In the last couple of years “globalization” is the primary concept that we feel all its effects in all areas of our lives. It is a process which defines the spread of some common economic, social, cultural and political values all around the world which passes over local and national borders.
Above: You see Süleyman Demirel - 9th President of the Turkish Republic and one of the founders of the Eurasian Economic Summits together with Dr. Þahap Kocatopçu - Dean of the Marmara Foundation and Dr. Akkan Suver - President of the Marmara Foundation at the 90th Birthday of Dr. Kocatopçu
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its political and economic system both in the developed and developing countries’ policies started to get similar to each other. Public economy and its functions started to be reidentified, the role of the state in the economy started to be limited and market economy started to run more easily. As a natural outcome of this “liberal economy” and its “free market system” became the new dominant economic system of the world.
You see in the picture: (R) H.E. Jususf Kalamperovic - Minister of Interior of Montenegro and (L)Minister of State of Azerbaijan H.E. Nazým Ýbrahimov with H.E. Ali Hasanov - Executive Presidential Staff of Azerbaijan at the 9th Eurasian Economic Summit
In
the political field “democracy” became a
global value of the world. Old authoritarian
and totalitarian regimes replaced with
democratic administrations.
As the world gets global we started to find
ourselves in another process which is “regionalism”.
Apart from the military alliances, with the
collapse of the communist system, countries
in the same region started to build up
economic, political and social cooperations
and alliances.
Marmara Foundation’s Eurasian Economic Summits turned into very strategic meeting for the region, started on 13-15 May 1998 as “The First Turkic States Summit”
Today we witness trade integration and
cooperation in three different continents:
European Union on Europe, North Atlantic
Free Trade Agreement in America (NAFTA) and
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in
Asia.
Turkey stands in geography in the middle of
these Post-Cold War developments. While
Europe is moving on the way to economic,
cultural and political unity a new concept
emerged from the east: “Eurasian Unity”.
Because of its historical and cultural
connections with the region this new
emerging concept has great importance for
Turkey.
With its Eurasian Economic Summits which
continues for 9 years, Marmara Foundation
took the responsibility of constructing and
strengthening the concept “Eurasia”.
The 9th Eurasian Economic Summit took place on 8-10 May, in Istanbul participated by 3 former presidents, 2 Vice Prime Ministers and 11 Ministers from 30 different countries. You see above some of these participants with the authorities of the Marmara Foundation
“Eurasian Economics Summits” is the effort
to realize the heritage of Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk which is “peace, stability and
cooperation in the Caucasus, Middle Asia and
Middle East”
Marmara Foundation with the Eurasian
Economic Summits aims to encourage joint
investments, improvement of the mutual trade,
coordination of the regional capital markets,
stock and mine exchanges and addition to all
these the improvement of the relations among
the nations, cultures and different values.
First of the Eurasian Economic Summits took
place 9 years before with the participation
of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and
Turkmenistan, on 13-15 May 1998. From this
starting point to the 9th Eurasian Economic
Summit, on 8-10 May 2006 Summits became the
highest level meeting in the region realized
by an NGO.
As an outcome of long and meticulous studies Eurasian Economic Summits started to be identified as the “civil United Nations”
Addition to 3 former presidents, 2 Vice Prime Ministers, 11 Ministers, 9th Eurasian Economic Summit is attended by national and foreign parliamentarians, leaders of NGOs, representatives from private sector, former general and more than 400 other representatives.