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| Today we will talk about top 5 business people in Turkey. |
| The first person on our list is Hüsnü Özyeğin. |
| He is the founder of Finansbank, one of the biggest banks in Turkey. |
| Özyeğin was born in 1944 in İzmir. |
| He went to US for college with a little money in his pocket. |
| After studying civil engineering, he finished his MBA from Harvard Business School. |
| After returning to Turkey, he managed Pamuk Bank and Yapıkredi Bank. |
| In September 1987, he founded Finansbank, which quickly evolved to become one of Turkey's |
| most successful banks under his leadership. |
| Özyeğin is an entrepreneur and has founded 99 companies employing 15,000 people. |
| Özyeğin is a passionate philanthropist and has invested in many programs. |
| He currently serves as chairman of Özyeğin University, chairman of Hüsnü Özyeğin Foundation, |
| trustee of Mother and Child Education Foundation, and member of board of deans |
| advisors of Harvard Business School. |
| The next person on the list is Cem Boyner. |
| He was born in 1955 in İstanbul. |
| He is the CEO of Boyner Retail Stores in Turkey and he was a short-time politician. |
| He also served as youngest chairman of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association |
| to see after. |
| He got interested in politics in 90s and he founded a liberal leaning political party, |
| but couldn't get into parliament and he quit politics immediately. |
| He got interested in photography and often exhibited and published books of his photography. |
| Cem Boyner was honored with the world leadership award at the meeting themed |
| gender equality and global unemployment problems held within the scope of the United Nations. |
| He was deemed worthy of this award for the practices of democracy in the workplace and his |
| work that raises awareness of gender equality in the public. |
| Cem Boyner received the male champion of change award at the fifth woman in leadership forum held in Dubai in 2013. |
| Our next person is a woman Gözde Akpınar. |
| Gözde Akpınar was born in 1980. |
| She is a relatively young businessperson. |
| She is the chairman of Betek Group and the owner of Filli Boya. |
| Also the founder of Gain platform. |
| Gözde Akpınar whose name is identified with Filli Boya sold Filli Boya and founded |
| a digital platform called GAİN. |
| GAİN meaning güzel ahlak, iyi niyet meaning something like good morals and goodwill. |
| She said this is a job she has studied for a long time and it is in her heart. |
| Gözde Akpınar has carried out socially responsible projects in many different fields |
| including women, education and the environment. |
| One of the projects carried out under her leadership was the Filli Boya science camp project. |
| The starting story of the project is based on the aim of empowering women in society |
| and making women realize their own power. |
| Project focuses on equality of opportunity and education which are among the most important |
| factors in strengthening the position of women in social, political and economical fields. |
| And the next person is Nevzat Aydın. |
| Nevzat Aydın was born in 1976 and is a Turkish internet entrepreneur, |
| an angel investor and a mentor. |
| He was among 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the entrepreneurship |
| summit held by the USA president Barack Obama and he is the co-founder and CEO of |
| Yemeksepeti.com Turkey's largest online food ordering platform. |
| Nevzat Aydın has more than 40 startup investments with a total investment value of 20 million dollars and he gives priority to internet companies when making his investment decision but he |
| also invests in companies in different sectors that adopt technology as a trigger. |
| And the last person we will talk about is Güler Sabancı. |
| She was born in 1955, she has held various senior positions in Sabancı Group |
| companies, also the chairman of Sabancı University and Foundation Board of Trustees |
| and the chairman of Sakıp Sabancı Museum Board of Directors and Güler Sabancı is the first female member of many organizations such as the European Roundtable of Industrialists. |
| She serves on the International Advisory Board of Energy Initiative and Columbia Business School Advisory Board and in addition she serves as a member of UN Global Compact Board of Directors involving business, civil society, labor and employers or organizations and as of 2021 |
| she is listed as the 77th most successful powerful woman in the world by Forbes. |
| Okay and that was one two three four five yeah okay guys we are done with our list hope you |
| enjoy learning about Turkish business people and Turkish economy a little bit and leave some |
| comments and I will see you next time görüşmek üzere hoşça kalın |
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