A meeting issued “The Role of Public-Civil Society-Private Sector Cooperation and International Partnerships in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Global Forest Goals” was held by Chamber of Forestry Engineers at Antalya on 3-4 December 2018.

In the symposium on behalf of Öz Orman-İş trade union president Settar ASLAN delivered a speech underlining the common worth of world forests and the requirement of their conservation. ‘’ It is not possible to serve 23.3 milion hector area of Turkey forest stock with current numbers of workers. We need to keep forest village householders at forest and make them earn their living . Forestry associations and unions need to take further steps for villagers in the way of obtaining more income from forests. In this regard ,many steps have been taken but unfortunately there is stil not enough economic employment since the lack of forest villagers and workers.

During meeting Mr. Settar Aslan gathered together with many civil society organizations leaders from Turkey and foreign countries.

Öz Orman-iş signed a cooperation agreement with Hungary Agriculture Union and Romania Forestry Federation in the framework of global solidarity and basically agreed upon following issues;

·        Exchange of information and experience in consideration of ultimate developments in social and economic life at their own countries;

·        Exchanges of delegates in order to benefit from mutual information and experience on union activities;

·        Contributing to establish strong relations among trade unions, states and people based on mutual benefits;

·        Exchanging different materials, such as newspapers, magazines, brochures and books, for mutually sharing information on working life environment and union activities;

·        Implementing joint national regional and international activities, such as conferences, workshops and campaigns for labour rights protection and promote decent work;

·        Conducting training programs and education seminars for experts, employees and representatives on the basis of mutually exchanging information and experience;

·        Mutually informing each other on future developments in fields of social security and working life in their own countries;

·        Protecting and improving the social rights and integration of immigrant workers employed in both countries;

·        Taking measures to ensure a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families;

·        Caring for the environment, combating climate change, desertification and land ecosystems;

 Promote collaboration between different social partners to support and serve Sustainable Developments Goals (SDG) of the world.