Fuel dealers demanded at least 15 percent profit share

Petroleum Products Employers' Union (PÜİS) Chairman İmran Okumuş made a written statement after the meeting of the PÜİS Board of Presidents to discuss the profit shares of the fuel dealers and some of their problems.

Okumuş stated that the fuel dealers were adversely affected by the increase in costs. They made a loss with the current profit share.

Okumuş stated that they prepared a report on this subject and said, "With the reports we have prepared, we have clearly demonstrated that the dealers are making losses with the current profit share. We prepared our report, which includes our demand for the profit share to be at least 15 percent and to be increased at the rate of inflation every year, and we conveyed it to our President, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, the Treasury, Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Energy Commission of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Chairman of the Plan and Budget Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Deputy Chairman of the Group of our political parties, the MPs, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority.

Afterwards, we had mutual meetings with the most authoritative figures of our government and state bureaucracy, with lawmakers. We convinced them in the interviews we held on January 11, and they agreed with us that the dealers are making losses with today's dividends, and research has been started on this issue."

Emphasizing the importance of maintaining a sustainable structure for the profit share of the dealers, Okumuş said, "A station that sells 10,000 liters a day incurs a loss of 54,000 liras per month. Considering that the daily sales average of the stations in our country is around 3,000 liters, it is not possible for the stations located in the provinces to continue their existence."