Kalyon Group
It was founded by Ömer Faruk Kalyoncu, board member of Kalyon Group, in 2013. Kalyon Group operates in construction, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Turkuvaz Medya Yayın Hizmetleri A.Ş., which is the media company under Kalyon Group and Zirve Holding, has the capital of 39.982.829 Turkish Liras (with the decrees in the capital in 2021).
Çalık Holding was founded by Çalık Holding A.Ş (58%), Çalık Turizm Kültür İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (25%), Gapyapı İnşaat A.Ş. (15%), Ahmet Çalık (1%) and Serhat Albayrak (the brother of Erdoğan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak) (1%). Turkuvaz Medya owned by Zirve Holding is owned 100% by Ömer Faruk Kalyoncu.
In 2004, then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a witness in Ömer Faruk Kalyoncu's wedding. Former President Abdullah Gül and former AKP ministers Abdülkadir Aksu, Recep Akdağ, Hüseyin Çelik, Cemil Çiçek, Hilmi Güler, Zeki Ergezen, Sami Güçlü and Osman Pepe were also among guests in the wedding.
According to the leaked tapes, then Prime Minister Erdoğan himself organized the sale of media outlets that belonged to Calik Holding, to businessmen close to the government and these businesspeople were promised to get tenders for public projects in return. According to these tapes, the current Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım was responsible for the funding by various businesspeople so that Kalyon Group could buy the media outlets.
Haluk Kalyoncu (the son of Hasan Kalyoncu, the founder of the Kalyon Group) and Yelda Demirören (the daughter of Yıldırım Demirören, the Chair of the Board of Directors of Demirören Holding) got married on April 13, 2019. President Erdoğan and his wife Emine Erdoğan were the marriage witnesses.The marriage was reported as the company marriage of Turkuvaz and Demirören Groups.
Demirören Group shut down the Yaysat (the Publication Company of Demirören) on October 31, 2018. Thus, the publishing company of Turkuvaz Media, owned by Kalyon Group, became a monopoly in the sector.
Kalyon Holding is among the top 10 companies in the world to receive public tenders.
Some channels such as ATV, A Haber news channel, A Spor and A News were labelled by YouTube as "Turkuvaz Media Group is funded in whole or in part by the Turkish government” in August 2021 (it removed the label after some time).
Among the board members of the New Art Foundation, which was allegedly founded after it was ordered by President Erdoğan in November 2020, are Presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Ahmet Misbah Demircan, and Kalyon İnşaat board member Mehmet Kalyoncu.
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Joint stock company
Business Sectors
Construstion; concessions; real estate; energy; media
Individual Owner
Other Print Outlets
Sabah (10.67%), Takvim (4,8%), Fotomaç, Yeni Asır, Sabah Avrupa, Sabah USA, İşte İnsan, Sabah Emlak, Sabah Sarı Sayfalar, Cafe Ruj
Other TV Outlets
ATV (10.47%), A Haber (1.84%), Yeni Asır TV, Minika, ATV Avrupa
Other Radio Outlets
A Haber Radyo (2.2%), Radyo Turkuvaz, A Spor Radyo
Other Online Outlets
www.sabah.com.tr, www.takvim.com.tr, www.ahaber.com.tr (3.17%), www.ahberradyo.com.tr, www.atv.com.tr, www.turkuvazradyolar.com
Media Business
Media Business
Turkuvaz Medya Group Magazines|Turkuvaz Dergi Yayıncılık (Sofra, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Bebeğim ve Biz, Harpar's Bazaar, Otohaber, Lacivert, Home Art, Esquire, China Today)
Distribution|Turkuvaz Dağıtım Pazarlama A.Ş.
Publishing|Turkuvaz Kitapçılık Yayıncılık Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., Turkuvaz Matbaacılık Yayıncılık Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Production|Turkuvaz Prodüksiyon ve Tanıtım A.Ş.
News Agency|Turkuvaz Haber Ajansı
Digital Media|Turkuvaz Media Digital, Turkuvaz Mobile Services
Business
Construction|Kalyon İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (İstanbul New Airport, Erbil Duhok Water Supply Project, Melen Water Supply Transmission Pipeline, Turkey Cyprus Water Supply Project, Mecidiyeköy-Mahmutbey Metroline, Şile-Ağva Highway, Çanakkale Ezine Ayvacık Highway, Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Kartal Training and Research, Nurdağı-Islahiye Highway, Ataköy Advanced Waste Water Treatment Plant, Tavukçu River Bed Rehabilitation, Terkos İkitelli Drinking Water Pipeline, Kalen I-II Regulators and Hydroelectric Power Plants, Melet Energy Ordu Regulator and Hydroelectric Power, İnegöl Natural Gas, Ömerli-Dudullu Water Supply Transmission Pipeline Construction, Çamlıca-Salacak Water Transmission Pipeline Construction, İstanbul Region Natural Gas Steel Pipeline, Ömerli-Çamlıca Steel Water Supply Transmission Pipeline, Road Construction Mecidiyeköy-Çağlayan Access, İstanbul D-100 Highway Metrobus Line, Ordu-Mesudiye Highway, Bridge Strengthening Works, Taksim Square Pedestrianization Project, D-100 Highway Adliye-İncirlik Crossroads Construction, Construction of Ulus-Zincirlikuyu Access, B. Onat Construction, Construction of D-100 Highway Lane Arrangement and Side Road Between Topkapi-Cobancesme, Koçtaş Side Road and Crossroads Construction, Construction of Road, Flyover and Infrastrcuture Between Altınşehir Square-Güneşli Crossroads, Construction of Eskişehir Highway, Bilkent and Beytepe Flyover Crossroads, Bakırköy Courthouse, Başakşehir Stadium, Finanskent Residentials, Yeşilvadi Dwellings, Vatan Street Tax Office Building, Mersin Dormitory, Şahinbey City Park, KTÜ University Farabi Hospital)
Energy|Kalen Energy Electricity Generation Corp, İnegöl Gas Distribution and Trade Corp|
Concession | İstanbul Airport, Kuzey Marmara Highway, Menemen - Aliağa - Çandarlı Highway Project
Real Estate | Nevçarşı Üsküdar, Nevbahar Üsküdar
Energy | Yeka Güneş, Yeka Rüzgar, Kürtün HES, Torul Hes, Ordu Hes, Doğankent, Kalen ve Aksu HES, Etki Liman Gazlaştırma Tesisi
Industry | Kalyon Güneş Teknolojileri Üretim A.Ş
General Information
Founding Year
2013
Founder
Hasan Kalyoncu
Affiliated Interests Founder
Hasan Kalyoncu, born in 1949, was a mechanical engineer. In 1974, he founded Kalyon Construction Company in Gaziantep. He died in 2008. There is a university named after him in Gaziantep, Hasan Kalyoncu Üniversitesi.
Contact
Adress: Kavacık Mahallesi Ekinciler Caddesi Ertürk Sok. No: 3 Beykoz İstanbul
Tel: +90 (216) 680 41 80
kalyongrup.com
Tax/ ID Number
TradeRegistry No: 880456
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
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Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
MD
Advertising (in % of total funding)
MD
Management
Executive Board
Ömer Faruk Kalyoncu (CEO)
Cemal Kalyoncu chair of board of directors
Haluk Kalyon is the vice chair person of board of directors
Mehmet Kalyoncu is the board member
Other Influential People
Turkuvaz Media: Ömer Faruk Kalyoncu – CEO of Turkuvaz media, owner of Kalyon Group and son of the founder of the group
Serhat Albayrak – Vice chairperson of Turkuvaz Media Group. He is the brother of Berat Albayrak, a former Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, a former Minister of Treasury and Finance and the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was a board member of Calik Holding, former owner of Sabah and ATV, until he became the CEO of Star newspaper 2006.
Further Information
Meta Data
Shareholder information in public records, albeit available, necessitates some research skills and, thus, is not made easy for the general public to access. In order to find the names of shareholders and their percentage of shares, the search engines of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (İTO) and the Trade Registry Gazette have to be used simultaneously, for İTO summarizes the contents of each record while the Trade Registry Gazette doesn’t. However, the İTO database only lists companies established in Istanbul, which makes the search for companies not based in Istanbul very challenging. So, for instance, in order to find a record on shares of a company that is not based in Istanbul, one would have to go through all the PDFs of the records for that company, one by one, which may result in up to 50 or more documents to be reviewed before the right information is located.
It is claimed that Azerbaijan signed contracts with Turkey after the war started against Armenia in September 2020, and the Kalyon Group is among the companies that signed these contracts.
