The President of İHKİB (Association of Istanbul Textile and Garment Industry Exporters), Hikmet Tanrıverdi said that textile sector was damaged from the fictitious export corruptions which existed recently at the speech in publicity meeting of 18th Eurasia Economy Summit. Tanrıverdi who pointed out the negative outlook with the impact of the change at the general situation of export, stated that this problem could be handle by carrying out market diversification and thus Eurasia Economy Summit served fort his aim as well.
Hikmet Tanrıverdi who criticized sector with being called fictitious export said “As being ready wear and textile sector, we are the keystone of Turkish economy. For years, we have been adding value to production, export and employment in our country and we have blazed a trail to raise all this data upper. While travelling world inch by inch, we are sharing our knowledge with other sectors and we are leading up them to grow and develop. When we look at the last 20 years’ situation, while Turkey carried out 21.6 billon dollars export in 1995, we made about 2/3 of this number with 6,2 billion dollars. We carried away our 7, 2 billion dollars export in 2000 to 14, 2 billion dollars in 2010 and 18, 7 billion dollars last year”.
“We are The Keystone of Economy”
Tanrıverdi who stated that ready wear sector which realized 233 billion dollars export within 20 years was the keystone of Turkish economy and said that he was strictly opposed to sector to be brought under suspicion by using its name also added “We became one of the first three sector which provide the highest added value with 24 dollars in an environment where Turkey average is1, 5 dollar/ kg export. As being ready wear and textile sector which have made a major contribution to the recognition of Turkish brand in the world with its export over 200 countries, we think that being called as fictitious export is the heaviest penalty which can be given to these ones who signed under this success. We don’t deserve this label. Our Turkish ready wear exporters who are the honor of Turkey with the people who are not even a ready wear manufacturer and see that undeserved gain is halal for themselves cannot be put in the same equation. Therefore, we fly in the face of bringing our sector under suspicion by using its name and creating such a wrong perception while defining these people. We are waiting for guilty to be judged within the judicial system by bringing them to justice. On the other hand, we request to be stayed out of the wrong expressions which we cannot understand its recognition according to who and what by prosthetic of textile businessman definition in the manner of effecting a sector all out negatively”.
What Happened?
The fictitious export operation mentioned by Tanrıverdi was carried out for about 20 fabric factory which dealt with fabric import and export in Eminönü. According to the official reports which were published, while it was being stated that the leader of the fictitious export ring was Ahmet Gerz who had criminal record for the same crimes at the police station and Celal Kaya also existed among the 38 businessmen who were taken into custody who were carrying out fabric business in Eminönü and Cüneyt Dizdar who was the owner of ‘ The Stars of the Export’ reward which was given with the organization arranged by The Association of Uludağ Textile Export Businessmen (UTIB) in 2012 and due to his successful performance carried out in 2011.
It was defined that fictitious profiteers imported raw materials and material without VAT from foreign countries to export. It was determined that the suspicious people didn’t use different textile products and materials especially chair fabric on the exported products and sold these to the home market and they damnified government billions liras tax damage with this method. It was defined that they reflected the products brought with false documents as being sold to foreign countries by showing them as processed.
