Çalık Holding
| Çalık Holding A.Ş.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat | Istanbul , Turkey |
| management | Ahmet Çalık |
| Number of employees | 18,500 (2007) |
| sales | 1.2 billion US dollars (2007) |
| Website | www.calik.com |
The Çalık Holding is one of the largest Turkish companies are among the 34 companies. The company's headquarters are in Merter , Istanbul . Çalık Holding is active in the construction, energy, finance, textiles, logistics and media industries. In 2007, the company's equity was $ 850 million.
Founding history
The Çalık family entered the textile business around 1930. In 1980 the family founded the Ortadoğu Tekstil Tic. ve San A.Ş. . Today this company is seen as the foundation of the Çalık success story. In the same year, Çalık Energie was founded. The holding company was founded in 1997.
Activities abroad
The company's executive board, Ahmet Çalık , made textile investments in Turkmenistan in the early 1990s . There he was able to quickly make himself popular with the late President Saparmyrat Nyýazow . He arranged for the Ruhnama to be translated into Turkish and English . The rapprochement with the dictator went so far that he even gave him the post of deputy minister. During this time Çalık is said to have amassed a billion-dollar fortune. In addition, Calik Holding is involved in Iraq and endeavors to implement further projects in Iraq.
criticism
The media empire Sabah , which was sold by the Turkish state and which includes daily newspapers, magazines and television stations, was bought by the Çalık Group as the only bidder in the tender for USD 1.1 billion on April 22, 2008. To purchase this media group, Çalık received a loan of US $ 770 million from the state banks Halkbank and Vakıfbank . The sale provoked a storm of indignation across Turkey, not only because there were preferential loan conditions from state banks, but also because Çalık has a reputation for being particularly close to Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi . The then deputy chairman of the opposition CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of campaigning for borrowing. President Abdullah Gül admitted that he introduced Çalik to the ruler of Qatar, Hamad bin Chalifa Al Thani , who in turn has a 25% stake in the media group through one of his companies.
Berat Albayrak , Erdoğan's son-in-law, who became CEO of the Çalık Group at the age of 29, is also criticized .
Further criticism arose when Çalık Holding translated the Turkmen President's book Ruhnama into Turkish and English.
swell
- ↑ [http://www.ihlas.net.tr/detay4u.asp?id=39498 '' Information on the business figures of the fastest growing Turkish companies ''] (link not available)
- ↑ [http://www.piramitmenkul.com.tr/v1/p_popup.asp?p=pp_haberdetay&haberid=785030 '' Information on business figures and the history of Çalik Holding ''] (link not available)
- ↑ a b aktifhaber.com: Article on the Çalık Group ( Memento from March 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). December 6, 2007 (Turkish)
- ↑ Andrés Mourenza: Para operar en Turkmenistan, empresas europeas y de EEUU difunden el libro del dictador Niyazov , 26. November 2008
- ↑ ÇALIK HOLDİNG BAŞKANI AHMET ÇALIK: IRAQ'IN HER TÜRLÜ YATIRIMA İHTİYACI VAR (Calik Holding Chairman Ahmet Çalık: Iraq needs every investment) Turkish newspaper gazeteturk, July 6, 2012
- ↑ Milliyet (daily newspaper) :: Information on the sale of the Sabah media group (Turkish)
- ↑ Radikal (newspaper) : Information on the sale for alleged loan acquisition by Tayyip Erdoğan ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), April 19, 2008 (Turkish)
- ↑ : Vatan (daily newspaper) : Article on the scandal surrounding the placement of Güls ( memento of April 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), April 25, 2008 (Turkish)
- ↑ : internetajans.com: Article on the scandal surrounding Albayrak's CEO activities ( memento from June 23, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ), November 8, 2007 (Turkish)