Binali Yıldırım: 40 years of terror cost us 1,5 trillion USD
Former Prime Minister and Head of Grand National Assembly of Turkey Binali Yıldırım, speaking at the 6th International Trade Congress, said: “Today, less than 20 per cent of the world population takes 82 per cent of the world's 80 trillion dollars gross national product. Only 4 countries get more than one third of the gross national product. 5 billion 200 million people live in the region of Eurasia. The world is not just those four countries. The future of this region is very promising indeed. Centuries ago immigration caravans and the silk route went from east to west, and now the wealth of the world began to shift from west to east. That is why the US gives China hard times.”
The 6th International Trade Congress annually organized by İnanç, Education, Culture, Social Behavior and Solidarity Association (İNANÇDER) was held this year at Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) with the theme of ‘One Belt One Road’. Former Prime Minister and Head of Grand National Assembly of Turkey Binali Yıldırım, Vice Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Selim Durgun, İstanbul Parliamentarian of 24th, 25th, 26th Period from AK Party Metin Külünk, Founding Chairman of İNANÇDER Board Necdet Külünk, IGU Chairman of the Board of the Trustees Abdulkadir Gayretli, academicians and businesspeople attended the Congress.
Turkey's foreign trade, Turkey's parameters in the relations of US and China, the effects of the project One Belt One Road’ on Turkey, the importance of logistics in international trade discussed in the Congress.
Former Prime Minister and Head of Grand National Assembly of Turkey Binali Yıldırım stated that IGU is one of the unique universities which has worldwide accredited programs at his speech and thanked to the Chairman of the Board of the Trustees Abdülkadir Gayretli due to the university’s achievements and wished him a continued success.
"ONE BELT ONE ROAD PROJECT’S NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED"
Stating that the name of ‘One Belt One Road’ project has been changed., Yıldırım said: “It changed as ‘Belt and Road’ now. Because it has the north, south and middle corridors. Discontent has occurred between the countries. Therefore, they generalized the name of the project. The historical Silk Road has not just one route. For centuries, it was a route of the wealth between west and east in the region of Eurasia. This route is a complete road network.”
THE WORLD HAS BEEN BECOMING A GLOBAL VILLAGE THROUGH DIGITAL AGE
Stating that the world met the digital age in the early 2000s, Yıldırım said: The goal of the digital age is to make our world a global village. The aims are to bring countries closer to each other and to ensure a fairer distribution of global prosperity and also the elimination of regional and global unrest. The aim was well-intentioned, but this did not happen. We see that wealth and prosperity in the world has been moving on in an unfair way. The developed western countries provided the circulation of capital, but they prevented the circulation of people and restricted the circulation of goods. They have continued to exploit the labor force and the production capability of developing countries with the capital they provided. This further exacerbated regional unrest.”
"THE WORLD DOES NOT CONSIST OF JUST FOUR COUNTRIES"
Stating that The World’s wealth has already moved to the East from the West, Yıldırım said: “Today, 82 percent of the world's 80 trillion dollars of gross product takes less than 20 percent of the world's population. Only 4 countries get more than one third of the gross national product. 5 billion 200 million people live in the geography of Eurasia. The world does not consist of just four countries. The future of this geography is very bright. Centuries ago immigration caravans and the silk route went from east to west, and now the wealth of the world began to shift from west to east. That is why the US rushes over China”
THE BILL FOR 40 YEARS OF TERRORISM İS 1,5 TRILLION DOLLARS
Reminding that Turkey is fighting against terrorism since 40 years, Yıldırım added: “Why do they want to reduce the energy of our country through terrorism, slow down and delay the development goals? The bill for 40 years of terrorism is $ 1.5 trillion. Of course I keep our martyrs lost. Their price is not something to be measured with money or stamps. If we used our resources for our country, we could have built 4 Istanbul Airport, 20 Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridges and 6 Istanbul-Izmir Motorway, Osmangazi Bridges, and realize 8 Marmaray projects”.
"EURASIA GEOGRAPHY WILL GET THE WIND FROM BEHIND AGAIN"
Binali Yıldırım, also said: "We are in a difficult geography and it is a fact that there are hesitations on our country from time to time due to the events taking place outside of us. However, no matter what the circumstances, the next years will be a period in which the Eurasian Geography, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Far East take the wind from behind. Signs of this have already appeared".
"WE DO NOT TALK ON OUR PROJECTS"
Stating that the future lays on the mind sweat-on human, Yıldırım said that investment should be made to people. Indicating that Marmaray is a World Project, Yıldırım added: “We made the Eurasia Tunnel. No one can perform this kind of service in a period in the known history of Istanbul. Yes, service is important but that is not enough that we have seen in recent elections. We will of course do the service, but we will not be in fault on the roads to the hearts of people. 2 days ago I saw a tweet, one lady says, 'Mr. Ekrem, I used Marmaray, it was very good that you have done'. The biggest weakness of our power, incompetence is that we do not talk on our successes.”
“WE WILL BUILD THE SILK WAY TOGETHER”
Necdet Külünk, the Chairman of the İNANÇDER Administrative Board, said: “In the words of the Chinese president, we will work together to build the Silk Way economic belt and the 21st century Sea Silk Way. We will build the Silk Way together in a win-win cooperation. As the Chinese proverb says, 'peaches and plums do not speak, but create a path under them'. Thanks to the new Silk Way, an environment has been created to ensure the contacts arising from the historical Silk Way 2 thousand years ago. In 2015, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was established to finance the Chinese Silk Way initiative. The difference of this project from the Silk Way 2 thousand years ago is that it connects countries with railway networks.”
"WE MUST BE A PRODUCING GENERATION"
Chairman of the IGU Board of Trustees Abdulkadir Gayretli stating that they are happy to host the Congress, added: “Turkey is a country that runs to a world leadership. In such a country, we must act in unity and solidarity with the determination to be the best. By making innovations we must run to the point where we really should be. Because, we have already missed the Industrial Revolution, but we now have the opportunity to catch the digital revolution. If we use digital revolution a good way, I truely believe, through university-industry collaboration, Turkey will soon ramp. We must be a producing generation. As a university, we encourage students to develop projects for production. 6 years ago President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked whether there is a brave to produce domestic cars. And, I said, 'We must be this brave fellow', and we rolled up our sleeves. We produced the local car and got our patent as ‘Babayiğit the local car'”.
Faced with intense interest of the participants after the speech Binali Yıldırım, posed to everyone for individual photos.
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