(12.02.2020) The Economic Chamber of Macedonia-Turkey (MATTO) welcomed the representatives of the Turkish Democratic Party (TDP) headed by the President of the party Mr. Bejcan Ilyas.

The representatives of TDP listened to the proposals of the members of MATTO and the TDP party presented a program that is planned to be implemented in the coming period.

İlyas: Türk şirketlerinin taleplerini dinledik

Mr. Ajdovan Ademoski, with the vice presidents of MATTO, Alper Ersoy, Imer Selmani, Eser Cevahir, Buket Gereci and other members of the Board of MATTO, thanked for the accepted invitation for the meeting and stressed that in 10 years of existence for the first time political consultations are held parties, in terms of lobbying for MATTO priorities. On behalf of MATTO, several requests were made to the TDP, of which they have priority: to revise the Free Trade Agreement between Macedonia and Turkey as soon as possible, in terms of its modernization and liberalization of agricultural and food products; to establish the Ministry of Tourism and to approach this sector as one of the strategic factors of the country’s development; to facilitate the procedures for issuing residence permits in the country, for foreigners, in order to attract foreign students to study at our higher education institutions as well as a more efficient procedure in issuing a temporary residence permit to a qualified force; to obtain a subsidy for an International Balkan University, such as a subsidy for Stulov University in Tetovo; 

establishment of TIDZ in the Strumica-Gevgelija region, based on a private public partnership with Turkish investors; The government should establish a dialogue with the Turkish Exim Bank for the realization of the existing loan of US $ 400,000, approved for Macedonia.