Independent Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (i.e., MUSIAD);  is an association of the businessmen, which was founded in Istanbul on 9 May 1990 by the sensitive businessmen, who set out with a dream about Turkey where equity and law, justice and equality, peace and safety, welfare and prosperity have been established; public and historic local and universal values  are regarded, that is undivided in itself, active in economic and political sphere in its territory and prestigious all over the world.

Under the status of public benefit association, it is a strong ‘’Non-Governmental Organization’’ that became a model training, guidance, and consultancy center not only for the business world, but also for the other sections of the society, whose applications and operations are based on a professional thinking platform and that shares its intellectual knowledge and experience.

As a businessmen’s association that acts independently and separately both at national and international level, the mission of the MUSIAD is to increase the number of the members that adopts pre-determined principles and values, develop solidarity among the members and contribute to material and moral development of our country with this unity and solidarity spirit ensured within itself.