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B20 Regional Consultation
Meeting was held in Baku as
a part of Turkey’s G20 Term
Presidency. Presiding over the
inter-governmental economic
cooperation platform known as
G20’s business arm, the B20, is the
Union of Chambers and Commodity
Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB). Under
TOBB’s presidency, it was decided
that the B20 Regional Consultation
Meeting would be held in Baku with
the attendances of the Azerbaijan
Entrepreneurs’ Organization
National Confederation (ASK),
Economic Cooperation Organization
(ECO), the Black Sea Economic
Cooperation (BSEC) and Turkic
Council.
Held on May 12th, 2015, the
B20 Regional Consultation Meeting,
B20 Turkey and TOBB President M.
Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and the State
Oil Company of the Azerbaijan
Republic (SOCAR) President Rövnak
Abdüllayev signed a strategic
cooperation protocol between B20
and SOCAR.
Customs tax free entry
into the US market
BM Large Data Analysis
Laboratory which will
focus on analyzing social
media data to contribute
to economic development,
which will conduct in-
depth research and train
the work force of the future
has been opened at the
Union of Chambers and
Commodity Exchanges
of Turkey University of
Economics and Technology
(TOBB ETU). Attending
the opening of the IBM
Large Data Analysis
Laboratory were TOBB
ETU School of Engineering
Assistant Dean Prof. Dr.
Murat Alanyalı, IBM Turk
General Director Isabel
Gomez Cagigas, IBM Turk
Üniversity Relations Chief
Jale Akyel, Project Manager
TOBB ETÜ Computer
Engineering Department
Head Ass. Dr. Erdoğan
Doğdu.
Speaking at the opening
of the laboratory, IBM Turk
General Director Isabel
Gomez Cagigas stated that
everything is related to
analytics and that students
need better education in
this field.
TOBB ETÜ and IBM
together for data analytics
With the reimplementation of the
Generalized System of Preferences Program
(GSP) customs tax free entry into the
US markets has been opened for various
Turkish goods.
US President Barack Obama has
signed the legislation which extended GSP
program to December 31st, 2017, on June
29th, 2015 which ended on July 31st,
2013. The program has been retroactively
reinstated. Those who paid customs taxes
between July 31st, 2013 and June 29th,
2015 are eligible for refunds from the US
Customs and Border Protection.
B20 and SOCAR
sign cooperation protocol