8TH YEAR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Chairman of TİM, İsmail Gülle, Answered the Questions About Many Issues and Evaluated the Current State of Turkish Economy
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YOUR COMPLIMENTARY COPY 8TH YEAR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Chairman of TİM, İsmail Gülle, answered the questions about many issues and evaluated the current state of Turkish economy. SEPTEMBER 2018 ISSUE 62 ECONOMY BUSINESS FOREIGN TRADE ANALYSIS Innovation Focused Mentorship Program How Who How will Which will the will be the supports will Process run? mentor? chosen? be given? 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Move CONTACT T. +90 212 216 19 48 [email protected] [email protected] www.medyatr.com.tr Turkey has long been a country shaken by chronic From the foreign-dependent banks in the late Ottoman Era economic and fnancial crises (1959, 1969, the 1970s, to the national banks of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish 1994, 2000-2001), but it has risen, in the last decade, banking system improved itself with structural to rank 17th among global economic powers. changes and resisted roughest financial crisis. Neither text nor photographs from this publication may be reproDuced in full or part without acknowleDging the source and securing prior permission from the publisher. AUGUST 2018 ISSUE 61 The Turkish Perspective 3 Editorial İSMAİL GÜLLE CHAIRMAN (TİM) FOCUSING ON EXPORTS IS CRUCIAL FOR PARRYING THIS TURMOIL We are all witnessing the pressure on Turkey and our currency in the international markets. Both fnancially and politically Turkey is facing diffcult times for the last couple of weeks. SPECIALLY THE HIT ON TURKISH and create and unstable environment trap, is increasing our export value. ELIRA on 8th of August caused a in the market to freeze the business Turkey’s fnancial structure and huge volatility on Turkish Lira resulting operations. If we stop making new banking sector is far better than many almost a 30% fall out. investments or shrink our production, countries in the world. However we Regarding to the large corporate our economy will suffer a worse need to produce value added products debt payments for the incoming recession. Therefore the measures to increase our value per unit and to months of Turkish private sector, the taken by our ministries and other lower our trade defcit. Our capacity hit on Turkish Lira suffers the frms for public institutions, resulted positively utilization has reached %79 on average making new investments. Therefore our with stabilizing Dollar – Lira parity in 2017. This means it is too hard for us Banking Regulation and Supervision on 6 Liras average. It is important to step forward in international trade Agency relieved the sudden pressure on protect stability of our local currency with the same old production strategy. lira with putting restrictions on dollar- to continue our trade relations while Therefore we need to transform our lira swaps actions to make it harder to to continue with new investments on production on value added products. bet against Turkish Lira. value added products. As TIM we will continue to support the Within the following week, as the In every platform, I underline that projects on R&D, design, education and administrative board of TİM, we also the only way out of middle-income branding. decided to allocate our reserve funds to Turkish Eximbank for the use of exporters not to face the risk of being in a hard situation regarding to the volatility in Turkish Lira. Moreover, Ministry of Finance announced that Turkish Banks will continue to provide commercial credits to the companies who suffer the speculative boost of US dollars against Lira. Also Ministry of Technology and Industry announced, they will continue to support the investments on R&D and Design projects of SME’s. As an addition, they will also support the investments which directly related to exports. These policy actions relieved the market and lowered USD from its peak level. This kind of speculative attacks supposed to depreciate the value of Lira The Turkish Perspective 5 Content: Investment Drive to Continue P05 Great Increase in Steel Export P06 Production Facility in Turkey by Bosch P07 Boosting Renewable Power Generation P08 Tailor-made Strategies from Turkey P09 Super Incentive for TF-X Project P10 Editor: Ramazan Güzyurdu First DEFENSE, EXPORT, ENERGY, BUSINESS, ECONOMY, TOURISM, EXPORT, AUTOMOTIVE, TECHNOLOGY... President Recep Tayyip TURKEY Erdoğan unveiled the 100-day action plan at an event at the Beştepe Erdoğan’s frst 100-day plan: People’s Culture and INVESTMENT DRIVE TO CONTINUE Convention Center. The action plan for the frst 100 days of the new Cabinet includes 400 projects to be accomplished with a budget of TL 46 billion in diverse sectors including energy, tourism, fnance, transportation and agriculture.