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G20 Antalya Summit Special Edition Commemorative Stamps
The Turkish Post (PTT) has issued a commemorative G20 Antalya Summit stamp and a first day envelope collection on the occasion of the G20 Antalya Summit. These stamp and envelope have been circulated for public on the first day of the G20 Antalya Summit, 15 November 2015. During the summit, PTT has established a post office in the International Media Center and provided visitors with an opportunity to send G20 postcards to all over the world. A separate special edition stamp project which incorporates all the G20 Leaders has also been prepared by PTT. These stamps of all leaders have been compiled together in a bigger sheet in the memory of the summit. Each stamp has a picture of a leader along with the flag of his/her country. Together with the Leader’s personalized stamps, this corporate stamp sheet was presented to the Leaders by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of...
Queen Maxima and Turkish Deputy PM Launch SME Finance Network
Antalya, Turkey, November 15, 2015 – The SME Finance Forum launched its global member network in a ceremony hosted by Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Special Advocate for the Secretary General of the UN for Inclusive Finance for Development, and Cevdet Yılmaz, the Deputy PM of Turkey. The Forum’s founding members include banks, technology “disruptors”, regulators and development finance institutions from around the world committed to accelerating financing for small businesses. “In many countries, bulk of the employment and trade is generated by SMEs. They have a crucial role in development, commercialization and spread of innovation,” said Deputy Prime Minister Yilmaz. Established by the G-20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) and managed by IFC, the SME Finance Forum brings together private and public sector players to share knowledge, spur innovation, and provide a new voice in policy discourse. Its ultimate goal is closing the enormous SME finance gap,...
World Leaders in Turkey for G20 Summit. Global Economy will be discussed in Antalya.
Antalya, 13 November 2015 – The G20 Leaders’ Summit, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will be held in Antalya on 15 – 16 November. Azerbaijan, Spain, Malaysia, Senegal, Singapore and Zimbabwe will also participate in the Antalya Summit together with the G20 members. Approximately 13 thousand guests—of which 2,469 are media members—will participate in the two-day summit. More than 70 meetings, including the ones at a ministerial level, have been held under the Turkish Presidency since 1 December, 2014. The first Energy Ministers Meeting in the history of G20 was held in Istanbul on 2 October, 2015. The strengthening of SMEs as economic forces that boost global employment, and the integration of SMEs into the global economy have been discussed, leading to the founding of the World SME Forum – a first during the Turkish Presidency. The three main themes of this year’s G20 Summit were chosen as...
G20 Turkey: The Antalya Summit is now available for download
G20 Turkey: The Antalya Summit is now available for download. As an official publication of the G20 Research Group at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, the publication is an essential resource for all G20 stakeholders. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduces the publication with a discussion on Turkey’s inclusive agenda, followed by perspectives from senior political figures such as Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. Turkish Prime Minister Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu and key Turkish ministers also address the agenda of inclusiveness, implementation and investment for growth through their sectors. In addition to policymakers, vital opinions are shared by non-governmental contributors including Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary General; Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary; and Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al Madani, Islamic Development Bank Group President. To download G20 Turkey: The Antalya Summit for free, visit http://www.g7g20.com/publication/g20-2015 For live coverage of...
Global Connection publishes a Special “G20 in Turkey” report in Five Different Countries
The tenth annual G20 Leaders Summit, a platform which brings together the 20 developed and developing countries of the world and the European Union, will be held in Antalya between 15-16 November 2015. “G2O in Turkey”, one of the the official publications of the summit covering the events, has begun to reach readers from five countries . Published by the international media company Global Connection (GC) with contributions from worldwide journalists, “G20 in Turkey” has described Turkey as the “the most dynamic country among the G20”. “G20 in Turkey” which is published with Le Figaro in France, Die Welt and Welt Kompakt in Germany, The Daily Telegraph in the UK. Komsomolskaya Pravda and Kommersant in Russia, and Gulf News in the UAE also features statements by President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Deputy Prime Minister Cevdet Yılmaz, will be reaching 55 million readers. Among the...
G20 Leaders Summit Media Accreditation Announcement
Dear Members of Media, The deadline of the application for the G20 Leaders Summit Media Accreditation has been extended to 31 October 2015 5p.m. (local time) due to the high application demands. Kind...
First Ever W20 Summit in Istanbul called on the G20 Leaders to do more on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment
Women-20 (W20) Summit was held in Istanbul on 16-17 October 2015 with the participation of 36 representatives from 20 countries and two international organizations, namely UN Women and International Labor Organization. Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Uganda were among the countries represented in the Summit, specially invited by W20 Turkey in line with Turkey’s priority to strengthen dialogue with the Low Income Developing Countries during its G20 Presidency. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the participants during the opening ceremony and promised to actively lobby G20 leaders at the Antalya Summit to incorporate W20 recommendations in the Leaders Communiqué. Underscoring that unless women got the status they deserved, economic goals could not be attained, President Erdogan said: “High-quality growth means more jobs, higher life standards and fairer distribution of wealth. The W20 has a great responsibility to contribute and offer suggestions to the G20 in all these areas.” Turkey’s G20...
G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Gathered in Lima Ahead of the Antalya Summit
Taking the opportunity of the IMF – World Bank Annual Meetings, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors convened for their fourth and last gathering under the Turkish Presidency, in Lima, Peru on 8 October 2015. In a working dinner format, Ministers and Governors exchanged views on the latest developments in the global economy and had a final discussion of the key deliverables of the G20 finance track ahead of the Antalya Summit. During the meeting, OECD has presented the recently finalized G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan, which is one of the most significant deliverables of the 2015 agenda. Ministers expressed their full support to the BEPS Action Plan and endorsed its submission to G20 Leaders for their endorsement at the Antalya Summit. Ministers also underscored the importance of coherent and timely implementation and called for the inclusiveness of the future steps in that regard....
W20 Summit Press Release
16-17 OCTOBER 2015 ISTANBUL GENERAL INFORMATION W20 Summit will be held on 16-17 October 2015 at the Grand Tarabya Hotel, Istanbul. ACCREDITATION Media members who wish to cover the W20 Summit have to fill the application form and send it to media@w20turkey.org along with the documents mentioned below not later than 13 October 2015 5p.m. An approval email will be sent to those whose accreditation applications have been approved. Applications with missing documents will be ignored.Accreditation passes are to be collected in person from the press information desk which will be set at the Grand Tarabya Hotel (Haydar Aliyev Caddesi No:154 Tarabya, Sarıyer, İstanbul) beginning from 15 October 2015 9a.m. PS: Media members who had been accredited for the Energy Ministers Meeting (1-2 Oct) and/or the Trade Ministers Meeting (5-6 Oct) can cover the W20 Summit with those accreditation passes; no need to register once again. REQUESTED DOCUMENTS For...
Turkey Hosted The G20 Trade Ministers Meeting in Istanbul
G20 Trade Ministers Meeting was held in Istanbul on 6 October 2015. Turkey became the third G20 country to host the Trade Ministers Meeting, after Mexico and Australia. The meeting brought together the representatives of the G20 members and guests from Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, Kenya (the host of WTO MC10), Malaysia (2015 Chair of ASEAN), Senegal (representing NEPAD), Singapore and Spain. The representatives of international organizations namely IMF, OECD, WTO, WB with whom Turkey worked closely throughout the year also participated in the meeting. Trade, with its undeniable impact on global economic growth and sustainable development, is one of the important agenda items in the G20. Turkey has also identified trade among its overall priorities during its Presidency. In the first session of the meeting, B20 presented its recommendations on trade to the Ministers. B20 will also be submitting these recommendations to the G20 Leaders Summit in Antalya. The...
