Observers argue the association will have a stronger impact on both the government and business world with the comeback of the magazine, which, during its previous years of publication, was respected by many. Görüş was first published in 1973.
Speaking during a meeting late Monday in İstanbul, TÜSİAD Chairwoman Ümit Boyner said the magazine is “committed to observing and producing solutions for Turkey’s problems in line with the country’s interests.”
“This is the roadmap that Görüş magazine adopted 20 years ago, and today we are here to continue this mission from where it stopped.” Boyner underlined that the magazine would discuss current issues from a global point of view in a bid contribute to the improvement of social and political life in Turkey. She emphasized that the magazine will publish objective articles and “does not have to always share the same point of view with TÜSİAD.”
Criticizing the political parties in Turkey for lacking transparency and maintaining their distance from the public, Boyner said Turkey is in need of further reforms for the establishment of a healthier democracy. The magazine’s first edition had on the cover a picture depicting only three political party leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Deniz Baykal and Devlet Bahçeli, with carbon copies of the three politicians sitting in for the rest of the members of Parliament. The cover tries to attract attention to the shortcomings as regards to intra-party democracy in Turkish political parties.
TÜSİAD has recently urged all political parties to contribute simultaneously to the current constitutional reform process launched by the government.
The association’s new board was lauded by various parties for recent statements in support of increased democracy in Turkey. TÜSİAD had been harshly criticized as being unaware about the concerns of the general public during the time of former head Arzuhan Doğan Yalçınkaya.
