Muzaffer Albayrak

Muzaffer Albayrak is a shareholder - along with his five brothers - and the Assistant to the Head of the Board of Directors of Albayrak Yayın Holding A.Ş., which owns Yeni Şafak newspaper, seven magazines and two TV channels. He's also the Assistant to the Head of the Board of Directors in Tümosan Savunma Sanayi̇ A.Ş. which took a 190 million Euro tender to construct tanks for the Ministry of National Defence in 2015. In 2013, parliament members from AK Parti and government officials, including Avni Mutlu, then Governer of Istanbul; Kadir Topbaş, Head of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; and Mehmet Atalay, then head of the Press Advertisement Agency (Basın İlan Kurumu), attended his son's engagement ceremony. Albayrak group is known to have close ties to the ruling AK Parti and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The group has taken dozens of public tenders especially since the mid 90s, some of which were subject to claims and investigations of corruption.