For 8 years I have been producing this magazine. This is perhaps our most pessimistic issue.
Eyüp Batal, President of İMİB, says, “There is no appetite for investment in the sector, there are worries about tomorrow”.
EİB Coordinator President Jak Eskinazi says, “If this continues, exporters will become entombed.”
İbrahim Alimoğlu, President of EMİB, says, “We cannot continue like this”
Mining Platform makes a statement, “The new regulation targets Turkey’s future, not mining”
In the light of all this, I analyze the sector, and I headline “It’s dark everywhere”
Look, this is no joke.
This is the cry of an industry with a knife to its throat: “Save it”.
This is the struggle of marble producers, who have been seen as the ‘chicken that lays the golden eggs’ in the eyes of the public for years, to ‘catch their breath’.
It is an effort to give a voice to people who have been marginalized, demonized, and stabbed in the back with imported stones carried into public buildings, but who have reached out to their country and people in all kinds of disasters, fires and earthquakes, from raw material production to balancing the current account deficit, from generating the main budget income of the Ministry of Forestry to creating the main budget income of the Ministry of Forestry.
We will talk again tomorrow about how mining should be done in Turkey, how production processes should work, how rehabilitation work should be carried out.
We will discuss what should change in terms of marketing and how export incentives should be utilized.
Everybody will come forward and we will find a middle ground.
However.
Today, in order to keep this sector alive,
To keep this sector afloat,
It’s time to find solutions.
Otherwise…
