Accompanied by Rıfat Hisarcıklıoğlu, the head of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), I recently visited Yassıada island where government members were tried following the military coup of 1960, as a result of which three ministers were sentenced to death including the prime minister.
As I was on my way to attend a publicity meeting for Altınbaş Holding chairman Vakkas Altınbaş’s book “Altın Yıllarım” (“My Golden Years” in English), I received a message from Yıldız Holding Chair Murat Ülker that read, “I am now on the Turkish Airlines Shanghai-Istanbul flight. I am reading daily Hürriyet on the plane.”
United States Consul General Jennifer L. Davis, who hosted the “Summer Meet” organized by the Turkish-American Business Council (TAİK), chaired by Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ at her residence in Istanbul’s Arnavutköy district welcomed her guests with this message: “It is an honor for us to encourage the strong economic ties between the U.S and Turkey.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has commented on his recent visit to London saying the message he gave was that Turkey remains an “investor-friendly country.”
Tat Gıda General Manager Arzu Aslan Kesimer, who received the “Boards Empowered by Women Award” at the “5th Independent Woman Directors Conference,” said there are three women, including herself, on the company’s board of directors.
The Japanese Mizuho Bank management, which led a $640 million syndication that 22 banks attended last August in London, proposed a different formula for Türk Eximbank CEO Adnan Yıldırım.
The General Director of Goldman Sachs Turkey Çağlayan Çetin came across two important offers in 2016. The first one was from Goldman Sachs.
Using his phone for some time, Transportation Maritime Affairs and Communications Ministry Undersecretary Suat Hayri Aka turned around and said to those sitting at the table, “I have just checked the documents that require my confirmation and have signed them with an electronic signature. I have sent the confirmation for the work to proceed without the need for an original signature.”
