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EKONOMİK
FORUM
Importance must be given to
innovation and efficiency
E
xecutives of leading companies in
the World came together in the 9th
Meeting of Investment Advisory Council of
Turkey. TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğ-
lu attended to the meeting that was held
under the chairmanship of Prime Minister
Binali Yıldırım in Dolmabahçe Office of Pri-
me Ministry in Istanbul, with the purposes
of receiving opinions and comments of
international business world. Prime Minis-
ter Binali Yıldırım made a speech during
the meeting and the confidence in Turkey
was underlined in the final declaration.
The continuation of the reforms aimed at
improvement of investment environment
fromTurkey was requested and the neces-
sity of giving priority to the innovation and
efficiency was stated in the declaration.
P
resident of the Union of Chambers
and Commodity Exchanges, Mr. M
Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu responded to the qu-
estions of journalists after the “TOBB-Gulf
Cooperation Council 2nd Business and
Investment Forum”organised in Manama,
the capital of Bahrain. Hisarcıklıoğlu, who
stated that the Turkish economy is much
stronger than the estimations, highligh-
ted that there had been no decay in the
public finance despite two elections be-
ing held in the last 1,5 years and the fact
that there had been a fight against PKK
and DAESH on one hand and attempted
coup d’état on the other. President of
TOBB, Hisarcıklıoğlu, stated that an agre-
ement had been made with Denizbank
for the provision of loan facilities to the
SMEs with an interest rate of less than 10
% annually, and gave the good news that
talks had been continuing with some
banks and that the commercial loan rates
that are up to 18 per cent annually will
decrease down to 9,90 per cent.
News of low
interest loan to
SMEs from TOBB