Branch Chair

Our strength has never come from the size of our companies, but from the standards we hold in common. When one of our members opens a door, the whole network walks through it.

MÜSİAD UK exists because business people who moved between two countries needed something more durable than individual contacts. What they needed was an institution — one that could speak on their behalf to government, hold its members to a shared standard, and outlast any one of us.

That is the work. We represent our members at the table where UK–Türkiye trade is decided, from ministerial roundtables to the Joint Economic and Trade Committee. We organise our sectors into councils so that regulatory change reaches the companies it affects as practical guidance rather than as news. And we open our network to the next generation, because an association that does not renew itself is a memory.

If you run a business in the United Kingdom and you recognise something of yourself in that, you belong here.

Türkan AKBAŞ
Chairwoman, MÜSİAD UK