Rustam Minnikhanov meets with heads of Turkish major industrial enterprises
30 May 2014, Friday
On May 30, during his working trip to Turkey, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Board Chairman of Çukurova Makina Ali Samsa Karamehmet.
Çukurova Makina (Çukurova Group) produces industrial equipment for engineering, construction, transport and energy sectors. Çukurova Group includes 139 companies, including 19 with foreign investments. Total turnover of the holding makes 4 billion dollars per year.
Founded in 1968, the company produced agricultural and forestry machinery under license of an American corporation John Deere. In 2001, Cumitas plant and German company Liebherr started producing excavators. Currently, 2000 units of machinery are produced at the plant. Since 2010, the company has cooperated with OAO “PO ElAZ” (Tatarstan).
Later the same day, Rustam Minnikhanov visited Koluman plant, and met with Board Chairman of Koluman holding Mustafa Koluman. Founded in 1965, Koluman company is the shareholder of Mercedes-Benz and is one of top 100 Turkish companies. Total turnover of the holding is 582 million Euro.
Rustam Minnikhanov invited Mustafa Koluman to the opening of Turkish companies in Tatarstan, said that he is interested in locating Koluman facilities in the republic, and promised to render support in project implementation.
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.
On 27 March, speaking at a ceremonial event dedicated to celebrations of the Day of Russian National Guard held at the Kazan City Hall with participation of the Chief of the Office of the Staff of the Rais of the republic Asgat Safarov, heads of law-enforcement bodies of the republic and veterans and employees of the territorial Directorate of the National Guard, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian National Guard Directorate for the republic Republic of Tatarstan is traditionally acknowledged as one of the best in the country.