Summaries in English
Halit Narin, the Chairman of Our Union's Board of
Directors says:
 In spite of growth records being broken in economy, the gradual increase in unregistered economy is quite negative and worrisome Halit Narin, the Chairman of Our Union's Board of Directors has evaluated the state of textile sector in frames of unemployment, unregistered economy and unfair competition.
How does the future of the sector look according to you?
It has been envisaged in EU reports that Turkey will live through capacity and employment losses of 20% in textile and 35% in garment industry after 2005. And this indicates that 500 thousand people in the sector will confront with the danger of becoming unemployed in the forthcoming year.
The tremendous competition medium to occur upon abolishment of quotas in accordance with DTO resolutions in our sector is more worrisome for textile and garment industry sector. The loss of balance shall increase the extent of the general unemployment problem in Turkey. For the economical growth fails to solve the employment problem of the growing population.
Despite the positive indications in economy, the unregistered economy could not be prevented. What kind of effects does this make on the sector?
In spite of growth records being broken in economy, the gradual increase in unregistered economy is quite negative and worrisome. The rate of unregistered economy that was 38% in 1985 has reached 66% today.
It must not be surprising that Turkey, which has the highest
employment burden among OECD countries, has the lowest employment rate among them. Yet just as we had tried to explain to the former governments, an important reason that has led the unregistered economy and the unregistered employment to these rates is the over narrowness of the tax and Social Security premiums base. The liabilities stipulated for the registered sector are giving the result of a further narrowing in the base. In short, the intensive tax and premium burden for establishments is stirring up the vicious circle and sabotaging the production.
Which policies should the government follow in order to increase production and employment in textile? In the sense of dissuading import and encouraging production; what should investment incitements be?
In labor intensive sectors, the energy cost is over 9 cents. This has to be pulled down to average OECD rates. Particularly, for export and agriculture sectors that are labor intensive, the energy price should hastily be made 4 cent/Kwh that is the EU average.
It is an urgency that very high institutions tax, VAT and indirect taxes, which tempts unregistered activities, are pulled down to levels that would encourage the registered economy in Turkey to invest in labor intensive sectors.
Being a society that produces work and food at EU criteria and whose people are happy will only be possible when we set out for the objective of production in Turkey.
A modern primary school by Narin for Germir
The famous businessman Halit Narin was welcomed with displays of love by students and teachers at the entrance of the school that he got built in Germir.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish Textile Industry Employers Union, Halit Narin has had emotional moments during the visit he made to Germir, his birthplace.
Halit Narin, who has been to his home home village together with the members of the board of directors of the union that gathered in Kayseri this time for the monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, has been welcomed with displays of love in his village that he had not seen for 15 years.
After the welcome at the village square, he visited the primary that he got built in the name of his parents by donating 700 billion TL. Halit Narin, who was welcomed with flowers at the entrance of the
school by students, conversed with the school directors and village elders and received information
about their needs. He toured the school and had commemorative photo together with students.
Textile dealers are founding Transcorporational Training Center in Kayseri and Çerkezköy
The Turkish Textile Industry Employers Union is getting ready for opening textile teaching schools with the aim of producing a basic solution for the qualified worker problem of the sector. The chairman of the Board of Directors of the Union, Halit Narin has made a declaration in Kayseri and said 'The textile sector is in need of qualified, trained worker and we want an educational system that would compensate this requirement. We are after a project that will lead the present system further in the sector."
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Textile Industry Employers Union, Halit Narin has emphasized that the country is in need of well-informed and skilled workers not only in textile but also in all sectors and said "We are ready to fulfill our tasks
for the economical develp-ment of Turkey so long as our means permit."
Halit Narin has stated that they wish to open one of the planned textile schools in Kayseri since Kayseri is one of the key textile centers of Turkey with its spindle whorl reaching up to 700 thousand and said so in brief:
"We are looking for people that shall work and produce added value. We need engineers, technicians, intermediate workers, administrators. Instead of people who would sit at their desks, we wish for master workman, technicians, workers and engineers to be. About training, problems were faced in the past with respect to practices made in some of the universities."
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