Sustainability Report 2013
Ziraat
1939-1963
World
Under Statute 123, Ziraat Bank is authorized to restructure the servicing of defaulted obligations owed to the Bank by villagers and farmers.
  • Statute 4094 authorizes Ziraat Bank to restructure the repayment of Hatay Ziraat Bank’s mortgage-backed and/or jointly-guaranteed agricultural loan receivables in the wake of that bank’s liquidation.
  • Work is completed on the set of operational regulations called for by Statute 3202. Consisting of 198 articles, the regulations governing the operations of Ziraat Bank go into effect.
  • Ziraat Bank becomes a member of Confédération Internationale du Crédit Agricole (CICA), a non-profit worldwide association of banks and other entities interested and involved in rural financial processes.
  • The third general assembly of CICA is held in İstanbul and Ankara with Ziraat Bank acting as host.
  • Under Statute 7052, Ziraat Bank is authorized to restructure agricultural loan repayments.
  • Ziraat Bank attends an international conference concerning scientific research on the subject of agricultural cooperatives organized jointly by a number of German and Austrian universities and institutes in West Germany.
  • Under Statute 123, Ziraat Bank is authorized to restructure the servicing of defaulted obligations owed to the Bank by villagers and farmers.
  • Ziraat Bank attends the Third International Congress on Agricultural Congresses in Marburg, West Germany. One decision taken at this congress was the establishment of an “International Agricultural Cooperatives Forum”, a talk-shop for exploring collaboration among members in issues pertaining to coops.
  • Ziraat Bank launches “Tarım Kredi ve Satış Kooperatiflerine Ait Gelişmeler”, a series of publications concerning developments in agricultural credit and sales coops, that would continue for nineteen years.
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring the Second World War to an end.
  • World War II begins.
  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring the Second World War to an end.
  • Forty-five countries attending the Bretton Woods Conference agree to set up the International Monetary Fund.
  • Fifty countries attending the San Francisco Conference agree to set up the United Nations.
  • The Cold War begins.
  • Diners Club introduces the first general-purpose credit card.
  • The European Economic Community (EEC), from which the European Union (EU) would subsequently emerge, is created under the Treaty of Rome.
  • The Internet is born as a collection of interconnected packet-switching networks.
  • The world’s first ATM goes into service in London.
  • The Agreement between The Republic of Turkey and the European Economic
  • Community (commonly known as the Ankara Agreement) is signed.