Dear friends, exportation is the driving force to reach our growth and employment goals.

Determination of the exportation growth in the medium-term program, above the increase in imports indicates that an export increase is aimed to keep the current deficit under control.

With the help of God, we have already cleared the hurdle of $ 150 billion that has become a psychological limit.

Now we are looking for ways to move fast towards our $ 500 billion export target.

We must continue expanding the works that match the import and export profiles of the countries with export opportunities of our cities and address the target markets.

The dissemination of Turkish Trade Centers and the activities of the Turkey Promotion Agency are valuable both for the easy access of potential buyers and for the management of our reputation abroad.

Now, in our promotional activities, we must go beyond providing full page advertisements to foreign newspapers and convincingly show the support of our country in the field of investment and foreign trade.

In order the growth to redound on the life, support social well-being and not to consist only of numbers; it has to reflect credit upon employment.

An increase of over one million in employment is foreseen every year in the medium-term program.

In fact, the employment increase in our country has always been high in the last 15 years.

Especially because the young and female labor force participation level is very strong, the unemployment decrease rates have been slow.

Based on this experience, we have to aim for the sky about the employment.

In fact, employment does not just mean finding a job and earning money.

Every new male, female or young employment means more peaceful individuals, families, society and country.

As Mehmet Akif Ersoy Says; “Whoever does not win bread in this world, is a disgrace to his friend, a laughing-stock of his enemy.”

Dear youth, in the George Orwell’s Animal Farm, he criticize an order in which some are more equal, such as a world that limits the United Nations Security Council with 5 countries.

It is meaningful. The same criticism can be made for a world that justifies the growth of the finance sector on its own account or does not consider the refugees as human.

In another George Orwell’s book he says; “Unemployment of a father, beyond a certain income not entering the house, means that his children cannot participate in the game, his wife loses reputation, and that he can no longer go out in public anymore.

As we mentioned at every opportunity ‘Let the man live so the state lives’, we should never forget that each figure we express statistically is a person with himself, his wife, his children and his surroundings.

With this understanding, we have to pay particular attention to every issue that touches the lives of our people, from unemployment insurance to old-age pensions, from social assistance to active workforce programs.

The economic success that does not increase employment has no value for us.

For this reason, we have started a struggle with the economic troubles that we have experienced recently through an employment-oriented understanding.

We know that the proactive economic model implemented has slightly increased our budget deficit.

The programs of the years ahead will be implemented again to fiscal discipline with due attention.

I believe however that a political economy that does not have people in it and make people happy; does not make any sense, even if all the figures and targets are met.