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PLASFED DERGİ (MAIB) was concluded. At the General Mee- ting, Kutlu Karavelioğlu who served as the Deputy Chairman took office over from Adnan Dalgakıran who served as the chairman for 12 years. Kutlu Karavelioğlu, Chairman for the Machinery Exporters’ Association, reminded that the machinery industry increased its ex- port volume 9 times in the last 16 years. The Elective Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting of MAIB, which represents more than 10.000 Turkish machinery exporters and works on contributing to their competitive- ness under the brand of “Machinery Manufac- turers of Turkey”, was held on April 14th. Kutlu Karavelioğlu delivered a speech at the General Meeting and noted that, the machi- nery industry increased its export volume, whichwas around USD 1.7 billion in 2001, nine times thanks to the investments and effecti- ve promotional activities over the last 16 ye- ars and that it established its export objective as USD 18 billion. General Meeting of the Federa- tion of Industrial Associations concluded The Federation of Industrial Associations (SEDEFED) concluded its general meeting where the board of directors to take office in the new working term is determined. Ali Avcı was re-elected as the chairperson at the Ge- neral Meeting. The new term work program was also agreed during the General Meeting. 2018-2019 SEDEFED work plan noted that “Digital Anatolian Days” program would con- tinue. During the new term, the focus on will be on agricultural, automotive and textile in- dustries. The 2nd Competition Congress will take pla- ce in 2018 according to the program. In line with OECD’s 2017 Digital Economy Outlook Report, the developments in the Turkish digi- tal economy will be monitored and reported. Similarly, within the scope of the OECD’s The Next Production Revolution Report, a study will be conducted to investigate the technical dimensions of the digital economy. Monito- ring Turkey’s Process of Adaptation to the EU Digital Single Market Strategy, Digitalization, Informal Economy and Branding Activities for SMEs will be conducted. In the new period, SEDEFED-TUSIAD coordi- nation activities will continue and informative studies will be conducted on the effects of Industry 4.0 and on the adaptation of enterp- rises to this process. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becomes the first president of the new governmental system On June 24th, Turkey elected the President to serve in the first implementation period of Presidential Government System and the parliament members to serve in the Turkish Grand National Assembly during the 27th term. The Parliament Member Election for the 27th term broke new grounds in terms of the establishment of the legal alliances announ- ced before the election. - Presidential election 51 million 197 thousand 832 of 59 million 367 thousand 469 voters voted in the presidenti- al election. 50 million 68 thousand 627 of the votes were deemed valid. As a result of the elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the candidate for the Justice and Development Party, also supported by the Nationalist Movement Party, received 26 million 330 thousand 823 of the votes, reac- hing 52.59 percent of the votes and was elec- ted in the first round. RESULTS OF THE GENERAL PARLIAMEN- TARY ELECTIONS OF JUNE 24TH Justice and Development Party (AKP) 21,338,693 42.56 Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) 5,565,331 11.1 PUBLIC ALLIANCE 26,904,024 53.66 Republican People’s Party (CHP) 11,354,190 22.65 Good Party (IYI) 4,993,479 9.96 Islamist Felicity Party (SP) 672,139 1.34 NATIONAL ALLIANCE 17,019,808 33.95 People’s Democratic Party (HDP) 5,867,302 11.7 - Newcabinet, newgovernmen- tal model: Presidential decrees have critical importance Turkey converted the parliamentary system, which continued since its establishment and can be summarized as the executive powers originating from within the Parliament, to the Presidential Government System with the Constitutional changes introduced in 2017. The most important governmental structural change introduced by this modification was the abolishment of the Prime Ministry. All the powers possessed by the Prime Ministry will pass to the Presidency. In addition, the offi- ce of “Undersecretariat”, which constituted the backbone of the Turkish democracy, was abolished. The roles, which were formerly undertaken by the Undersecretariat, will be assigned to “Deputy Ministers”. For this, the staff of 1 personnel member allowed for the Deputy Ministry for each ministry were incre- ased to 5. The Presidential Government System will have 16 ministries, 4 offices and 9 coordina- tion committees. Ali Çalışkan, CEO for KORDSA: “Our focus is to continue our sustainable growth in existing markets” KORDSA, one of the global companies of Tur- key, continues its growth. Attracting attenti- on with its recent technological investments in Turkey, KORDAS also works on maintaining the strong growth in its areas of operation. PLASFEDMAG had an interview with Ali Çalış- kan, CEO for KORDSA, about the performance in 2017 and the plans for the upcoming period. BREAKING NEWS 99