Kazim Turker

About Me

Kazim Türker is the founder of Türkerler Holding, which operates in the construction, real estate, energy, and healthcare sectors. With Italian firm Astaldi, Türkerler built the Etlik City Hospital through a partnership with the Turkish government and has a total investment of $1.3 billion. Türkerler has three city hospitals in Turkey with a total of 7,068 beds. In energy, the company owns hydroelectric, wind and geothermal power plants with a total capacity of 534 megawatts. It also owns an electricity company serving 828,000 subscribers in four provinces. In real estate, Türkerler's two major projects - Mahall Bomonti in İzmir and Mahall in Ankara - were completed with investments of $650 million and $450 million, respectively. Türker started his entrepreneurial journey at age 19 and opened a small clothing store in Ankara before venturing into construction. One of his first projects was the Police Moral Education Center in Istanbul.