President Tatar addresses “American Turkish Business World Gathering”

President Ersin Tatar attended the “American Turkish Business World Gathering” hosted by Anatolian Businessman Association USA (ASKON) at Chart House in New York.

The event, which brought together hundreds of American and Turkish business leaders, was also attended by the Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat, the Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır and the Minister of Finance Mehmet Şimşek, of the Republic of Türkiye.

Addressing the business gathering, President Tatar said that he was “very happy to be with you today”, adding that “having listened to the ministers who spoke before me, I see with great pride that Türkiye is in safe hands and will continue economic growth, following the negative effects of the pandemic, the devastating earthquakes and the conflicts in other countries that caused issues in the food chain”.

“As an economist, I can say, that it is indeed important to be able to predict the direction of the economy through statistical data, to attract investment and business, and to increase productivity and promote healthy competition,” President Tatar.

Noting the importance in competing business and trade with other countries of the world, President Tatar stated that Türkiye is a “regional power” that had spearheaded international efforts in tackling the food crisis that ensued following the start of the Ukraine-Russia war.

President Tatar added that, during the address of President Erdoğan, he had emphasised that federal-based negotiations have “completely lost its validity”.

“As you will recall, federal-based negotiations have been held in Cyprus for more than half-a-century,” President Tatar said. “Despite the arduous efforts of the Turkish Cypriot Side, and their support for a UN settlement plan in the separately held simultaneous referenda in April 2004, it was the Greek Cypriot People who rejected the federal solution.  Last and final negotiations on the exhausted basis again ended with failure in Crans-Montana in July 2017.  All of these have shown that it is the Greek Cypriot Side that refuses to share power and prosperity with the Turkish Cypriot People on the basis of equality,” President Tatar said.

Negotiations on the federal basis have failed to produce a settlement. This is why we say that it is necessary to think outside the federal box and to look towards a realistic and sustainable settlement that is based on good neighbourly relations and a cooperative relationship of the two States in Cyprus, and to look ahead to a sustainable future.”