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The 8
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Atlantic Council Summit convened in İstanbul on April 27-28 with the participation of senior executives of international energy
companies. Tekfen Construction was among the sponsors of the summit.
The Atlantic Council Istanbul Summit 2017 convenes
An American Think Tank, the Atlantic Council has been, for the
last eight years, bringing together leading business people, indus-
trial experts, and political figures of Turkey and the world at the
Istanbul Summit to discuss regional and global problems in energy,
economy, and politics. Among the participants of this year’s sum-
mit, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was a keynote speaker,
were Mohammed Saleh Al Sada, the Energy and Industry Minister
of Qatar, and Berat Albayrak, the Energy and Natural Resources
Minister of Turkey.
Organized with the support of Turkish and international com-
panies such as Tekfen Construction, Chevron, Tüpraş, Halkbank,
Çalık Holding, Limak, BP, TP, and Turkish Airlines, the Atlantic
Council Summit this year focused on the topic of “Strengthening
Transatlantic Consensus in a Volatile Region.” Round table meet-
ings and special sessions were held at the summit with the partici-
pation of 570 delegates from 54 countries. Among topics discussed
were the global and regional energy outlook and the future of en-
ergy management as well as current topics of the global energy
agenda.
Tekfen was extensively represented at the summit with Murat
Gigin, Chairman of the Board of Tekfen Holding, Levent Kafkaslı,
President of Tekfen Construction, Fatih Can, Vice President for
Business Development, İlhan Hazar, Technical Coordinator, and
Uluç Keskin, Business Development Manager.
One of Turkey’s most influential NGOs, TÜSİAD was founded
in 1971 by a group of businessmen and managers, among them
Feyyaz Berker, a founding partner of Tekfen Holding. Feyyaz
Berker served as the president of the association during its first
eight years, thus playing a very important role in TÜSİAD’s growth.
Throughout this period, TÜSİAD undertook international lobby-
ing activities under the leadership of Feyyaz Berker in order to give
support to Turkey in the problems it had in foreign policy. Feyyaz
Berker stepped down from his post as TÜSİAD’s president in 1979,
serving from that date on as the president of the Advisory Board
and later as TÜSİAD’s honorary president. Similarly, Nihat Gökyiğit
is also an honorary member of TÜSİAD.
Sinan Uzan joins
TÜSİAD
Tekfen Holding Board Member Sinan Uzan has joined TÜSİAD (The
Turkish Industry and Business Association) family as Tekfen’s represen-
tative. This marks a change of command from Feyyaz Berker, Founding
Member and Honorary President of TÜSİAD, passing the torch to his
grandson Sinan Uzan.