New President Celal Kadooğlu

Southeastern Anatolia Grain Legume Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association Elective Ordinary General Assembly Meeting was held. Celal Kadooğlu was elected as the President of the Union in the elections held as a single list in the General Assembly. 

The general assembly meeting held in the building of Southeastern Anatolian Exporters’ Union was attended by Ahmet Fikret Kileci, Coordinator of Southeastern Anatolian Exporters’ Union, Mahsum Altunkaya, Chairman of TİM Grain Legumes Sector Board, Mehmet Akıncı, President of Gaziantep Commodity Exchange, Abidin Kaplan, President of Southeastern Anatolian Carpet Exporters’ Union, Abdülkadir Çıkmaz, Coordinator of Former Southeastern Anatolian Exporters’ Union and exporters. 


Celal Kadooğlu was elected as the Union President in the elections held as a single list in the Elective Ordinary General Assembly Meeting of Southeastern Anatolia Grain, Legume Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association. Mesut Acar, Ahmet Tiryakioğlu, Ali Çoban, Ramazan Altunkaya, Kemal Çakmak, Seyid Yusuf Akan, Oğuz Özmen, Erhan Sayın, Abdülkadir Ercan and Fatih Ready were on the Board of Directors of the Union. 

While Şerif Selçuk, Ahmet Fatih Sarı and Ali Can Koçak were also elected as members of the Supervisory Board, the Council of Turkish Exporters (TIM) Delegates were composed of the following names: Mesut Acar, Ahmet Tiryakioğlu, Ali Çoban, Ramazan Altunkaya, Kemal Çakmak, Abdulkadir Ercan, Oğuz Özmen, Seyit Yusuf Akan, M. Surur Aydın and Nimet Tarandir.

Celal Kadooğlu, the new President of the Grain, Legume Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, made a thank you speech after the elections. Thanking the managers, exporters and Union employees who have been working since the establishment of the Southeastern Anatolia Grain, Legume Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, President Kadooğlu stated that they will try to contribute more to the country’s economy by increasing exports in the coming period.

President Kadooğlu continued, saying “I hope that a new era will begin in our union. In the past period, our presidents made very good projects. We extend our gratitude to them for their efforts and pay our respects. We have very valuable and experienced brothers in our new administration. We have young dynamic brothers. We will continue to serve our export family by bringing together both experience and youth. I would like to express my gratitude and thank you for your presence at our general assembly and for your trust in us. Good luck with our general assembly. “