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Özgür Güneri, CEO of Turkey’s top investment bank 2012, Finansinvest, discusses with World Report the rapid changes seen in the country’s capital markets and his company’s strengths in investment services

With ICT a key catalyst for economic and entrepreneurial growth, Hakam Kanafani, Group CEO of Turk Telekom speaks to World Report about the company’s “ability to change and react and create opportunities, and adapt to what is happening” to maintain the momentum of its innovation and expansion

World Report catches up with Dr Mustafa Sani Şener, CEO of TAV Group, Turkey’s main airport builder and operator now present in Macedonia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the GCC, Latvia and Turkey. These different airport destinations have helped the firm finetune its capacity to “adapt to each and every need need”

Management at the group behind the hospitality sector's game-changing Yotel micro-hotel concept, IFA Hotels & Resorts, encourages Kuwaiti youth to act on their entrepreneurial instincts to further expand the nation's private sector. Speaking to World Report, Chairman & Group CEO of IFA Hotels & Resorts Talal Al-Bahar also urges international investors to take a broader look of Kuwait beyond its petroleum industry

Burak Çelet, General Manager of Desa Deri, discusses with World Report how his company, a leading leather goods retailer and manufacturer and participant in the Turquality programme, is breaking on to the international high-end goods market

The largest independent consulting and engineering firm in Turkey, Yuksel Proje is the only local partner of Avrasya JV, which is supervising Istanbul’s Marmaray project that is creating the first transcontinental subway and railway system in the world under the Bosphorous Strait. Cemal Karaoglu, Vice-Chairman of Yuksel Proje, discusses the company’s expansion and its local and international projects, as well as Turkey’s insatiable need for affordable housing

Arturo Gutierrez de Piñeres, General Director of Gases de Occidente, speaks with United World about the many ways in which natural gas has changed for the better the lifestyle of hundreds of thousands of Colombians, especially among the poorer segments

According to Celso Correia, President of one of Mozambique’s largest conglomerates, Insitec: “The financial system must be a pillar of the economic system in order to promote economic development and generate work for the citizens of Mozambique.” Here, he talks to Upper Reach about the country’s financial sector and potential for hydropower, as well as its socioeconomic development and achievements that are restoring pride in the nation.

At the helm of one of Turkey’s most relied-on conglomerates, Ali Agaoglu, Chairman of the Agaoglu Group, speaks to World Report about the development of Istanbul as a major financial centre and how his company – which is “one of the strongest groups in the world in terms of our technical team and technical know-how” – is reshaping the nation’s skylines with high quality, secure and accessibly priced living spaces.

Eminent Turkish academic and diplomat, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, became the OIC’s first democratically elected Secretary General in 2005, and has been instrumental in its mission for development, peace and understanding