Turkish-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (TURKCHAM), Istanbul Customs Brokers Association (IGMD) and Hungarian Customs and Tax Service Providers Association (VJASZSZ) signed a memorandum of understanding in Istanbul on October 20, 2021.
We Are Determined to Grow the Foreign Trade of Hungary and Türkiye
These three institutions, which are important for the foreign trade of the two countries, came together again in Budapest on September 28-29-30, 2022 and planned the new period.
Persons attending the meetings:
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• Dr. János BERENYI (President of VJASZSZ)
• Serdar KESKİN (President of IGMD)
• Csaba TORDA (Head of Customs Department of NAV)
• Rıdvan HALİLOĞLU(Vice President of IGMD)
• Taner SARI (Vice President of TURKCHAM and CEO of Çelebi GHH Kft.)
• Mustafa SEZEN (General Secretary of TURKCHAM)
• Sándor SZEPESİ (General Secretary of VJASZSZ)
• Çiğdem AĞDAĞ (General Secretary of IGMD)
• Dr. Janos SÁNDOR (Foreign Affairs Responsible of VJASZSZ)
• Murat Yılmaz GÜNDOĞDU (Board Member of IGMD)
• Akos KOVACS (CEO of Ekol Logistics Kft.)
• Mehmet BAŞARAN (CEO of KÖPRÜ/HID Journal)
• Çağrı OYMAN (CEO of APD Real Estate Kft.)
• Atilla ÖZMERİÇ (TURKCHAM Member)
• Nadir AĞDAĞ (Member of IGMD)
With the memorandum of understanding; It is aimed to contribute to the improvement of the functioning processes in customs and the foreign trade of Türkiye-Hungary to exceed 6 Billion Dollars. For this purpose, the Chairman of TURKCHAM, Mr. Suat G. KARAKUŞ; He invited the Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Türkiye to cooperate with TURKCHAM for cooperation. It is gratifying to receive an extremely positive response to this invitation from TOBB President Mr. Rıfat HİSARCIKLIOĞLU. In the upcoming period, we aim to speed up our meetings with TOBB and make our businessmen more active, especially in the European Market.
Together with our guest delegation (Istanbul Customs Brokers Association – IGMD), we also visited our Ambassador, Mrs. Gülşen C. KARANİS EKŞİOĞLU (Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Hungary) , and gave information about our work. We would also like to thank our Ambassador Mrs. EKŞİOĞLU for her interest and support in our work.
In addition, our guest delegation also visited the “Budin’s spiritual guardian” Gül Baba Tomb, which is considered the symbol of Turkish-Hungarian friendship; We received information about their work from the directors of the Gül Baba Foundation, Mrs. Agnes KAVALCI and Mr. Gabor PALFI. Thank you very much to Mrs. KAVALCI and Mr. PALFI for their kind invitation.
As Turkish-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (TURKCHAM), we are proud and honored to work for the growth of foreign trade between Türkiye and Hungary and to transfer the historical friendship to future generations.