Together, We Will Heal Our Wounds

Our country is under one of the greatest disasters of the current century, perhaps history

We are going through a very challenging and painful test as a result of two major earthquakes simultaneously affecting 11 provinces, centred in Kahramanmaraş.

Right after the earthquake, as DEİK, we opened a separate account under the coordination of our committee, established for the foreign stakeholders of our DEİK Business Councils, with the purpose of being able to carry out the elegant assistance requests sent to our members and us from abroad, in line with the spirit of Business Diplomacy.

Afterwards, we began to take our steps in coordination by establishing an Earthquake Assistance Coordination Committee under DEİK. In this direction, we have decided to establish the “DEİK Container City” consisting of 1000 containers in the first stage for medium-term support and we are maintaining our efforts non-stop. In addition, we formed a separate working group to determine longterm strategies for the improvement of the sustainable economic structure of the region and the normalization of social life.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed with their support. We wish the mercy of Allah on our citizens who lost their lives, and a quick recovery for our wounded. Together, we will heal our wounds. Just before this painful earthquake disaster we experi enced, we were about to complete the content preparations for our Business Diplomacy journal, in which we discussed the “Defence Industry” in all its detail. In this issue, we made an evaluation of the sector with our companies operating in the field of defence in dustry such as TUSAŞ, ALTINAY, STM, COŞKUNÖZ.

Believing that we will heal our wounds together as soon as possible, I wish you a healthy day.