Incentive Information Meeting Held

The Ministry of Industry and Technology and the Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized an information meeting on investment incentive measures specific to investments in the provinces affected by the earthquake.

Delivering the opening speech of the meeting, Elazığ CCI Chairman of the Board of Directors İdris Alan said: At the Turkish Economic Council held in Ankara under the hosting of our Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye, we conveyed our demands to our Vice President Mr Cevdet Yılmaz and to all our ministers who attended. We requested facilitation on many headings, ranging from requesting a special fund from public revenues for the earthquake region to tax exemptions. Most importantly, I requested a meeting specifically for the presidents of chambers and commodity exchanges in the earthquake region, to be attended by our Vice President and our Ministers as well. Because this disaster experienced by 11 provinces is not something that can be overcome in a short time. Today, precisely on this subject, our officials from our Ministry of Industry and Technology will provide information on investment incentive measures specific to our 11 provinces.

President Alan said: “At the Economic Council, our R&D team, to whom we are grateful, prepared a report on the problems of our province. Of course, since we had a speaking time of 3 minutes, we mentioned the main headings of our problems. As Elazığ, we experienced a destructive earthquake in 2020. We experienced the pandemic. We experienced the 6 February earthquakes. My members have very serious difficulties. There, by presenting our file to our Vice President Mr Cevdet Yılmaz, we requested a special meeting at which we would discuss the problems of the 11 Provinces. I think this request of ours for a meeting will also be accepted. Our Vice President Mr Cevdet Yılmaz is a person of our region, a person of our locality, a person who knows the issues and problems.” Afterwards, Mehmet Dündar, Head of Department at the Directorate General of Incentive Implementation and Foreign Investment of the Ministry of Industry and Technology, provided information to the participants on investment incentive measures.