Izmir Chamber of Commerce was set up in 1885 and is still active as a Constitutional Professional Legal Entity to cater for the common needs of its members, to facilitate their professional activities, to maintain professional discipline, moral values and solidarity so as to establish honesty and reliability in the relations between the members and with third parties, and to render services as provided for under its statutory law.
Izmir Chamber of Commerce has functioned as Izmir's Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1951. Since the entrance of a new law into effect in that year, it has been functioning as Izmir Chamber of Commerce.
With its Pre-Republic history and more than 70.000 members and about 200-personnel Izmir Chamber of Commerce is the second biggest and most institutionalized chamber in Turkey.