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We are the children of the Ottoman Empire: our well-established past,deep history and riches have become disadvantages rather than advantage for us. Therefore, entrepreneurial heritage is not left.

In the latest period of the Ottoman Empire; more of an, entrepreneurship and craft were  in the hands of minority. Wearing  painted shoes, ironed trousers, white collar starched shirt, to have in nice chats, taking a role in state administration, work less, having fun time, and pace with using an umbrella as a walking stick were making us happy.

After established the republic, Veteran Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has made profound changes in Turkish history (the surname law, hat law, establishing Turkish Language Association and Turkish Historical Society etc.) Worked hard on infrastructure work;  has made great social and economic decisions in our poor and tired country and these decision have been implemented in a short time. He has launched a huge production mobilization throughout the country.

The state has undertaken a large part of entrepreneurship in accordance with that day’s conditions.

The state has provided work opportunity to unemployed people and produced basic needs for poor people of his country. As the time progressed, apart from the basic necessities, the state has  began to produce in many sectors towards the big industrial areas starting from the small industry. We see that the state has necessarily undertaken entrepreneurship. While doing these things, It is proven by the importance given to agriculture and livestock  that our farmers are the masters of the nation.

After our republic is established, our country has made great moves in political, social and economic fields and these moves have continued for a while with a fast pace. It was the best of all which  had to be done on that day’s conditions. Due to these circumstances, the spirit of entrepreneurship was not at the desired scale, because conditions were not favorable.

The  entrepreneurship of minorities was in front of the range to be as much as underestimated next to state entrepreneurship.

After World War 2, the minorities have been moved to Israel, Greece, Armenia, developed countries of Europe, United States and Canada. Even we were not willing, we had to do  entrepreneurship and craft by ourself after these migrations. That means, these tasks have been undertaken by us, unwillingly.

 

WE SEE THAT, DUE TO THESE AND SIMILAR REASON AS TURKISH NATION WE ARE LATE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Our entrepreneurial spirit was affected negatively, by crooked urbanization, distorted industrialization and distorted education brought by them, in our country. Our country has had also difficulties to adopted to the rapidly developed countries in political, social and economic terms.

It is mentioned that our country’s economy is governed by a liberal economy. Whereas, the rules of the liberal economy (free market economy) are not fully operational! The conditions that the state is in lead the economy accordingly to this direction and these bring advantage to the state in the short term but  disadvantage over the long term. Inflation, interest rate and exchange rate policy,  these three instruments need to increase or decrease in the same proportion. However, we see that there are no ups and downs on equal proportion, which creates high inflation.

Some factors that negatively affect our entrepreneurship;

We can not plant a seed for a new entrepreneur neither educated nor uneducated (ranker). For instance; in our country, the chance of a  potential entrepreneur  succeeding, when a person graduated from any ‘X’ faculty and starts an entrepreneurial activity with a medium-size capital in any sector after an average age of 25-30, is 20%, however, while he/she is studying from one side If he/she also actively works in the same sector that he/she chose then the chance of success is 90%. Unluckily, because of the distorted education in our country, the work he/she does and the subject he/she studies  are different. Nevertheless, the chances of success are still high, because, he learned life and work by living. Hence he/ she gained experience at high level.

• As a result of terrorism pressure on the people in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, the residents emigrated to the big cities and this almost brings to the point of destruction of agriculture and livestock. Naturally, decrease of existing entrepreneurs and can not breed new generation of entrepreneurs. The military expenses for terrorism and our spiritual lost which came out as a result of terrorism are two of the major reasons.
• Early movement to Liberal Economy, abolition of customs walls.
• Employment is not directly proportional to the population, import meets a need of demand so    we can not train entrepreneurs.

 

İstanbul 2018
VEYSİ BALİN

 

According to the article number ninety of the Notary Law, the above text can not be quoted, it can not be used anywhere, its rights are reserved.

Dear valuable participants, inflation is occurring in all fast-developing countries. However, the dosage is important. Zero inflation (start of recession) is as dangerous as the danger presented by high inflation. However, we are faced with far higher inflation figures than we should have in our country for years. This affects the economic prosperity of our people negatively. Therefore, economy of the country has been affecting also unfavorable.

Our country has been struggling with high inflation for years. We could not overlapped our political and economic policies which must be done and balanced with cycle of economic policies. Therefore, we could not capture employment at the desired size. Because of missing that, unemployment and inflation have become two major problems.

 

Unemployment / Inflation

 

These two viruses feed each other, some factors that bring our country into this situation are as follows:

 

• Economic instability caused by political instability before September,12
• September,12  military coup
• We are governed by the military regime for some time after  September,12  military coup
• After the period of Ozal, the beginning of political instability again (coalition period)
• Major expenditures in the fight against terrorism
• Due to the terrorist pressure in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Region, a large part of the people leave the villages and the fields and move to the districts and the provinces so with this  settlement unemployment occur
• The fact that production is not directly proportional to population, the needs to meet by imports

 

SOLUTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION IS; PRODUCTION AND EXPORT

Urgent prescription, for these two main problems will be solved by giving importance and support to the sectors which I will explain below.

 

SECTORS

 

• Textile and ready-made garment
• Leather garment
• Agriculture & Livestock, Seafood
• Furniture (Home & Office)
• Education / Training (Secret Export)
• Health (Secret Export)
• Tourism and Winter Tourism

 

If these sectors are given the necessary support and encouragement, we will increase production and exports quickly. In this way, the inflation and unemployment problem of the country’s economy will be solved.

 

Structural state of our country makes these sectors successful which are mentioned above.

 

Examples :

• Unemployment in our country is at the highest level and we have a young population
• Even it is based on master-apprentice relations, there is an infrastructure in these sectors
• These sectors are based on labor intensive but are not capital
• The geographical position of our country, having a colorful clime and being surrounded by the  sea on three sides
• Our country is a bridge position between Asia and Europe
• Being a convenient country for agriculture and livestock
• Most importantly, the human factor is in the first row of these sectors

 

 

THE RESULT OF THESE FACTORS İNDICATE HOW OUR COUNTRY IS EFFICENT

 

a) We have a fertile population

b) Naturally, the structural fertility of our country in these sectors

 

 

 

WE NEED TO INCREASE OUR PRODUCTIVITY  FURTHER WITH COMBINE THESE TWO FACTORS MUCH

WHEN WE DO THAT

 WE WILL SEE SKYROCKETING OF OUR ECONOMY

AND HERE IN TURKEY

SHE REACHS THE POWER ENOUGH TO FEED 200 MILLION

I WOULD RATHER BE IN TODAY’S SITUATION

INSTEAD OF BEING A COUNTRY STRONG IN THE ECONOMY WİTH POPULATION OF 30 MILLION

BEING STRONG IN THE ECONOMY ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH.

TURKEY SHOULD HAVE 200 MILLION  POPULATION BECAUSE OF HER POWER IN THE WORLD AND HER ACREAGE IN FIELD

IT WILL BE A GREAT BALANCE IN PEACE AND POLITICS IN THE WORLD AS MUCH AS IT IS BENEFICIAL FOR OUR COUNTRY

INSTEAD OF SPENDING TIME ON LIMITATION OF POPULATION, SPENDING TIME ON PRODUCTION AND EXPORT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER. THUS, CHILDBIRTH IS ALSO TAKEN UNDER CONTROL (I HAVE EXPRESSED THİS OPINION OF MİNE ON EVERY PLATFORM SINCE 1980)

 

Istanbul – 2018

VEYSİ BALİN

According to the article number ninety of the Notary Law, the above text can not be quoted, it can not be used anywhere, its rights are reserved.

 

Covering is the essential necessity of mankind. With existence of the mankind, the need for covering has also emerged. Covering has become a necessity for people to weather opposition with cover their private body parts. The covering, from the existence of the human being to today, has been made big change and improved.

In the first age, people were used skin of animals, tree bark and durable grasses to cover their body. Later on, without discrimination gender, similar coverings such as sheet has been arisen. As time progress, that became two-armed dress-gown interchanges, for many years, women and men had been wearing dress-gown. Large cut galligaskins types had been worn and took place of today’s name pantyhose and trouser.

As time went on, the types of galligaskins and pants began to emerge. Jacket, overcoat and coat as upper garment took places of cloak and cowl. We see that, as time progress, clothing has brought diversity in terms of shape and use according to the needs of mankind.

In our world, there are very different climates among the continents so depending on climatic conditions and seasons, the type of the clothing vary. As time progressed, clothing styles were also decisive, depending on the sex.

Some of the clothing types are decisive according to the continents and countries. There are types of clothes that symbolize religious, national, entertainment, home, local, occupational, underwear and normal clothing. Once the essential needs come to the saturation point, after the saturation point, the luxury of the product appears in each sector, no matter what product it is.

 

While we rank all sectors in the world, the textile and apparel sector is come out on the fourth rank.

 

• Agriculture and livestock
• Health
• Sheltering
• Textile and apparel

 

And we see that we are at 4^th rank among thousands of sectors.

In the world and in our country, over the time, except for essential necessities the trend of fashion in textiles and ready-to-wear has slowly begun (in developed countries).

With the beginning of the fashion trend, this trend is braked by the 1^st and 2^nd World Wars in developed countries. Because of these wars, a large part of developed countries have experienced material and spiritual difficulties.

 

After World War 2, the trend of fashion in developed countries rapidly advanced again. In a real sense, in our country, the fashion trend has began slowly after the 1960’s. Due to the customs barriers in our country imports were not able to be made. We had to consume that we had produced in our country. Due to the customs barriers, we could not produce goods at international level (quality as well) and our price were higher than world price. Supply was low,demand was high. After 1984, we have started to produce goods in international quality and price gradually with the customs barriers were removed, therefore, we have been accelerated foreign trade, that is, exports. After this date, our country has begun to export t-shirts (top group), non-denim and denim in serious amount. And it came to such a state that, among all other sector textile and ready-made garment never lost the leading position against to any other sector. Years later, ready-made garments and textile announced separately. Because of this situation, automotive exports got leading position even automotive sector is dependent around 65-70% on imports. When we take this into consideration, textile and ready-made garment sector is still in the leading position. I am ranking the factors that make the ready-made garment and textile industry so successful:

 

• In the ready-made garment sector capital is not but labor is intense
• Our country has a young population
• Having a culture based on master-apprenticeship
• Having girl vocational high schools in our country for many years
• The fact that our Armenian and Syriac citizens are having at the highest level of knowledge and skills in this sector and therefore transferring master-apprentice relations like the educational institution to the next generation
• Sümerbank has been tremendous serviced in raising qualified personnel both in textile and ready-made garment sectors
• Our geographical position (we are close to Europe)
• We are a skilful and creative nation
• We are a cotton growing country

 

For the reasons above, we have succeeded in ready-made garment and textile. We can be easily at the top 4 or 5 in the world rank in future. Both in the world and in our country, the future of ready-made garments and textiles are very bright.

The ready-wear garment is a greatly insatiable industry. It is just like the food industry! Its insatiability comes from the fashion trend: People work and live to be happy,happy people become productive so they are succeed. We see that, the clothes that we enjoy are poking our happiness hormone! As long as we are poked , we are productive and successful. The success of individuals makes the country successful.

At the present day, ready-made garment sector frets previous product with new product (with fashion). Wardrobes are brim over as full as possible. Even in the middle-class, the second wardrobe is formed. We are faced with crazy insatiable and wildly consumption. This consumption also arouse the country’s economy, and thus the world economy, positively. The rule of the economy is already based on (production and consumption) the cycle of consumption.

 

Istanbul 2018

VEYSİ BALİN

According to the article number ninety of the Notary Law, the above text can not be quoted, it can not be used anywhere, its rights are reserved.

In the beginning, there was no fashion in textile.

At first, the need to cover people’s private body parts and to cover them against the weather opposition emerged.

With this covering, there have been great changes in clothing, such as the developments that people have made in other branches.

Covering is an essential necessity for people. As is always the case, after the essential needs come to the saturation point, after the saturation point, the luxury of that product appears in each sector.

That’s where fashion starts.

For me, fashion in clothing means change, difference, pointedness, it is the car brakes to fail, knows no bounds. Fashion does not mean to spend a lot of money, to buy very expensive clothes or to buy no one wears.

Fashion is freedom, liberty and modernity.

 

The fashion designer does what stays in his / her mind, and does not expect a positive reaction from the surrounding when he / she presents things to the nearers before he does.

Negative reactions can not deter him / her, the fashioner does not have any insurance (he / she receives the electric directly from the network).

When fashioners think about fashion, sometimes they think about subjects fluently and take the photos of the images like as a photographer in their minds, but sometimes they can not find their thoughts in their minds, and they writhe and sink into a depression.

A real fashioner is the one who implements his / her thoughts.

A real fashioner puts his / her thoughts into practice, is followed by a certain segment of the society. This segment is a certain group of people without any complex, having self-confidence, and a certain characteristic. Behind this particular segment, the other members of the society enter the convoy and thus the fashion orbits.

 

Istanbul 2017

VEYSİ BALİN

According to the article number ninety of the Notary Law, the above text can not be quoted, it can not be used anywhere, its rights are reserved.

 LOVE – ECOSYSTEM

 

LOVE IS THE WHOLE DYNAMIC OF DREAMING, DESIGN, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, PRODUCTION AND ECONOMY.

LOVE is an eternal occurance, in other words, the existence.

The formation of existence is the exteriorisation of love, existence is the result of love.

Then, we live the love swirling in it, without even realizing.

There is no living or non – living thing in which love does not penetrate,

Love is the energy itself.

 

LOVE IS THE BREEDER, DEPLETIVE, LOVE IS THE STATE OF FLUX. LOVE IS THE LIFE ITSELF.

 

As stated above, LOVE exists in different sizes in every human being, thus produces different productivities.

Other creatures are also productive, some produce food for humans, and some also serve.

Some are indirectly productive (They are productive consumers)

The materials actually living but we call non – living, also serve humanity and are indispensable.

 

LOVE bursts into sight in different situations in every human body, we also see this in our lives. In our world, love appears in the highest level in human, but in every human being in a different level.

In children of love children, the dose is manifested at the highest level, they are MARGINALS.

That is to say, those who live with love are moving all the dynamics of imagination, design, entrepreneurship, production and economy.

 

Istanbul 2017

VEYSİ BALİN

According to the article number ninety of the Notary Law, the above text can not be quoted, it can not be used anywhere, its rights are reserved.

Veysi Balin was born in 1949 in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Balin completed primary and secondary education in Diyarbakır and continued high school education at  Sultanahmet Akşam Ticaret Lisesi in İstanbul, Turkey.

Balin started his business life by selling chewing gum and water in the soil made pitcher at Diyarbakır railway station when he was just,6. Then he began to sell the products that passengers needed (razor blade, toothpaste, toothbrush, pocket comb, wallet, etc.) that is, he started to work as a peddle.

He opened a small novelties shop in Bağlar district of Diyarbakır and changed it to 3 other shops in the same area within 2 years because he found each previous shop was smaller than the following one. Two years later, he opened one of the biggest store in the sector he is in as he moved to the mall of Vakıflar in the center of Diyarbakır.

In 1971, Balin, who was on the way of tailoring his mother’s profession, chose the textile industry as his profession. He started production of children’s dress in a small workshop in Laleli, Istanbul. Next to production of children’s dress, he also began production of school uniform. First time in Turkey, in 1971, he launched the mass production of school uniforms and he created the brand BALİNLER. In order to carry his success in ready made garment to aboard, Balin, who produced and marketed school uniforms in the domestic market, began to export jeans and sport wears, in 1978. 98% of the production made under the name of Balins, Veys 777,Chain and Own brands are being exported.

 

Balin, who is also design most of the product which is produced in his company, has reached a different line in Europe with his collections prepared by his unique fashion sense. Balin does not limit his extraordinary thoughts on the basis of ready-to-wear, he also interested in the interior and exterior architecture of all service buildings and showrooms of his companies. Thus, Balin thinks that he creates differentiated space with decoration by establishing parallelism with the products he produces.

 

In 1993, with launch of private radio broadcasting, Balin established Veys FM and Balins FM in Marmara region. Balin, particularly interested in Veys FM, which broadcast only Turkish art music 24 hours a day, and believes that this broadcasting offers a great cultural service.

 

With his routine business, Balin was in charge of the task of board member in İHKİB (Istanbul Apparel Exporters’ Association)  between the period of 1989-1991 and 1999-2001. Balins is also member of Turkish Industrialist’s and Businessmen’s Association.

Balin made a huge organization in Turkish denim sector by poured jeans over the sky by helicopter in Sultanahmet square, Turkey and signing giant organizations and fashion shows in Europe.

Balin has participated as a lecturer related fashion, economy and business life at many international universities and has been awarded success awards for his contributions. Balin has a colorful personality that blends economy with social life and giving many interviews related the economy-fashion- business life on tv channels. Balin, who has been published articles in various newspapers and magazines since 1985, has written articles in Dünya Gazetesi since the first month of 2002. He turns his business life into a game and blends his design with the philosophical thought structure.

Out of his business life, Balin’s the biggest hobby horses..

Balin made horse breeding on his own stud farm in Altınova, Yalova. His success in horse breeding continues in horseback riding in Maslak Sipahi Ocağı horse riding club, İn Istanbul. Balin expresses the importance of this sport in human life at every opportunity because of horse riding is the only spore of two creatures.

Balin says: “The condition, for the person starting to life from zero, is not a disadvantage but is an advantage”