Mehmet Şahin, the President of the Board of Directors, attended the Meeting of the Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak with Mardin Business World. Mehmet Şahin, the President of the Board of Directors of the Kızıltepe Commodity Exchange, had the opportunity to communicate one-on-one to the Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak about the recently-introduced regulation for flour exports as well as the issues of our Industrialists operating in the field of Flour Production in our Mardin Region.
President Şahin also added that our Mardin Province should be available to the GAP irrigation canals project immediately, and the current import of flour based on imported wheat should be eliminated before the July (harvest period), parallel to this, the release of the flour export from the domestic wheat which consequent that our farmers experience the agricultural irrigation cost. Due to the fact that it is not possible for our farmer to give up on corn, only 5% drip irrigation support premium is given. Since the rest of the other 95% is made with various other irrigation, the deprivation of the support premium causes informality, as well as the government’s loss of income. He stressed the importance of giving support premium to all kinds of Corn Harvesting (Production) by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and generalizing the support.
Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak met with the business world in Mardin after Gaziantep. Mardin Albayrak, who made a statement at the Meeting with Businesspeople Program, saying that Turkey has a strong focus on re-growth; “We aim to close this year with a growth of over 5 percent level, I hope. I hope we will put Turkey in a historic performance.” said. Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said they grew Turkey with a model based on employment, exports and value-added production based. In his speech at the ‘Meeting with the Mardin Business World’ held at the Mardin Atatürk Cultural Center, Albayrak said that the region got peace as the state and the nation embraced and the terrorist organization was not existent. Starting in August of 2018 and reminiscent of speculative attacks which continued in 2019 Albayrak said “they want to bring Turkey down economically. In the time we live, we experienced attacks to repel the citizens welfare as to eliminate the fragility of our economies and the last 18 years, income, to improve wealth which we fought for”.
THE VIEW ON TURKEY’S ECONOMY HAS CHANGED AS POSITIVE: Albayrak reminded that some groups try to imprison the government’s 'one-digit inflation exchange rate' into the devil's triangle, some others also try to bring down the nation's self-confidence, by seeking to dominate a crises air in markets, said “18 years of AK Party policies’ main feature was 'self-confidence'. We have always trusted our country, nation and institutions in our struggle in the economy for 1.5 years. I want everyone to see where we came from with the struggle in the economy in the last 1.5 years. You can see how we have succeeded in inflation, interest, exchange rate and market costs. With the strong coordination and the right policies that we have put forward in the most difficult period, we have achieved improvements that nobody has given probability. Here, consequently, the world's leading, reputable financial institutions, mainly, everyone's attitude towards Turkey's economy has changed as positive in all segments".
Emphasizing that the steps taken in the fight against interest and inflation in the economy yielded fruit, Albayrak continued his words as follows: "We focused on strong growth again. Our target in growth is to provide a model based on more exports, employment and value-added production. we prioritize our industry. we say 2020 will be the year the real sector. Nobody worries for Turkey, employment, exports, and we grew up with a model based on value-added production. that's our model, ideal as we named it as ‘change’. Financial system, economic the model are changing”. Minister Berat Albayrak underlined the changes had taken place in Turkey's case at a time when 500 years of ecosystem had changed, said: “This will create awareness to redirect resources in accordance with this model and we engage our business in line with this objective”.
WE HAVE COME AT YOUR DOOR: Highlighting the story of such an unexpected performance after all the attacks of the previous year, Albayrak said “We will reflect every positive step in the economy, the improvement to the business world, our businessmen and our citizens step by step. We are not going through an easy process. All the demands related to these; we have reached you city by city. We will take the projects from their own locations and sources.” he spoke. Reminding that they do not leave the demands of the business world, markets and citizens unrequited, he added: “After the decreases in costs, the standards and fees by the banks and the costs were lowered. With the arrangement as you know the details very closely, a resource of approximately 30 billion lira will remain in the pocket of our businessmen and our citizens. We will continue to relax our business world, grow our country, and carry the peace and stability of our nation even further with every step we take”.
WE SHARE THE GOOD NEWS IN ANTEP: "Here we share the good news in Antep today. We continue our IVME financing package, which our industrialists show great favor, with two options with TLREF index and fixed interest rates”" "Our business people will be able to use this financing either with a fixed 8.5 percent interest rate, 7-year term, up to 7 years, TLREF plus 1.5 percent interest rate, or 12-year term TLREF plus 2 percent interest rate. In our Focused Financing Program, we also reduced the interest rates by 1 to 1.5 points in ISTOD”.
Mardin Governor Mustafa Yaman as well as the executives of some banks and many businessmen participated in the program.
