Ordu Mercantile Exchange Chairman Nejdet Gürsoy made the following statements after saying that the new season hazelnut prices should be announced in June:

One of the biggest mistakes made in hazelnut season is that the hazelnut prices or purchase politics are announced too late. This damages the hazelnut market in a way that manufacturers are affected most.

Ordu Commodity Exchange (OTB) Board Chairman Nejdet Gürsoy has been elected as a member of the Council in the 64. ordinary general assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), and he has become the pride of Ordu.

In 18 January 2009, Sunday,  Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors Nejdet Gürsoy was re-elected as the chairman of the Ordu Commodity Exchange as a result of the parliamentary elections in Ordu Exchange service building.

Because of the fact that our country, as the biggest hazelnut porducer and exporter of the world, can't solve its ongoing structural problems, it is not able to use the advantages of its strategical location in the world market. However, because of the product support model and political prices, today there is a great problem of supply, and many countries have been created as new competitors in hazelnut.