Dünya, asked the Turkish CEOs about their 2010 expectations. Given much more positive opinions than the foreigners,  Doğuş Group CEO Hüsnü Akhan, Alarko Holding CEO Ayhan Yavrucu, Çalık Group CEO Berat Albayrak, Akkök Group CEO M. Ali Berkman and Kiler Holding CEO Ahmet Kaçar, predicted that a regrowth is going to be experienced in 2010 economy.

The CEOs agreed that the most favourite and beneficial sector is going to be the energy sector while informing that they are going to be implementing the postponed projects, making  new investments and regrowing in the number of employment. The CEOs at the same time, have determined infrastructure operations and acquisitions as proper areas to be invested this year. They have given good news for the increase in the employment for their own groups but predicted that the unemployment problem that has reached its peak with the financial crisis, can not solved in this year.

Berat Albayrak: We are foreseeing 25% increase in export and outstanding revival in the domestic consumption in 2010. Our investments in the energy, construction, mining and finance sectors will move on. We will continue our power plant investments.

Çalık is going to speed up in energy, construction and mining sectors.

I have already said that the economy would be going in the recovery direction towards the end of the year and it has been going in this way for the last six months. As a matter of fact I’m waiting for a recovery period to begin in the first quarter of 2010. In addition to this, I think the basic dynamics of both micro and macro economies and the momentum(dynamisim) at the real sector are going to proceed positively. Hereby, I am expecting 25% of growth in export ratios and a serious increase in the domestic consumption in comparison to 2009. As Çalık Group, both our domestic and overseas investments are going to be continued. We will sustain our hydroelectric power plant investment projects beside the power plant distribution projects which we realised in 2009. Our investments in the energy, construction, mining and finance will also continue with the same acceleration in 2010. I can see great opportunities in the neighborhood regions in such sectors. I think there are serious opportunities of both investment
and capital interest especially in Turkey and such geographies as Middle East, Caucasia, and North Africa in 2010 same as in 2009. Thus, I’m predicting such companies that actively use their current resources, will continue to operate in these geographies in the forthcoming years, depending on the shortage of  liquidity all around the world.