Salih Tunar, President of the Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Industry and a committee of members went to Syria.

The following people spent 4 days there:
Salih Tunar – The President of CTCI
Musa Sonmezler - Vice President
Mustafa Gunduz – General Secretary
Sali Ozler, Dervis Tarimer, Ozgun Kutalmis – Board members

Adana Chamber of Commerce organized the meeting and invited CTCI. Adapazari Chamber of Industry and Chamber of Commerce were there, too.
In the committee there was Governor of Adana, M. Cahit Kıraç and Mayor of Ada-pazarı. In the group, there were 4 buses that have taken all the visitors. Firstly, Aleppo Chamber of Commerce was visited. Salih Tunar, President of CTCI, Mustafa Gunduz, General Secretary and Musa Sonmezler, Vice President was at the visit.
Salih Tunar, President of CITO made a speech during the visit and said that visit was happened by the invitation of peer Chamber ATO. He said from then on there will be regular visits to ALEPPO from CTCI. In order to develop the business contacts be-tween North Cyprus and Syria, old ferryboat lines should be repeated. As Turkish Cypriots are the supporters of solution, it is not fair to have isolations continuing.
Tunar invited Aleppo Chamber of Commerce to the next year’s fair.
Salih Al Malllah, President of ALEPPO said it was a short visit, so he said he wants a separate visit from CTCI.
Ali Kemal Aydin, Aleppo Consulate of Turkey accompanied the group at their visits. He said he would be glad to supply the needs in order to improve the cooperation with Aleppo.
The group visited Hama Chamber of Commerce. Both Presidents mentioned that they would be appreciated to improve their relations and start the old ferry system again.
On the same they a visit made to Humus Chamber of Commerce. An invitation to fair made to them, too. They accepted to come. Humus Chamber of Commerce and ATO became peer Chambers.
After that, a visit made to Sam Chamber of Commerce and they were happy to have CTIC. They said they would like to have more contacts. They exchanged plagues for the memory of the day.
Before leaving to Cyprus CTCI, a visit made to ATO and they were invited to the fair of 2006. Other Chambers were enlightened as well. As a first step there should be more students from Syria to Cyprus.

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