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Fahri Altıngöz reelected as the Chairman of Insurance Practitioners Association

Insurance Practitioners Association, the most rooted NGO of Chairman Fahri Altıngöz
Turkish insurance market and the organizer of International İs- said: “Apart from the
tanbul Insurance Conference, held its Ordinary General Assem- 10th International İstan-
bly Meeting for 2018 at TSEV conference rooms. bul Insurance Conference,
Insurance Practitioners
Presided by the Council Board, which consists of Cengiz Akat- Association has deter-
lı, Adli Okuş and Necdet Atakul, the General Assembly meeting mined a busy working
was opened with the expressions of thanks for the activities in the program full of meet-
period of 2016-2018. Upon the proposal of the Council Board, ings and events that will
current Board of Directors was reelected for duty unanimously. be looked forward to in
the year of its 60th an-
The Board of Directors will continue its duty for the next two niversary.” According to
years and following members: Fahri Altıngöz, Faruk Ömrüuzak, unanimous voting results,
Menekşe Uçanoğlu, Muhittin Karaman, Ahmet Yaşar, Bülent Hazim Tümtürk, Ebru
Somuncu and Mehmet Kalkavan. As a result of the BoD meeting Yüksekbilgili, Ali Izzet
conducted by these members, each one of whom are the experi- Börü, Özer Şimşek, Ham-
enced professionals of the insurance market, Fahri Altıngöz was di Sarkaya were elected as the Substitute Members for the Board
unanimously reelected as the Chairman of the Board. of Directors; Mehmet Yazıcı, Candan Özcan, Cengiz Diren were
elected as the Original Members of the Audit Committee; Feri-
Insurance Practitioners Association has rapidly determined its dun Özünal, Atila Yalçın, Ayşe Taylan were elected as the Sub-
program for the new term in accordance with the Turkish econo- stitute Members of the Audit Committee; Cengiz Akatlı, İlham
my and potential of insurance market as a busy schedule that will Saner, Nihat Tavşanlı were elected as the Original Members
keep supporting the development of insurance market by main- of the Disciplinary Committee; Necdet Atakul, Mahmut Ömer
taining its effective actions for current items on the market’s Altuğ, Sübhan Altınordu were elected as the Substitute Members
agenda. of the Disciplinary Committee.

Insurance of the agriculture continues to grow in the new year

draught, as well as frost, hot wind, heat wave, extreme humidity,
and intense precipitation. In addition to several discount oppor-
tunities, our Government provides 60 percent premium support
to our producers. When we analyze the progress of this year, we
see that 83 thousand policies have been issued in over 6.300 vil-
lages of 444 districts in 69 cities. Compared to the previous year,
this was an increase of 21 percent. Furthermore, 1.4 million de-
cares of land were insured; highest number of policies having
been issued in Sivas, Ankara, Kütahya, Kahramanmaraş, Eskişe-
hir and Afyon, respectively. This proves that our producers have
embraced the insurance, and their interest has increased over the
same period of last year.”
Working for 12 years to ensure the sustainability of agricultural
activities, TARSİM continues along its path with firm steps in 33 percent increase in animal life insurance
the new year by adding new ones to its achievements. The an-
nouncement made by the organization stated that in 2018, the In addition to specific projects conducted by our Government to
sum of insured agricultural assets (in all agricultural insurance encourage livestock industry, theft was included in the insurance
sub-branches) across the country reached 19 billion TL with a coverage last year and most of the notifiable diseases were in-
growth of 24 percent; while the premium production reached 1.2 cluded this year. These actions have accelerated the growth of
billion TL with a growth of 15 percent, the number of insured animal life insurance, resulting in a 33 percent increase com-
cattle, sheep and goats grew by 33 percent reaching 748 thou- pared to the same period of last year. We aim to include many
sand, the number of policies rose up to 1.2 million and the size of more of our producers in the system for the coming years and
insured lands expanded up to 17 million decares. help them benefit from the opportunities provided by TARSİM;
thus breathing a sigh of relief by continuing their production ac-
Our producers’ interest in draught insurance is pleasing tivities uninterruptedly. In accordance with the 2023 vision of
our country, we will continue working towards maintaining the
“District-Based Draught Productivity Insurance which was sustainable structure of the System and expanding the insurance
launched last year for only wheat, started to cover barley, rye, coverage by focusing on the enhancement of the prosperity of our
triticale, oat in addition to wheat and also their seeds as of 2018 producers and agricultural production in our country.”
plantations. These products can be covered against particularly