As SKD Türkiye, we have been working for 20 years by guiding the business world to achieve their green transformation goals in their sustainable development journey. By following the developments regarding global climate change, IC Holding, which is an important player of the business world in many fields, especially the tourism and construction sectors, which are an important part of this struggle, creates an important business that serves economic, social and environmental benefit by creating its works on the axis of sustainability. is our stakeholder.
IC İçtaş İnşaat and Treysan, companies affiliated with IC Holding, have been among the members of SKD Turkey since 2019 and 2022, and they actively participate in all working groups of our association. In addition, IC İçtaş İnşaat, Tredaş and ICA are among the signatories of the Business World Plastic Initiative, which is a voluntary initiative of which SKD Turkey is one of the founders, established to encourage concrete actions of private sector organizations on the issue of plastic waste in line with circular economy principles. In addition, IC İçtaş İnşaat, the new project of our Association, which has been implemented with the aim of supporting sustainable development, "Destroys to Occur as a Result of Urban Transformation, Earthquakes and Other Possible Disasters", which is prepared to manage the demolition wastes resulting from urban transformation, earthquakes and other possible disasters in Turkey with a holistic approach. As one of the main sponsors of the "Waste Management Guide", it accelerates our cooperation.
As SKD Türkiye, we support our country's green transformation journey with the projects we implement with the power we receive from our member companies and with studies that provide measurable outputs. While I hope that our cooperation with our valuable stakeholder IC Holding will grow even stronger, I congratulate our stakeholder who continues its activities with the awareness of the contribution of reporting focused on "transparency and accountability" to the green transformation of our country.
KONCA ÇALKIVİK
SKD Türkiye – SECRETARY GENERAL
The educational scholarships that Mr. İbrahim Çeçen, IC Holding Chairman, started to provide personally in 1984, started to meet with students in a more institutionalized structure with the establishment of the IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation in 2004. Our foundation continues its activities in the fields of education, health, sports and cultural development.
Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, which was established in 2007 in Ağrı, one of the frontier provinces of our country, and honorably bears the name of İbrahim Çeçen, a philanthropist businessman who is a volunteer for education, is a higher education institution that prioritizes raising qualified young people who will take part in the future of our country.
As Sustainability Academy, we work as an information, cooperation and communication center to be effective together with all stakeholders to shape a better future in the business world, to grow the impact together and to accelerate change and transformation.
EYDK, the first and only national advisory board in Turkey focused on impact investments, has been working to facilitate the development of impact investments and promote sustainable growth in Turkey since its first steps.