Earliest Cornerstones of the Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations

The primary foundations of the Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations were laid in a meeting of 6 leading employer unions of the young Republic of Turkey in Istanbul.

• Metalware Industrialists’ Union
• Istanbul Wood Industry Employers’ Union
• Istanbul Textile Industry Employers’ Union
• Istanbul Food Industry Employers’ Union
• Istanbul Printing Industry Employers’ Union
• Istanbul Glass Industry Employers’ Union

Through the collaboration of these institutions, “Istanbul Employer Unions Association“ was founded.

Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations

Thanks to the fast and comprehensive organizational effort by employers nationwide, the title of the association was changed to “Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations” by resolution of the General Board at the 2nd Ordinary General Meeting held on 20 December 1962.   To this date, TİSK remains to be the sole confederation representing employers in the country.

In Turkey, the foundations of contemporary relations between workers and employers were laid by the 1962 Constitution which granted the workers and employers the rights to establish unions, sign collective labour agreements, conduct strikes and lockouts.

TİSK Extraordinary General Meeting

Istanbul Chamber of Industry

TİSK 10th Founding Anniversary

TİSK 12th General Board

TİSK 14th General Board

TİSK 23rd General Board

TİSK 24th General Board

Collective Labour Agreement

Employers and workers unions and confederations continue their activities in accordance with Act No. 6356 on Collective Labour Agreements, Strikes and Lockouts issued in 2012.

TİSK 25th General Board

TİSK 56th Founding Anniversary

TİSK’s New Chair of the Board of Directors is Özgür Burak Akkol

TİSK 27th Ordinary General Board Meeting was held on December 28, 2019 in Ankara. Özgür Burak Akkol was appointed as the Chair of the Board of Directors. Nevzat Seyok, Celal Koloğlu and Suat were appointed as the Vice Chairs of the Board of Directors at TİSK.

Ertan İren, Ali Cüneyt Arpacıoğlu, Erhan Polat, Levent Kocagül, Mehmet Naci İlci, Bora Koçak, Celal Kaya, Ahmet Bayraktar, Zekeriya Sancı, İmran Okumuş, Metin Demir, Mustafa Taşkın, F. Fethi Hinginar, Cengiz Taş, Tansel Özenbay, Nadir Yürüktümen, Bekir Burak Uyguner and Adnan Çiçek were appointed as the Members of the new Board of Directors at TİSK.

Ramazan Yön, Erol Bakan, Aydın Fethi Baytan were elected to the Supervisory Board; Osman Nemli, Recep Şükrü Ergün, Erkan Muharrem Kafadar, Oğuzhan Gürsoy and Bahise Kurt were elected to the Disciplinary Board.