Meeting with Mr. Fuat Kasimcan, a Chief Commercial Counselor of the Turkish Embassy

A business meeting with Fuat Kasimcan was a first phase of Young MBSA project “Meeting with Turkish and European Entrepreneurs in Istanbul”.
Project, initialized by Young MBSA, YES and TÜGIAD, and co-worked in cooperation with Czech Chamber of Commerce, TURKISH EMBASSY - Office of the Commercial Counselor, General Consulate CR in Istanbul and CzechTrade, is a first step to further promotion of business cooperation between the Czech Republic and Turkey.

Prague, 14th September 2009 - Official meeting kindly hosted by Mr. Fuat Kasimcan took place at the Turkish embassy. Mr. Peter Compel and Ms. Lea Zidkova, both representatives of Young MBSA, and Mr. Tomas Zazvorka of UniControls, were present.

Mr. Zazvorka being also a participant of the event which will be taking place 23rd – 27th September 2009 in Istanbul had been trying to cooperate with Turkish partners for some time now, and therefore has taken this opportunity for meeting with Mr. Kasimcan.

Several topics have been discussed. Peter Compel shortly introduced Young MBSA as a stabile and prestigious platform for young people active in management, business, science, sport and arts. Young MBSA being a non-profit, non-governmental and independent association brings together young people from diverse professions, and forms a growing platform for meeting, networking, sharing and exchanging information and professional experience, and enlarging horizons through a valuable both national and international network. Only in September there will be two networking events organized or co-organized by Young MBSA, Mr. Compel emphasized.

Then Mr. Kasimcan provided the participants with overall information about Turkish market and economy mentioning that Turkey with her vast historical, cultural and natural resources, a very dynamic and young population and rapidly expanding market has been rated the sixth biggest economy in Europe. According to a latest survey Turkey has also been rated as the 31st easy-doing-business country (CR being the 76th). Turkey is also one of the most promising countries for foreign investors.

Then Czech-Turkish networking event initialized by Young MBSA in July 2009 and to be realized in late September 2009, was being discussed.
Mr. Zazvorka, a participant of foreign networking event, briefly talked about UniControls activities.
 

Mr. Kasimcan welcomed Young MBSA activities and also its attempts to further promote mutual Czech-Turkish business relations, and promised Young MBSA active participation in looking for suitable Turkish business partners.

from left: Peter Compel and Lea Zídková (Young MBSA), Tomáš Zázvorka (UniControls), Fuat Kasimcan (Chief Commercial Counselor at Turkish Embassy)

Photo: archive Young MBSA

You will find an interview with Mr. Fuat Kasimcan for CBW (Czech Business Weekly) about investment possibilities here.