incredulity, it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness, it was
the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair, we had everything before us, we
had nothing before us.”
Emphasizing that paradigms relating
to economy and finance are changing,
Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “Robust growth is
difficult to maintain globally. Having
fixed one part, we encounter deficiencies
surface in another. A person sneezes
10,000 kilometers to our west and a
country 10,000 kilometers to our east
falls ill. We are talking about days where
an overabundance of capital can no longer
be found and monetary tightening will be
faced. Yet, none of us can quite pinpoint
what the effects will be.
We can only bring the global economy
to an inclusive and robust growth path
together. Global problems require global
solutions. That is what makes G20 so very
important. That is why the main goal of
Turkey’s G20 Chair Term is ‘Inclusive and
Robust Growth’.”
Future of the global economy:
Inclusive and Robust Growth