Ayvalik Ticaret Odasi

Consisting of 23 members elected every four years and represented in official capacities by a president, the ACOC Assembly is the organization’s main decision-making, regulatory and auditing body. It approves the chamber’s annual budget, all internal regulations and decisions presented by ACOC’s professional committees, in addition to having the authority to punish and settle disputes.

AHMET ŞEFİK SÜNER
PRESIDENT

CENGİZ AYKANAT
VICE PRESIDENT

HÜSEYİN ŞALMANLI
MEMBER SECRETARY

BENHAN İBRAHİM KANTARCI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIRMAN

MEHMET KURAN

BOARD OF DIRECTORS VICE CHAIRMAN

İBRAHİM SAKALLI

BOARD OF DIRECTORS VICE CHAIRMAN

MUSTAFA BÜYÜKÇIVGIN

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ACCOUNTANT MEMBER

HALİL CEVDET KANTARCI

YÖNETİM KURULU ÜYESİ

ZEYNEP KÜRŞAT ALUMUR

YÖNETİM KURULU ÜYESİ

MEHMET SEZAİ MADRA

YÖNETİM KURULU ÜYESİ

CAFER ÇAYLAN

AHMET POLAT

ALİ RIZA SOKOL

ALİ SADAN

AYSUN UYGUN

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MEHMET ÇALIŞICI

MEHMET SALİH IŞIK

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MEHMET SIRAY

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SUAT AKIN

OSMAN MURAT ÖZEK

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AYDIN ŞENSAL

MAHMUT EKİNCİ

Board of Directors

Ayvalık Chamber Of Commerce's (ACOC) Board of Directors acts as the organization's executive body. It consists of 7 elected members who serve four-year terms withing the assemly. The board's main function is overseeing ACOC's administrative needs to ensure the organization is working in the best general interest of the chamber. This includes preparing the annual business program and budget, assessing proposals and demands from all interested parties and rulling over all appointments, promotions and terminations within the administrative organization. Also, ACOC's Board of Directors is the organization's official legal representative and has the authority to enforce the regulations and by laws outlined by the assembly.

	Benhan Ibrahim KANTARCI Chairman
Mehmet KURAN Vice Chairman		İbrahim SAKALLI Vİce Chairman
Mustafa BÜYÜKÇIVGIN Accountant Member		Halil Cevdet KANTARCI Member
Zeynep Kürşat ALUMUR Member		Mehmet Sezai MADRA Member

Chairman

A MESSAGE FROM CHAIRMAN

A deep-rooted history, with a rich background

Circa 1800, Ayvalık had a prime importance as a trading town and was recognized as one of the most important seaports of Anatolia’s Aegean coast, coming in second to Izmir. Whether a chamber of commerce existed in Ayvalık at the time remains a mystery. What we know for a fact is that Ayvalık Chamber of Commerce was established in 1923…In other words; our Chamber and the Turkish Republic were founded in the same year…

Being the inheritors of such a deep-rooted history with a rich background enhances our commitment and strengthens our determination towards achieving our set goals.

Our mission and goals are clearly set and haven’t changed in nature since day one: Ensuring the improvement of life quality by leading the drive for the conservation of Ayvalık’s natural, cultural and historical heritage and maximally contributing to its economy…We therefore develop and implement our projects and carry out all activities by always keeping this perspective in sight.

Here at Ayvalık Chamber of Commerce, we attach great importance to our relations with our members… Our motto is to serve all our members equally and impartially while maintaining a healthy relationship through effective communication and strive to meet their individual needs. Given that prompt access to information is a prerequisite of the Information Age, we pay utmost attention to promptly process the information and duly share it with our members.

THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND AYVALIK’S ECONOMIC BOOM:

TOURISM & OLIVE OIL

Ayvalık is a city of paramount importance in a special geographic location. This city exudes a genuine spirit with her rich background, unique nature, cultural potential, products with brand value, exceptional cuisine and cultivated inhabitants…These are the very qualities that naturally places the city to the top of “must-see” places.

Meanwhile, tourism known as the service industry is Turkey’s leading sector and reached a prestigious status with 29 million tourist hosting capacity and a substantial income of 23 billion USD. It is therefore our duty to ensure Ayvalık receives her share from the sector, thus we must indispensably put tourism first while planning our city’s present and future.

Ayvalık is the “Olive Capital”. Olive oil holds a special importance for its economy. We could easily say that olive oil is the second driving force that helps the city prosper.

Ayvalık Chamber of Commerce set out on a mission with this perspective in sight and we are proud to be granted a “Geographical Indication” certificate for Ayvalık’s olive oil at the end of a three-year process. Our major goal was to cement the quality of our olive oil that retained a well-deserved reputation so as to realize our dream of seeing Ayvalık olive oil among internationally acclaimed brands.

We are very happy to have finally succeeded in our mission of making Ayvalık olive oil an original brand.

MANAGEMENT WITH TRANSPARENCY & INTEGRITY,

EXPEDITIOUS & SOLUTION ORIENTED SERVICING

Ayvalık and Lesvos face each other across the Aegean Sea… There is always a “high-speed” traffic between the coasts. We are building a commercial bridge that grows stronger by the day connecting us to the inhabitants and businessmen of Lesvos. We aim to gradually strengthen the foundations of this bridge.

Extending an invitation to the investors to come to Ayvalık is another headline for us. This is the only way we can secure a multi-directional and permanent growth.

We strongly believe that the finalization of industrial area structure planning without delay will change our city’s fate. To that end, we intensified our efforts and continued work in that area.

Ayvalık Chamber of Commerce is following its own path without compromising any of its principles. Our Executive Board, Assembly and staff are on duty working in harmony with the main principles of transparency, integrity, solution-oriented & expeditious servicing…

I hereby salute all our members and wish you all peace and prosperity.

BENHAN İBRAHİM KANTARCI

Ayvalık Chamber of Commerce

Chairman

Secretary General

Ahmet BAÇ
General Secretary

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Phone: 0 266 3121517- 10

DUTIES

To attend Assembly and Executive Board meetings provided that he refrains from voting,
To follow and finalize the decisions taken by various bodies and to ensure their timely fulfilment,
To arrange and sign machinery registration certificates, certificates of capacity and analysis, ATR/EUR 1 movement certificates,
To offer suggestions to the Executive Board for the hiring, promotion, rewarding or dismissal of Chamber staff,
To monitor the Chamber staff’s work performance; brief & instruct the staff members
To submit the obligatory expenses to the approval of the Executive Board and duly inform the board on the expenses on a weekly basis
To prepare a rough draft of the Chamber’s internal directives and submit it to the Executive Board,
To use the delegated powers authorised by the Executive Board,
To carry out duties assigned by the Assembly, The Executive Board or the Chairman of the Executive Board,
To conduct communication & media operations
To record the clients’ claims, expectations and complaints,
To file a nonconforming product report for any inconsistencies that may occur during the operations,
To manage and organize administrative affairs and internal operations of the Chamber,
To gather all necessary information & documentation and draw up the certificates to be issued by the Chamber
To make all necessary preparations that will constitute the basis for the agendas of the Executive Board, Assembly and Professional Committee meetings; to ensure timely distribution of the invitiations and agenda to the Chamber members, to issue the minutes of the meetings, to keep a record of the decision summaries and ensure that they are duly signed, to track & file meeting attendance sheets, to store the official minutes books, the decision summaries and the electronic recording of the meetings
To carry out operations and perform required tasks for the elections
To make out Tender Invoices, Healthcare Invoices, documents of Market Price, Commercial and Industrial Good Sampling Qualifications, Arbitration, Expert reports, documents that verify the registration & credentials of the signatories mentioned in warranties and letters of undertaking, Certificates of Allocation & Expenditure, Certificates of Origin, Force Majeure Certificates, Documents of commercial and industrial nature, Aval Endorsement, Quality Conformity Certificate, Certificate of Approval for Sample Qualifications, Domestic Goods Certificate, Commerce Registration Copy, Member ID’s, Maximum Demand Tariff, Documents submitted as per written inquiries about the Chamber members’ records provided they are of non-confidential nature and not presumed as Certificate of Good Standing, Documents for Price Forecasting and Estimated Costs, Commercial Usage Certificates, copies of Turkish Trade Registry Gazette
To carry out Export and Import procedures and duly sign the paper work
To prepare and duly sign necessary documentation showing turnover rates, sweep rates and rates of yield
To carry out proceedings pertaining to the Right to Information Act.

Accounting

Nilgün ARSLAN

Accounting Officer

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Phone: 0266 3121517- 11

DUTIES

To assess and collect annual and additional membership fees regulated in accordance with the law no. 5174
To check and gather records of the average daily balance from the relevant banks, to prepare reports showing all bank accounts, to make the cash flow projections, to carry out repo & deposit account transactions, to conduct bank reconciliations at the end of each month
To prepare monthly balance sheets, financial statements and year-end balance sheets, to submit the said sheets to the approval of the Secretary General and the Executive Board of Directors, and to bind & archive the balance sheets and statements following their approval in accordance with the accounting regulations
To ensure preparation, organization and archiving of property and inventory records
To prepare income-expense budget proposals and submit them to Secretariat General, to monitor budgetary practices, to provide justification for budget allocations to the Executive Board via the Secretary General.
To follow up the Chamber’s expenses in compliance with the Chamber’s instructions given by the Chamber Management and to ensure timely payment of all dues.
To make all due payments pertaining to taxes, charges, insurance, fees et cetera on behalf of the Chamber
To conduct all purchasing activities
To number each page of the General Ledger and the daybook and ensure that they are notarized.
To prepare employee payrolls, premiums and overtime rolls and effect all accrued payments

Trade Registry

Tolgahan ÖZGÜNER

Trade Registry Officer

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Phone: 0266 3121517- 12

DUTIES

To carry out the tasks of Trade Register
To draw up, sign and archive Trade Registry Certificates, Certificates of Registry and any certificate assumed to be issued by the Ministeries
To carry out and sign any correspondence with courts and other official institutions
Carry out tasks as stipulated by law, regulations and similar legislation
Carry out Commercial Registry Certification procedures

Documentation/Quality

Korhan VAROL
Documentation Officer
Quality Coordinator

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Phone : 0266 3121517- 13

DUTIES

To draw up documents pertaining to Market Price, Domestic Goods Certificate, Commerce Registration Copy, Member ID’s, Maximum Demand Tariff, Documents submitted as per written inquiries about the Chamber members’ records provided they are of non-confidential nature and not presumed as Certificate of Good Standing, Documents for Price Forecasting and Estimated Costs, Commercial Usage Certificates
To make copies of Turkish Trade Registry Gazette
To finalize all procedures required for issuing the bill of sale granted by TAPDK (Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Authority).
To draw up documents pertaining to Bağ-Kur (Social Security Fund for Artisans and the Self-Employed) and SSK (Social Security Authority)
To compile the Chamber Members’ files
Registration and distribution of Incoming-outgoing correspondence
To provide assistance in matters related to the Elections.
To create, maintain and update the Chamber’s web site.
To gather all necessary information & documentation and draw up the certificates to be issued by the Chamber
To prepare and duly sign necessary documentation showing turnover rates, sweep rates and rates of yield
To ensure compliance to ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System requirements in the capacity of Quality Managament Representative and co-ordinate any related activity.
To ensure full compliance to the requirements of the Accreditation System as the individual in charge of Accreditation, keeping other members of the staff posted on the work carried out in this area, to co-ordinate, monitor & regulate the work of the staff members related to the subject of Accreditation.