Aegean Young Businessmen Association, which hosts the protocol names of the Izmir business world and is a guide in the working area of the association (EGİAD) Advisory Board held its last meeting of the year at İZQ Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center with a wide participation. It is one of the most effective boards of the region where the problems of both the city and the country are discussed. EGİAD The main agenda items of the Advisory Board are; EGİAD term activities and projects, evaluation of Turkey's and İzmir's economic agenda, young people's voting in the upcoming elections EGİAD ve EGİAD with the work that can be done by business organizations such as EGİAD Advisory Board members were informed about the Think Tank Report. The political arena and the economic agenda of the young people and especially the generation Z who will vote in the upcoming elections were marked by the meeting.
Representatives of the Izmir business world attended the meeting, which was held at the IzQ Innovation Center Great Event Hall. EGİAD Mahmut Özgener, Chairman of the Advisory Board and EGİAD The event, hosted by Alp Avni Yelkenbiçer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, started with the presentation of the association's commission work and its activities in strategic fields. Uğur Yüce, Şükrü Ünlütürk, Yiğit Tatış, Cüneyt Karagülle, Bülent Akgerman, Temel Aycan Şen, Aydın Buğra İlter, Mustafa Aslan, Emre Kızılgüneşler, Hasan Denizkurdu, Oğuz Özkardeş, Hasan Küçükkurt, Tamer Taşkın, Sibel Zorlu, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Tanyeri, Selami Özpoyraz, Önder Türkkani, Levent Kuşgöz, Deniz Sipahi, Engin Uğur Ağır, Yaşar Kuş, Anıl Yüksel, Feyzi Kaya, Mahir Kaplan, Turan Göksan, Merve Özbatır, Yeşil Taşkın Deniz, Burak Güngör, Alper Koçak, Emre Sarıgedik, Many more prominent names of the industry such as İlker Sabuncu, Özüm İlter Demirci, Tolga Şekercioğlu, Yonca Güngör Çınar, Yücel Koç attended.
6 Events in 107 Months
EGİAD President Alp Avni Yelkenbiçer made an informative presentation on the latest works in his opening speech. Yelkenbiçer stated that they carried out 6 activities in 107 months. EGİAD as Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Digitalization, EGİAD He conveyed what he identified as the future. Yelkenbiçer summarized the activities carried out numerically as follows: “6 International Activities, 4 Sustainability and Future Meetings, 16 Business Development Activities and Cooperation, 29 Press Meetings, 5 Seminars and Interviews, 10 Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs Activities, 33 Angel Investor Entrepreneur Meetings. We spent another 6 months active and full. We made a name for ourselves in the entrepreneurship sector with 25 Investments, Over 3000 Entrepreneur Evaluations, and 4 Million Dollars of investment. In the last 6 months, the viewership rate of our events was 3, and the number of media coverage of all our events was 609," he said.
Successful Projects Increased the Number of New Members
In the event, where it was emphasized that a successful period was signed, it was emphasized that the projects on Sustainability, Digitalization and the Future constituted the main theme. Expressing that they are happy to produce projects that touch the members, EGİAD President Yelkenbiçer said, “We have realized projects that have touched our members, and we have carried out events that made a lot of noise in our region. One of the global companies that make the best practices in the world, leading in their fields EGİAD We made a wide range of visits to our local member companies and gained information. By putting the theme of sustainability on the agenda not only in terms of environmental protection, but also in socio-cultural and managerial terms, we offer our services to all our stakeholders. EGİADWe have shown what 's expects from the business world and what kind of ecosystem we want to work in. We took care to be the voice of the young generation that has just joined the business life. We have experienced the positive effects of all these works we have done in our association because we have regained the feeling of social communication and togetherness that was injured during the pandemic period. Producing together made us all stronger, and thus our faith in the future was strengthened and our hopes rose. By paving the way for leadership mechanisms within the association, we tried to develop the potentials of our members who can lead in the coming years of our association. We tried to spread our kindness movement by joining arms with everyone who wanted to work and produce. We saw the participation of our 65 new member friends as a result of this movement.”
Studies on youth lead us
Speaking at the meeting EGİAD Mahmut Özgener, Advisory Board and Chairman of İZTO Board of Directors, EGİADStating that . Making a general assessment of the economic agenda, Özgener also thanked Turkey Report Director Can Selçuki for his presentation and said, “The data on young people are guiding us all. It is very important for us to know the perspectives of our youth on politics, non-governmental organizations and entrepreneurship.”
The final evaluation of the Entrepreneurship Report was also included at the meeting. Making the final presentation of the report, Turkey Report Director Can Selçuki noted that they reached an assessment on Opportunity and Need Entrepreneurship, based on the results of the survey conducted with 12 thousand participants under the headings of Looking to the Future, Digitalization, and Sustainability. Expressing that they are faced with the demand of a different human capital in İzmir, Selçuki emphasized that policies that will bring Opportunity Entrepreneurship to the fore should be supported. Expressing that the predictions of those who want to do entrepreneurship in İzmir are positive, Selçuki pointed out that it is positive to bring together Opportunity Entrepreneurship and Smart Capital. He emphasized that proposals were made to set the entrepreneurship system in Izmir as an example for Turkey.
Young Voters Discussed: “Generation Z Antipolitics”
Enabling young people to vote in the upcoming elections EGİAD In the event, which also touched upon the work that can be done by business world organizations such as business world, the researches revealed that the young people mostly give up hope from politics, and the road map that can be followed for the young people to go to the polls and regain their political hope was determined. Drawing attention to the fact that young voters under the age of 30 mostly give up hope from politics, it has been pointed out by the researches, “The field of politicians is to give hope to the youth, but as a result of the researches, it has been revealed that the young people are reluctant and hopeless to go to the ballot box and cast their votes. There should be activities that can be done so that young people realize their political responsibilities and bring their political views to the ballot box. NGOs have a responsibility in this regard. Publishing a declaration on this subject and sharing it with political parties may be one of the roadmaps that can be followed.
At the board meeting, where Turkey Report Director Can Selçuki's assessment of the voter profile of Generation Z was also included, the issue was discussed and discussed. Citing the research conducted with 18 young people between the ages of 30-3 across Turkey, Selçuki emphasized that three main findings were reached and said, “First of all, young people are not aliens. There is a presumption in the definition of Generation Z that it is very different from the general society. But this is not true. They differ sharply from other segments due to the digitality of their growth period, but when we look at their problems and demands, we see that there is not a big difference. Our codes are actually the same with our young friends who went through the same cultural education. These young people are also not apolitical, but anti-politics. What does antipolitics mean, they never trust the institutions and actors of current politics. Because in the last period, politics did not give them anything it promised. It didn't give a better education, it didn't offer a better life. When you look at it now, they start their lives with a serious debt. They have a very serious foreign demand. Now when we look at all these, it would not be right to say that they are antipolitical, but we can say that they are antipolitics. In other words, they are against the political establishment. Since politics has already lost trust in the world, we see that civil society has come to the fore. When we evaluate all these, what does it mean for Turkey? As the concept of anti-politics spreads to the generations who will vote in the future, young people become open to populist discourses. First of all, it is necessary to change the rhetoric for young people between the ages of 3-18 instead of the Z generation. It is necessary to understand that the problems related to all segments of society, such as life and livelihood, are also their problems. There are actually opportunities to engage young people in politics, to convince them that politics can produce solutions to their problems, and to renew their faith in the system. Civil society has a role to play here. Actually, NGOs are doing their job, it is the political institution that is not doing its job here. All political parties have youth institutions, but there are no individuals to be champions of it. It is difficult to include those individuals in politics because of belligerent rhetoric and corruption rhetoric. For example, you should make an animal activist, an environmental activist a vice president somewhere. Politics needs to get out of its comfort zone and loosen its administrative strings. There are 30 million voters between the ages of 18-30. That's 15 percent of the 60 million total voters. It is a very important ratio for brands in both politics and economy. However, such radical moves must be made in order to awaken the politically dormant youth. Otherwise, anti-politics will become layer by layer in society. This situation poses a problem that will create a populist surge that poses a risk not only for this election but also for future elections and generations.”
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