Kıbrıs Türk İnşaat Müteahhitleri Birliği (KTİMB) Başkanı Cafer Gürcafer, Birlik üyelerinden Afik Grup Direktörü Simon Aykut’un tutuklanmasını “provokatif girişim” olarak niteledi ve bu durumun Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Genel Sekreteri Antonio Guterres’in Kıbrıs Kişisel Temsilcisi María Angela Holguín Cuéllar’ın görüşme masasını oluşturmaya çalıştığı bu günlerde iki toplum arasında gerginlik yaratmaktan başka hiçbir işe yaramayacağını kaydetti.

“Görüşme masası sürekli bir el tarafından havaya uçuruluyor”

Gürcafer, konuya ilişkin yazılı açıklamasında şu ifadeleri kullandı:

“Oluşturulmaya çalışılan masa sürekli bir el tarafından havaya uçuruluyor ve devamında hem kuzey kamuoyu hem güney kamuoyu içerisinde aklıselimi değil fanatizmi tırmandıran bir hal alarak çözüm zemini değil çözümsüzlüğü derinleşmesine hizmet ediyor.

“Umarım bu provokatif girişim barışa hassasiyet duyan tüm kesimlerce doğru değerlendirilsin”

Simon Aykut’un tutuklanmasının Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Genel Sekreteri Antonio Guterres’in Kıbrıs Kişisel Temsilcisi María Angela Holguín Cuéllar’ın görüşme masasını oluşturmaya çalıştığı bu günlerde iki toplum arasında gerginlik yaratmaktan başka hiçbir işe yaramayacağını iyi biliyoruz. Umarım bu provokatif girişim barışa hassasiyet duyan tüm kesimlerce doğru değerlendirilsin.

“Süreci yakinen takip edeceğiz ve gerekli adımları atacağız”

Simon Aykut çok uzun yıllardır burada yaşayan ve iş dünyası içerisinde bulunan birisidir. Ayrıca KKTC vatandaşıdır ve Kıbrıs Türk İnşaat Müteahhitleri Birliği’nin (KTİMB) bir üyesidir. Süreci yakinen takip edeceğiz ve gerekli adımları atacağız.”

Şampiyon Melekleri Yaşatma Derneği Başkanı Ruşen Yücesoylu Karakaya ve heyeti, Kıbrıs Türk İnşaat Müteahhitleri Birliği’ne (KTİMB) dün ziyaret gerçekleştirdi.

Dernek Başkanı Ruşen Yücesoylu Karakaya, Şampiyon Melekler Anıt Mezar Projesi’nin hayata geçirilmesinde KTİMB’nin desteğinin çok büyük olduğunu kaydederek emeği geçen her bir bireye teşekkür etti.

Karakaya, Şampiyon Melekleri Yaşatma Derneği’nin eğitim odaklı çalışmalara ağırlık verdiğini, yeni ve güvenli okullar inşa etmek gibi projeleri olduğunu kaydetti.

Uygun çalışma koşullarına sahip bir dernek binasının inşası için de çalışmaları bulunduğunu belirten Karakaya, KTİMB’nin bu süreçte de destek ve katkılarına ihtiyaç duyulduğunu ifade etti.

Kıbrıs Türk İnşaat Müteahhitleri Birliği (KTİMB) Başkanı Cafer Gürcafer ise “çocuklarımızın anılarını yaşatmak için üretilecek her projede Kurum olarak destek olmaya devam edeceğiz” diye konuştu.

Cafer Gürcafer, President of the Cypriot Turkish Building Contractors Association (CTBCA), stated that the objection to the minimum wage was not an objection made as the common voice of the CTBCA and employer organizations, and said, “We will not accept being declared as an enemy of workers, yet again, just because someone has set out to engage in populism.”

Gürcafer noted that the State cannot discriminate among its own workers and stated that it is not appropriate to treat permanent public employees uniquely and everyone else as if they exist under different conditions.

Cafer Gürcafer stated that while there is a mechanism that determines the cost of living of public employees, there is also another commission that specify the cost of living of ordinary workers and attempting to make any assessment as if those people exist under different conditions; is an outdated populist approach.

Noting that the State’s employee wage policy should be evaluated within the context of the economy as a whole and that this policy should be brought together via a structure that includes permanent staff experts in addition to non-governmental organization representatives, as stakeholders. Gürcafer also emphasized the need for reform.

CTBCA President Cafer Gürcafer said, “We need a strong body that works on wage policies within the entirety of the economy, not one that just determines the cost of living. It is high time for reform in this regard. The State should put an end to this outdated structure as soon as possible and institute regulations that will meet the real need,” he said.

Kıbrıs Türk İnşaat Müteahhitleri Birliği (KTİMB) Başkanı Cafer Gürcafer, asgari ücrete yapılan itirazın KTİMB ve de işveren örgütlerinin ortak sesi olarak yapılmış bir itiraz olmadığını belirterek “birileri popülizm yapacak diye bir kez daha işçi düşmanı ilan edilmeyi kabul etmeyiz” ifadelerini kullandı.

“Kamuda kadrolu çalışana başka, onun dışında kalanlara başka uygulama yapılması doğru  değil”

Gürcafer, devletin kendi emekçileri arasında ayırım yapamayacağını kaydederek, kamuda kadrolu çalışanına başka, onun dışında kalan herkese sanki farklı koşullara sahiplermiş gibi başka uygulama yapmasının doğru olmadığını belirtti.

Cafer Gürcafer, kamu çalışanlarının hayat pahalılığını belirleyen bir mekanizma varken emekçilerin alacağı hayat pahalılığını belirleyecek olan başka bir komisyonun olmasının ve sanki farklı koşullarda yaşayan insanlarmış gibi değerlendirme yapmaya çalışmasının çağ dışı kalmış popülist bir yaklaşım olduğunu dile getirdi.

“Ekonominin bütünlüğü içerisinde ücret politikalarını çalışan güçlü bir organa ihtiyacımız var”

Devletin çalışan ücret politikasının ekonominin bütünü içerisinde değerlendirilmesi ve paydaş sivil toplum örgüt temsilcilerine ek olarak sürekliliği olan kadrolu uzmanların da olduğu bir yapıya kavuşturulması gerektiğini ifade eden Gürcafer, reform gerekliliğine vurgu yaptı.

KTİMB Başkanı Cafer Gürcafer, “hayat pahalılığını belirleyen değil ekonominin bütünlüğü içerisinde ücret politikalarını çalışan güçlü bir organa ihtiyacımız var. Bu hususta reform yapmanın zamanı çoktan gelmiştir. Devlet bir an önce çağdışı kalmış bu yapıya son verip gerçek ihtiyaca cevap verecek düzenlemeyi yapmalıdır” dedi.

The 18th Ordinary General Assembly of the Cyprus Turkish Building Contractors Association (CTBCA) was held. Cafer Gürcafer was re-elected as president.

At the General Assembly, the members of the Association also voted in the members of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Disciplinary Committee. Cafer Gürcafer, the only candidate for the Presidency, was re-elected with a unanimous vote.

At the 18th Ordinary General Assembly of the Cyprus Turkish Building Contractors Association, which was held on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 10:00 in the Atatürk Cultural Centre Grand Conference Hall, Fuat Kutlu was elected as the President of the Council, and Mehmet Akal and Cemal M. Bulutoğluları were elected as the Clerks of the Council.

Gürcafer: We are growing both as a sector and as an institution

During his speech at the General Assembly, President of the Cyprus Turkish Building Contractors Association (CTBCA) Cafer Gürcafer, drew attention to the current reality of the State and the country and emphasized the importance of unity and solidarity at this juncture.

Cafer Gürcafer said that the building industry and CTBCA are growing day by day, but the same cannot be said about the State, and noted that this is a grave danger that needs to be taken into account.

Gürcafer said:

“We are growing both in terms of the number of employees, in terms of services we provide to our members and to our sector, and in terms of our influence both as a sector and an institution in the eyes of governments. I am sorry however that I cannot say the same for our State.  Our State is not getting better. We can all see this. Yes, we are corporatizing, we are improving ourselves, we are developing, our companies are developing, we are expanding as a sector, we are making money, but there is something very odd.  While the country as a whole should be developing, we are observing a State with the structure it had in the 80s and 90s, and we are degenerating. Our country is degenerating. Inefficiency in the public sector is rising day by day and has now reached a point where it can no longer be rectified. This is a grave danger that needs to be taken into account.’’

“We are becoming a selfish society”

We are not being populists, we have no expectations, but this country belongs to all of us. In this country, until the 1980s and 1990s, the number of people who believed in social emancipation, remaining in unity and in solidarity, and protecting the country was around 80-90 percent of the population. Today, we have a Turkish Cypriot who has lost its belief in social emancipation and a country and a society that has become selfish and is only trying to save the day. I am sorry, but politics is reflecting exactly the same. Many political parties and many non-governmental organizations behave as such too. We have turned into an abnormally aggressive society due to selfishness and this degeneration. I am very sorry and troubled by this situation.”

“I am afraid, I have very serious doubts whether our country will ever get better”

CTBCA President Cafer Gürcafer stated that he has very little doubt that the new era will be auspicious for the construction industry. “But I have serious doubts that our country will ever get better,” Gürcafer said, adding, “This is why, more than ever, we need the unity and solidarity that we have always observed and safeguarded.”

Gürcafer noted the following: “All successes in history emerged as a result of unity and solidarity. Ataturk’s principles and the War of Independence, which shed a light on the future of all of us and of our children, were realised by Ataturk keeping the nation in unity and in solidarity, and making people believe. Look at any disunity! It always ends in disappointment. We lived through this too. But our most important principle is to preserve our unity and solidarity. We grew as an association because we did not give a chance to those who wanted to divide us.’’

“The world is fast developing and progressing, and unfortunately we are going backwards”

‘’There are some challenges awaiting the Cyprus Turkish Building Contractors Association in the period ahead. There is a public structure which has broken down and unfortunately, there is a political institution that cannot alter or remedy this. It is not a very promising structure with respect to the future of the Turkish Cypriot community, for facilitating an economy that would stand on its own feet, and in terms of preserving the identity of the Turkish Cypriots. The reason; you cannot achieve the desired per capita national income by only eliminating irregularities. Once upon a time, when we stated ‘Germany’s per capita national income is 30 thousand USD’, when ours was around 3-4 thousand USD, we would see 30 thousand dollars as an unattainable figure. However, today there are countries with a per capita national income of 130 thousand USD. Yet, we are still at the same point. The world is developing and progressing truly rapidly, but unfortunately we are going backwards. This is our structure, the state of affairs in our country.”

“In view of the realities of the country, we need us more than we did yesterday”

CTBCA President Cafer Gürcafer pointed out that there is a need for a revolution and reform, but he has concerns at this point.

Gürcafer said that in view of the realities of the state and the country, unity and solidarity are needed more than was needed in the past, and concluded his speech as follows:

“I was one of those people who never lost their faith in the future and believed that a struggle had to be waged even under the worst conditions. Nevertheless, I do not refrain from saying this anymore. I am not observing a political structure which will provide for us a future in the sense we think of. We have degenerated so much, our country has become so corrupt and rotten that we need a revolution and a reform. We need a set of rules, just like Ataturk’s principles and reforms. That is why; let’s have a solution in Cyprus that will integrate us with the world, whether federal, confederal, recognition of the TRNC, or whatever be its name, so that we can join the European Union.

Let the EU step in and set the ground rules for us, let us follow these rules and be saved. Or, let there be a structure that knows what to do the next day, puts all these reforms in place, will fix the country and get us out of this mess. When I gaze to the future, I do not see anything regarding this. There is no such political structure. This is our reality. In view of this fact, we need us more than we did yesterday.

We will hold each other’s hands tighter. We will embrace tighter and protect our own industry, our bread and butter, our employees and our institutions more than yesterday.”

Gürcafer re-elected unanimously as president

After President Cafer Gürcafer’s speech, the presentation and discussion of the Activity and the Financial Reports were undertaken and both the reports were approved and accepted by the General Assembly.

Then, the elections of the President, Board of Directors, Audit Committee and the Disciplinary Committee were held.

While Cafer Gürcafer, the only candidate for the Presidency, was unanimously re-elected as the President, subsequent to the CTBCA’s 18th Ordinary General Assembly elections, the members for the bodies of the Association were chosen as follows.

President:

Cafer Gürcafer

Board of Directors:

Hasan Sertoğlu VİCE-PRESIDENT

Erim Kanlıada     TREASURER

Serkan Amca SECRETARY

Hasan Çerkez ACTIVE MEMBER

Ragıp Tanlı ACTIVE MEMBER

Salih Kayım ACTIVE MEMBER

Ulaş Oktay ASSOCIATE MEMBER

Disciplinary Committee:

Cahit Kaya

Mehmet Kahveci

Musa Türker Sönmezler

Taner Yolcu

Yakup Engin Tel

Audit Committee:

Ahmet Arabacıoğlu

Okan Recaioğlu