IKV Board of Directors Chairman Ayhan Zeytinoğlu and IKV delegation visited İstanbul Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors President İbrahim Çağlar on 15 December 2015. During the visit, relations between IKV and ITO, which is among the founder organizations and trustees of IKV, as well as joint activities that could be initiated in the new period are discussed.

During the meeting, IKV Chairman Ayhan Zeytinoğlu stressed the importance given by IKV to the EU accession process and Turkey’s alignment with EU norms which are contributing to the country’s socio-economic development. IKV Chairman Ayhan Zeytinoğlu, who took office at the occasion of the 53^rd General Assembly which was held on 6 July 2015, expressed his wish in IKV Board of Directors cooperating closely with all trustee and supporter organizations. In that context, he reiterated that relations with trustee organizations would be strengthened in the upcoming period. As IKV, Zeytinoğlu also reminded that a special importance is given to enhance relations with chambers and stock exchanges which are members of TOBB and added that within that framework, informative seminars on EU issues would be held in various parts of Turkey in 2016.

ITO President İbrahim Çağlar conveyed his thanks to IKV Chairman for his visit and underlined IKV’s importance for ITO specifically with regard to the activities and research about the EU. Çağlar also gave information about the latest initiatives of ITO and highlighted that IKV and ITO could cooperate in conducting sectoral analysis in the process of the revision of the Customs Union.

Following the meeting, IKV Chairman Ayhan Zeytinoğlu offered ITO President İbrahim Çağlar a ceramic plaquet at the occasion of IKV’s 50^th anniversary. On the other hand, ITO President offered IKV Chairman and IKV delegation certificates for the visit.

İKV Board of Directors Ayhan Zeytinoğlu was accompanied by Vice-President Prof. Haluk Kabaalioğlu and Zeynep Bodur Okyay, Member of the Steering Committee and Accounting Member of Board of Directors and Adana Chamber of Commerce Atilla Menevşe, Member of the Steering Committee Dr. Zeynel Abidin Erdem, Member of the Board of Directors and Istanbul Commodity Exchanges Vice-Chairman İlhan Koyunseven, Members of the Board of Directors İlhan Soylu, Sedat Zincirkıran, Audit Committee Member Mustafa İçöz, Secretary-General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas, Deputy Secretary-General and Research Director Melih Özsöz and TOBB EU Department Researcher Senem Yavaş.