Distinguished YASED Members and Stakeholders,

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As the business community, we are striving to improve our competitiveness in this new world order, where we are confronted with emerging challenges such as COVID-19 and talk more and more about global supply chains, digitization, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. As international companies, we closely follow global trends both in our companies and in YASED and try to be part of the transformation with the multinational structure, experience, and extensive communication network of YASED members.

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As investors in Turkey, we have a responsibility to sustain our country’s competitiveness in the changing global order. As long as Turkey succeeds, our investments will be successful. We believe we must draw attention to international investors who promote digitalization, sustainability, integration into supply chains, and startup ecosystems so that we may capture a greater share of these investments on the scale of our potential.

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As YASED, we believe in our country’s goal of increasing its market share from international investment flows to over 1 percent. For this purpose, we were very pleased to see the release of Turkey’s “Foreign Direct Investment Strategy (2021-2023)” by the Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey last year, which we had participated in the preparation stage. We believe that this strategy document will make our country more competitive in hosting quality international investments. As YASED, we are glad to launch the “International Investor Awards,” together with our Investment Office, which we have always worked closely with and see as a pioneer in transforming the competitiveness of our investment environment. International Investor Awards will bring together existing international investors and investment stakeholders in Turkey to highlight quality international investments that contribute to Turkey’s development goals in accordance with the objectives set forth in the Foreign Direct Investment Strategy.

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Within the scope of “2022 YASED International Investor Awards”, the first of the “International Investor Awards” that we aim to organize annually in the coming period, we aim to promote Turkey’s successful international investments beyond Turkey and to disseminate their success stories and best practices. We believe that this study will create a vital resource that highlights the strengths of our country for investors, which can be benefited by our members who are investors in Turkey and potential investors.

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As YASED, we are proud to carry out all our activities to contribute to sustainable economic development in Turkey and create a better business and investment environment in line with the criteria adopted by our members. Within the scope of our award program, which we have carried out with the contributions of the Investment Office, we are waiting for your application for the visibility that your achievements deserve and the inspiration and pride in our investment community by being on the list of quality international investors of Turkey.

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Ayşem Sargın

YASED Chairperson