The Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists ( tr, Türkiye İşadamları ve Sanayiciler Konfederasyonu), best known by the abbreviation TUSKON, was an

employers' organization An employers' organization or employers' association is a collective organization of manufacturers, retailers, or other employers of wage labor. Employers' organizations seek to coordinate the behavior of their member companies in matters of mutual ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

, with about 40,000 members. It was founded in 2005 by seven business federations. Ninety percent of the TUSKON members were small or medium establishments with fewer than 50 employees. TUSKON engaged in

lobbying In politics, lobbying, persuasion or interest representation is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators or members of regulatory agency, regulatory agencie ...

all decision-makers at the local, regional, national and global levels.Tuskon Website
/ref> Rızanur Meral, the managing director of SANKO Automotive Group, was the last president of TUSKON. TUSKON was closely connected to the Islamic

Gülen movement The Gülen movement ( tr, Gülen hareketi), referred to by its participants as Hizmet ("service") or Cemaat ("community") and since 2016 by the Government of Turkey as FETÖ ("Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation" or, more commonly, "Fethullah T ...

of the Turkish preacher

Fethullah Gülen Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader, as de facto leader of the Gülen movement. Gülen is designated an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Isla ...

. The movement controlled many businesses and organizations around the world, with many of their leaders having membership in TUSKON, such as

Bank Asya Bank Asya was established in October 24, 1996 with its head office in Istanbul, as the sixth private finance house of Turkey. The company's name, which had been previously "Asya Finans Kurumu Anonim Şirketi" (Asya Finance Incorporated Company), ...

. TUSKON was closed following the coup attempt in July 2016.

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* 2005 establishments in Turkey 2016 disestablishments in Turkey Employers' organizations Business organizations based in Turkey Gülen movement Organizations established in 2005 Organizations disestablished in 2016 Defunct organizations based in Turkey {{Turkey-org-stub

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