Erdogan met with US business people at New York Turkevi

AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received the business world at the Turkish House in New York as part of his visits to the USA. Dilek Güngör, the writer of the pro-government Sabah newspaper, conveyed the details of the meeting attended by 30 US investors.

According to Güngör, the meeting was attended by senior representatives of nearly 30 companies such as US Eximbank, Amazon, Apollo Global, ARC Clean Technology, Boeing, Carrier Energy, Citigroup, Ford, Ge, JP Morgan, MasterCard, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble Company, Uber, Zynga, Fedex, Coca Cola, Lockheed Martin, MSD, Microsoft, Nova Power Solutions, RTX, Honeywell Aerospace, Fairfax International. US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack was also at the meeting.

Sabah writer Dilek Güngör continued as follows regarding the meeting in her article:

"Let's talk about what was discussed inside... After the meeting, we met with DEİK President Nail Olpak and TAİK President Murat Özyeğin. According to what they said, President Erdoğan took notes of every conversation one by one.

Colorful dialogues took place at the meeting... When speaking to the representatives of the beverage industry (Coca Cola-PepsiCo), President Erdoğan asked, 'Which of you has more market share?'... While FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam praised the investments of Istanbul Airport and Turkish Airlines, many companies such as Citibank, MasterCard and Uber shared their ideas of expanding their operations in Turkey. Ford President Jim Baumbick and Ali Koç also conveyed to President Erdoğan the problems that will be experienced due to the Made in EU regulations, which are closely related to the EU's automotive world. USA Eximbank CEO Jeff Wilson stated that the bank has a resource of 115 billion dollars and gave the message that Turkish investors can also benefit from this resource. DEIK President Nail Olpak said that joint investments can be made in African countries with US investors."