MÜSİAD GÜMÜŞHANE OPENING PROGRAM

14 July 2021

Honourable Governor,

Honourable Mayor,

Honourable Rector,

Honourable Chief of Police,

Honourable District Mayors,

Honourable Mufti

Distinguished Presidents and Representatives of the Gümüşhane Business and Political World, of the Chambers and of the NGOs,

Distinguished Members of the MÜSİAD Board of Directors,

My Branch Presidents Coming from Neighbouring Provinces,

Esteemed President and Members of our Gümüşhane Branch,

Esteemed Guests

Esteemed Members of the Press,

We are together on the occasion of the opening of our Gümüşhane branch; I respectfully greet you all, welcome, you have honoured us with your presence.

Distinguished Guests, Esteemed Friends,

2020 was a year in which the pandemic was the main agenda. The whole world was shaken economically and socially. Türkiye too was of course affected, but after the first shock it traced a successful recovery curve. We are continuing our recovery process successfully.

In this process, we as business people must focus on new investments and on increasing our trade potential.

We believe that our organizational network, which we have expanded with great care as MÜSİAD, and the strong trade network and commercial relations that our branches and representative offices have established in their regions have a large share at the point of being able to reach this goal.

With the wish that the branch whose opening we are carrying out here today will also be engaged in productive work that will contribute to its region and to our country, I hope that it brings good things to our country.

Dear Friends,

In a short while I shall hand over my duty as President of MÜSİAD. My greatest wish is that I have not betrayed the trust of you, our esteemed members and friends.

Throughout my term of office I worked to keep my finger on the pulse of the business world and of the field.

Contact with our members, consultation and fellowship with them, the frequent hosting of the Anatolian branches at the Head Office and thus the raising to the highest level of the closeness between the centre and the FIELD have been my fundamental goal.

I believe that our colleagues who will take over the duty and continue this marathon will show every effort to carry our MÜSİAD much further forward than we have.

On this occasion, I ask you to forgive me for any of your rights that I may have left unfulfilled.

As I complete my speech with these sentiments, I wish our branch well and wish success to our branch president and to his board of directors.

I thank everyone who contributed to this organization and greet you with respect and affection.

Abdurrahman KAAN

President of MÜSİAD