Top Businessman Hopes to Strengthen Trade Ties with US
Following his visit to the United States to develop economic relations between Turkey and the U.S., the chairman of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, or TOBB, said he received extremely positive signals from his meetings despite the current picture of weak trade ties.The new “model partnership,” a term used by first U.S. President Barack Obama to define relations between the two countries, has spread to all areas in the U.S., Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, said. “The U.S. Department of State and the Department of Defense presented us with practical advice for developing economic relations. I have been visiting the U.S. for 10 years, but there has never been such an approach. For this reason, I am returning home with high hopes.”
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