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The Revolutionary Council: Turkish Design CouncilThe President of the Turkish Exporters Assembly Oğuz Satıcı excitedly says, "We set out on this path to augment Turkey's competitive power. Our state undermines our competitive power by the direct and indirect taxes it burdens on us. We took too much debt. We squandered our money. Now we make exporters and producers pay for this whereas export is our only way out. The Turkish Design Council is one of the creative solutions we are trying to realize amidst this pickle. We have to increase our competitive power. We have to differentiate our products and services and for this we have to re-design our products, ideas and even the whole society."
There are some works that are recollected by the historical outcomes they produce. They leave such deep marks on processes following them that they go down in history as such. The Turkish Design Council is such an example. The objective is to bring together Turkey's designers, exporters and industrialists for international competition; to make sure that Turkey deals with design as a respectable and strategic matter.
We ask Oğuz Satıcı how this council will contribute to Turkey. He replies to our question with a faint sigh: "Until today, Turkey used to produce goods for the world. By making goods for the global consumption, we learned about quality and productivity. Now we should sell
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