US EximBank President Fred P. Hochberg visited TUSKON on July 23, 2010. TUSKON President Rizanur Meral and Vice President Ahmet Ciger together with board members welcomed Mr. Hochberg. During dinner, the delegation and TUSKON board discussed the opportunities in both markets and ways to cooperate and increase the trade and investment volume between our count... continue »

TUSKON President Rizanur Meral, and Secretary General Dr. Mustafa Gunay visited Washington DC on April 6-8, 2010. Delegation met with think tank scholars, government officials and business leaders. TUSKON President also paid a good will visit to the newly appointed Turkish Ambassador Namik Tan. Turkey may not be able to come through as a global economic lead... continue »

Former American Turkish Council Chairman Brent Scowcroft and New ATC Chairman Richard Armitage together with ATC board members visited TUSKON on November 18, 2009. TUSKON has a long lasting partnership with ATC and is also board member. TUSKON President Rizanur Meral emphasizd the importance of mutually beneficial partnership and he said TUSKON is committed ... continue »

US Senators from Pennsylvania and New Jersey visited TUSKON Headquarters on May 28, 2009 and they had dinner with TUSKON members. Senator Bob Casey and Senator Frank Lautenberg emphasized the importance of recent President Obama's and Secretary Clinton's Turkey visits and they said they would like to follow up to evaluate the areas of cooperation between US ... continue »

TUSKON US Executive Director Hakan Tasci and Turkey's Agricultural Counselor Mehmet Cagil visited Secretary of Agriculture of Pennsylvania Dennis Wolff on March 13, 2009. They discussed the possible cooperation between their State and Turkey and TUSKON may be a conduit for this exchange. Also, he is invited to attend Turkey World Trade Bridge program TUSKON ... continue »

TUSKON President Rizanur Meral, Vice President Ahmet Ciger and Secretary General Mustafa Gunay visited Washington, DC on March 9-11, 2009. Mr.Meral adressed a distinguished group of researchers at Wilson Center on March 10, 2009. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of US-Turkish Relations and touched upon the recent developments in Turkish Economy an... continue »

On July 28, 2008 Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry and his wife Kim Henry
visited TUSKON Headquarters in Istanbul. TUSKON President Rizanur Meral welcomed the delegation at TUSKON Headquarters together with board members. Governor Henry discussed the potentials of the Oklahoma for Turkish businessmen and he invited TUSKON delegation to Oklahoma. He and his ... continue »

Minister of State for Foreign Trade Kürşad Tüzmen attended the Official Opening Ceremony of Kennesaw State University's Year of Turkey on October 8, 2008. Other guests at the ceremony were Turkish Honorary Consul in Atlanta Mona Diamond, President of the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON) Rızanur Meral, Republican Congressman fr... continue »

TUSKON US held an orientation program for the Congressional Staff who will be participating to TUSKON US's Turkey Trip between March 22 and March 29, 2008. In the orientation program, Paul Malik from the State Department, Tuncay Babali, Suleyman Gokce, Murat Karagoz from the Turkish embassy and Hakan Tasci, Executive director of TUSKON US informed participan... continue »

President Gul is going to visit Tanzania just after President Bush's trip to country. This is the first Presidential visit to Tanzania from Turkiye. President Gul's trip will take place on Feb 26-28, 2008 and 150 TUSKON Member businessmen will accompany President Gul during this trip. After Tanzania, the delegation is planning to visit a couple more new gene... continue »

TUSKON US had chance to meet with President Bill Clinton and briefed him about the organization. In recent years, Turkish economy is booming with 7 percent annual growth. The exports of Turkey exceeded 100 billion dollars and the import is around 125 billion dollars. When you look at the US exports and imports, they are 1.14 trillion dollars and 1.98 trillio... continue »

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the co-chairman of the Greens group in the European Parliament, said Turkey needed to win the hearts and minds of Europe in order to be successful in its membership bid.
One of the first steps Turkey needed to take was to implement full democracy, Cohn-Bendit said during a dinner at the headquarters of the Turkish Businessmen’s and I... continue »

Welcoming Remarks:
Rızanur MERAL
President of TUSKON

Keynote Speaker:
H.E. Mehmet ŞİMŞEK
Minister of State in Charge of Undersecretariat of Treasury, TÜRKİYE

Theme:
A Rising Star in the Global Market: The Turkish Economy
Date :
October 19th 2007, Friday
Time :
8:30 a.m... continue »

On September 17th 2007, TUSKON US delegation Mr. Beyhan Nakiboglu and Mr. Hakan Taşçı visited Ambassador of Turkey to the US to share the mission and vision of the new office of Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Türkiye (TUSKON) in Washington DC. His Excellency, Nabi Şensoy stated two main objectives in his mind when he first appointed to th... continue »