Working together for a better future

Turkey is amazing in many aspects. One of the main reasons for this is the resilience of its people. No matter how bad things get, we somehow find a way to carry on with life.  I am certain that people living in Sweden or New Zealand would not be able to carry on living if they were exposed to just a few days of the events happening in Turkey. 

Maybe we should stop behaving a certain way. Maybe we should stop and redesign our education system and governance styles before doing anything else. But that's not who we are. 

In these extraordinary days, the firms trying to add value to the Turkish economy are doing their best to do business and contribute to society. They do this even though financial forecasts and the tax situation are not bright, and really aren't for their benefit in Turkey. According to a recent report by PWC, between 2014 and 2015, the largest tax ratio increases were in Mexico (2.3 percentage points explained by an increase in taxes on income and profits and in taxes on goods and services as a percentage of GDP) and in Turkey (1.3 percentage points due to higher revenues from taxes on goods and services and higher social security contribution revenues). Other countries with increases in their tax-to-GDP ratio, between 2014 and 2015, of more than one percentage point were Estonia, Greece, Hungary and Slovakia. 

This is why I have begun to have respect for foreign firms who keep working in the Turkish market, for the Turkish people, and particularly Turkish businesses. 

Siemens is probably the oldest of them all, with over 160 years of operations in Turkey. It still keeps going. 
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