YOUR COMPLIMENTARY COPY BRIEFING Exporters make the scene in China INDEPTH Record Breaking Participation at Design Week Turkey BRANDS Production Power of Artepera, Experience of Three Generations DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE 77 ECONOMY BUSINESS FOREIGN TRADE ANALYSIS DIGITALIZATION DYNAMICS OF TURKEY: EXCLUSIVITY TO CENTRALITY TURKEY, BEING A PRIVILEGED COUNTRY OF THE CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC PERIOD WITH ITS GEOPOLITICAL POSITION AND EXTENSIVE WORKFORCE UP TO THE PRESENT, WANTS TO CARRY THIS SPECIALTY TO THE NEW AGE. FURTHERMORE, THIS TIME THE TARGET IS TO BE THE PREDOMINANT COUNTRY. The Turkish Perspective 1 24 COVER DIGITALIZATION DYNAMICS OF TURKEY: Contents EXCLUSIVITY TO 05 FIRST 05 | Turkey, Qatar Ink Seven Agreements to Boost Ties CENTRALITY 06 | Turkey, Japan Aim for Economic Partnership Deal by 2020 06 | OECD Lifts Growth Forecasts for Turkey TURKEY, BEING A PRIVILEGED COUNTRY OF 07 | Turkey and Bangladesh THE CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC PERIOD WITH Should Form New ITS GEOPOLITICAL POSITION AND EXTENSIVE Cooperation Fields WORKFORCE UP TO THE PRESENT, WANTS TO 08 | Kyrgyzstan Gives Highest CARRY THIS SPECIALTY TO THE NEW AGE. Priority to Turkey FURTHERMORE, THIS TIME THE TARGET IS TO BE 08 | Auto Sales Increased More THE PREDOMINANT Than Two Times in October COUNTRY. 09 | Antalya Sets Its Tourist Record with 15 Million 11 BRIEFING 42 INDEPTH 51 BRANDS 11 | TURKISH EXPORTERS STAND 51 | METE MORDAG’S SIGNATURE OUT AMONG THEIR RIVALS 42 IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN While the leading countries have HE CREATES LIFE-AFFIRMING reduced their export since the RECORD BREAKING DRAWINGS beginning of 2019, Turkey has maintained its growth. Turkey’s PARTICIPATION AT 55 | PRODUCTION POWER OF export reached USD 16 billion 336 ARTEPERA, EXPERIENCE OF THREE million in October with 2,9 percent GENERATIONS: ASKON growth in eight months. ASKON’s last legacy, Artepera, 14 | EXPORTERS MAKE THE SCENE traces design aesthetics with metal design interpretations. IN CHINA WITH 61 THOUSAND Turkey Exporters Assembly held a PEOPLE 58 | PLANT POTS ARE SMART NOW national participation organization With its smart lighting and the to China International Import patent pending auto watering Expo (CIIE), which is the world’s system, Plantone is a solution for largest exhibition, for Turkish anyone to easily grow herbs and 18 | TURKISH CEOS BUCKLE 24 | WORLD’S BEST GOLFERS MEET flowers indoors. exporters to gain more shares in THEMSELVES TO TRANSFORMATION IN ANTALYA FOR THE TURKISH the Chinese market. According to KPMG CEO Survey, AIRLINES OPEN 16 | A FIRST IN HISTORY! 92 percent of Turkish CEOs said European Tour’s key tournament 58 MARMARAY CONNECTS CHINA they have led the transformation once again focused golf world’s AND EUROPE in their industry by changing attention on Belek, Antalya. Within the scope of ‘reviving the their business models, up from 44 26 | INVESTMENT OFFICE historical Silk Road’, a freight train percent last year. SHOWCASES ENTREPRENEURSHIP departing from China arrived in 20 | TURKEY IS CHOSEN AS THE Turkey after crossing Kazakhstan, ECOSYSTEM OF TURKEY BEST MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE IN BAHRAIN Azerbaijan and Georgia. DESTINATION 22 | TROY BRINGS ITS EXPERIENCE 61 AGENDA IN CARD PAYMENT SYSTEMS TO EUROPE FAIRS, EXHIBITIONS, SUMMITS, TROY’s success story gets recog- MEETINGS IN DECEMBER nized also in abroad as it becomes 63 FIGURES the first member of European Card Payments Association THE FIGURES OF TURKISH EXPORTS 14 outside Europe. 24 IN OCTOBER, 2019 2 Online MANAGEMENT theturkishperspective.com PUBLISHER ON BEHALF OF TURKISH Online EXPORTERS ASSEMBLY/ CHAIRMAN OF THE TURKISH EXPORTERS ASSEMBLY İSMAİL GÜLLE STRATEGIC PARTNER PRESIDENT OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY INVESTMENT OFFICE THE TURKISH PERSPECTIVE DIGITAL ARDA ERMUT The Turkish Perspective website is to be launched soon. MANAGER IN CHARGE PROF. DR. 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A.Ş. will now be more ORHANGAZI MAH. 1673 SOK. NO.34 ESENYURT- ISTANBUL / TURKEY interactive and responsive, T. +90 212 622 63 63 F. +90 212 605 07 98 as expected from [email protected] Turkey’s main voice for international audience. CONTACT T. +90 212 216 19 48 [email protected] [email protected] www.medyatr.com.tr 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. DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE 77 The Turkish Perspective 3 Editorial İSMAİL GÜLLE CHAIRMAN (TİM) MAY DESIGN WEEK TURKEY BE A PRESENT TO OUR GREAT BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY You cannot force an occupation such as design into people’s minds and heads. You need to create a climate for people to live in, breathe in. This is what has been achieved in Design Week Turkey. E LIVE IN A TRANSFORMATION The bottom current should have arrived, Wthat comes with global trends and the demand should have formed. in every aspect of our lives, from social You know, they say that it will come from life to production and export. Design is within. This week, Design Week Turkey one of the most important factors that experienced this breakdown. Real owners determines the quality of our lives in came and embraced their brand. You many aspects. cannot gather 61,000 people against their As exporters of Turkey, we present will. You cannot force an occupation such the future of our beautiful country a as design into people’s minds and heads. very meaningful and valuable brand. You need to create a climate for people to Design Week Turkey is a brand that live in, breathe in. This is what has been will grow in the hands of young people achieved in Design Week Turkey. who see themselves as citizens of the I congratulate all my colleagues who world, the designers who have crossed We are working hard to grow contributed. I thank all our visitors. I the boundaries in their minds, and out more designers from this congratulate everyone who participated those who strive to solve problems. The with their projects and presentations. investments in the Design Week Turkey land. We aim to transform I am grateful to the Ministry for their brand, the effort given, and the reason the next Design Week into open-ended support to our bureaucracy. spent were corresponded this year. a valuable global design We have done a job in accordance with Universities, R&D centers, companies brand by bringing together the nature of design and with the spirit and public institutions participated in all stakeholders of the design of time. May the Design Week Turkey Design Week Turkey with their designs. ecosystem. be good for our great beautiful country. The world’s most renowned designers, Now it will continue to grow in the hands design company managers and of young people with our support. We opinion leaders in this field made their We did what we liked the most. We always need new ideas. With each new presentations. Design is not a concept worked for the future. We have done a idea, we are taking another step towards bounded by the borders of countries. work that is integrated with the world the future. Growing more and more with You can not do your own design activity. and in accordance with the spirit of time. each passing year is a very good source Design is a concept between them We destroyed the walls in the minds of motivation for making Istanbul, one who are connected to each other over of young people and expanded their of the leading metropolises of the world, the internet. We have determined the perspectives. In fact, what we did was to a capital of design. In order to reach our program with this awareness. And more invest in Design Week Turkey to make it goal of Turkey having a foreign trade than 61 thousand people came to watch happen. We will continue this investment surplus, brand and design are a must. this event. Those young people, who with increasing strength, because now the We are working hard to grow out more we call our future, have laid the cement brand stands on its own feet. Designers designers from this land. We aim to bring of the future in front of our eyes for 4 who are the target of the brand came and Design Week Turkey together with all days. We worked there for 4 days as a received their fiduciary. stakeholders of the design ecosystem to supporter of the future owners, not as There are some situations in which you make Istanbul a valuable global design the owner. cannot manage with a top-down effect. brand next year. The Turkish Perspective 5 Content: Turkey, Japan Aim for Economic Partnership Deal by 2020 P06 OECD Lifts Growth Forecasts for Turkey P06 Turkey and Bangladesh Should Form New Cooperation Fields P07 Kyrgyzstan Gives Highest Priority to Turkey P08 Auto Sales Have More Than Doubled in October P08 Antalya Sets Its Tourist Record with 15 Million P09 Haluk Bilginer wins Emmy P09 First DIPLOMACY, STATISTIC, FOREIGN TRADE, OUTLOOK, INNOVATION, AUTOMOTIVE, DESIGN, TOURISM, AWARD..