Well.. I want to write for the people who want to make business between Turkey & United States.
In my first days in New York, I visited Turkish Consulate General, Commercial Attache and wanted to learn about Turkish-American business relations/connections. Mr. Ahmet CANLI, Commercial Attache helped me a lot and answered my questions.
First of all, I sent an e-mail as they told in their website to make an appointment, they e-mailed me back very quickly which was nice and surprising. Mr. Ahmet CANLI answered all of my question and helped me to have a vision:
In New York there are so many restaurants, deli, grocery or supermarkets. There are so many lawyer offices which I think they are working on mostly financial or immigration issues. What about trade companies who do export-import or others? Yes, of course there are! Since New York is a great place of trade and have a big volume of import, and Turkish people are smart, naturally they got their place in New York.
However, you can’t find them. Not because they are invisible, but they don’t want to involve the Turkish community. For example Pasabahce is a big very famous Turkish company, however they don’t attend any Turkish event and don’t call them Turkish. As I remember, they produce in their Russian factory and they introduce their products as a non-Turkish product.
Mr. CANLI gave me some contact name & my next stop was going to Turkish-American Chamber of Commerce (TACCI). Mr. Safak DOGAN, the director of this organization is a young executive & he is trying to change this lazy Turkish hierarchic system and works really hard. They receive so many questions about how to start business in New York or about the process how to make export-import between Turkey & USA.
About my TACCI observations wait for my next blog.
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