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New BoD of Association of Assistance Companies is ready for
duty in 2019

Ordinary General Assembly of the Association of Assistance Companies was held on 20 December at
its headquarters. The assembly was held with the full participation of member companies and the new
Board of Directors was elected for 2019. Cenk Saffet Keskinel (CEO of Europ Assistance Turkey)
was once again elected as the Chairman, while Mehtap Akkaya, General Manager of EuroCross was
elected as Vice Chairman.

Chairman Keskinel stated that they would hold the first meeting of 2019 in January to create the
action plan for the new term. He added they would continue with the information and improvement
activities which were initiated to prevent unexpected developments in replacement car companies due
to fluctuations in the economy from imposing negative impacts on the market and companies.

“We have offered bond insurance to our market, a debt we owe to our country as
a local insurance company”

During the meeting at- tee in tenders and contracts.”
tended by the senior man-
agement team of Quick “We have offered bond insurance to our market, a debt we owe to
Sigorta, the company our country as a local insurance company,” Yaşar said. He add-
introduced Quick bond in- ed: “Our businessmen can buy construction equipment and create
surance to more than 100 employment opportunities with their credit limits in banks. They
Quick Sigorta agents op- can use it in investments; but they can buy their guarantee letters
erating in Gaziantep, Ki- from us as non-cash loans with reasonable prices. They can use
lis, Kahramanmaraş city them in tenders. This means that we can stand surety for them
center and its districts, as they conduct their businesses. It is a part of our new economic
as a product that can re- program.”
place letters of guarantee
offered by banks. During
the meeting that attract-
ed a great deal of atten-
tion from the agents,
Quick Sigorta informed
the attendees about the
company’s new financial insurance and other products. Levent
Uluçeçen, CEO of Maher Holding, gave a speech during the meet-
ing. He said they entered the insurance market with Quick Sigor-
ta brand and acquired Turkland Sigorta in recent months: “Quick
Sigorta has shown great success in a short period of time. Work-
ing with a digital approach and 1600 employees, Quick Sigorta
has issued 2.5 million policies in only 1.5 years. You agents are
the most important heroes of this success.”

Ahmet Yaşar, General Manager of Quick Sigorta, stated that as
a local and national insurance company, they were proud to offer
the service of bond insurance to companies that will enter public
and private tenders, or indemnify their conventional obligations
as a product to replace letters of guarantee. Yaşar informed the
agents about bond insurance, and underlined that “development
of non-bank finance institutions” strategy, a part of their new
economy program, or in other words, their medium-term plan-
ning overlapped with their strategy. He said: “Our company has
offered bond insurance for the use of Anatolian companies for the
first time in Turkey. Our SMEs in Anatolia will not be obliged to
work with banks only. Therefore, our tradesmen, our SMEs will
be able to use surety bonds as a replacement of letter of guaran-