In the opening speech at Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Erdogan said: “We have to focus our attention on projects for boosting trade among us.<\/p>\n
“To improve economic and commercial cooperation among us is essential to offer our people a prosperous life as they deserve,” he said. “So, we have to find ways to use programs such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and COMCEC in more efficient ways.<\/p>\n
“Our duty is to transform the Islamic geography into an important production basin with measures aimed at boosting economic, technological and cultural progress. We have to form a model for it,” he added.<\/p>\n
Considering the opportunities brought by the important population of the Muslim world and its underground resources, Erdogan said: “Our main concern is to use these riches.”<\/p>\n
As the highest ministerial platform for the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) — the second largest inter-governmental organization after the UN — the COMCEC aims to improve economic and commercial relations among member countries.<\/p>\n
The organization has its headquarters in Ankara and is chaired by Erdogan.<\/p>\n
It was established during the 3rd Islamic Summit held in 1981 and became operational in 1984.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged Muslim countries to favor a preferential system of trade during the 33rd Ministerial Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC). In the opening speech at Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Erdogan said: “We have to focus our attention on projects for boosting trade among …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,68,51,118,101],"tags":[77735,1153],"class_list":["post-59608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-economy","category-hot","category-politics","tag-comcec","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}