PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
 

I am extremely saddened that I had to respond to the statements of the Minister of Culture and Tourism against our institution and myself in his own style...

It is not desirable that a sectoral discussion has reached a level that the sector does not deserve. In order to discuss sectoral issues, one needs to be informed. But we understand that Mr. Minister has a long way to go in this regard.
 

Mr. Minister called TÜRSAB an “NGO”!
Despite being a minister for so many years, the Minister is unable to distinguish between NGOs and professional organizations in the nature of public institutions. TÜRSAB, a professional organization with fifteen thousand members in tourism, is the largest tourism organization known and exemplary worldwide. To equate our professional association, which is a public institution, with associations in an effort to trivialize and trivialize it is ignorance, if it is not intentional.
 

His statement also shows that the Minister's knowledge of the concept of “public order” is not sufficient. If, as he says, TÜRSAB was an NGO and not a professional association in the nature of a public institution, the Ministry Inspectors who have been working inside the institution for years would not be able to inspect the institution.

Mr. Minister said, “No one would become a member of TÜRSAB if they did not have to”!
Membership to Chambers of Commerce, Bar Associations and similar professional organizations is required by law. Just like tourism facilities are affiliated to our Ministry...
We should ask him; if there was no obligation to obtain a certificate, would a single tourism facility have obtained a certificate from the Ministry?
It is also necessary to ask the Minister why he does not make payments to the TGA, which he runs like a shop, on a voluntary basis!

The Minister said “TÜRSAB stinks”!
Could it be that those “bad smells” that you could not find in us despite all the forced inspections are mainly due to the allocations and advantages you gave to your companies during your term as Minister?

Honestly, we wonder what these outrageous and unkind remarks of yours are preparations for, what they are flares for. It seems that Mr. Minister has not given up his personal obsession of dividing and destroying TÜRSAB and is preparing for a new attack.

Mr. Minister is persistently trying to present his personal enmity as a state issue.

He continues to insist on bringing our institution and our Ministry against each other due to his personal enmity. Although we have visited many times, he is the only Minister of Tourism in the history of the Republic of Turkey who has not visited TÜRSAB even once.
While the sector has dozens of problems waiting for solutions, especially vision, there is not a single person in the state and the sector who does not know the hostility of Mr. Minister to TÜRSAB and its President!
Since the day he became a minister, he has been hostile to the professional organization established by law for his personal benefit!

This is how he goes down in history!

By using public power, he has destroyed the tourism sector,
The media industry using the power of advertising,
A government with statistics that are exaggerated even while reflecting the usual increase, with statistics that do not compare at all with competitors,
He does not stop misleading for his own personal gain.
 

The truth of the matter is as follows:

Mr. Minister is uncomfortable with the struggle of TÜRSAB for the rights of 15 thousand travel agencies against the monopoly created by its own companies and brands in domestic tourism and the existence of travel agencies.
In the anger of not being able to break our unity despite all these attacks, when all his attempts, including unlawful attacks on our personal commercial affairs, did not yield results, he brought it to the point of calling the 52-year-old professional association “rotten”.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you once again: TÜRSAB will not submit to this domination you have created over the sector and will continue to fight your unfair competition and monopoly.
 

Mr. Minister should know this;

We see tourism as a national issue and direct our criticisms accordingly. This is why we oppose wrongdoings.

Mr. Minister likes hotel associations, which are NGOs, and tries to show them as the real representatives of tourism. Because they are unable to voice any truth because of the guillotine hanging over their large investments and facilities, because they are crushed at every negative determination and because they do not have a professional organization to defend them.
We will continue to say what we know, to be the voice of the sector, and to put forward the truth against being misled against an understanding that puts only its own mind instead of the common mind.

You can't cover up the facts that everyone knows about tourism by pointing fingers left and right!

We believe that the state mind, especially Mr. President Erdoğan, will stand by the truth.

Firuz B. BAĞLIKAYA
TÜRSAB President of the Board of Directors