Turgay Ciner Net Worth
Turgay Ciner Net Worth: Turgay Ciner is a native Turkish businessman with a net worth of $300 million. Turgay Ciner currently owns the Ciner Media Group, a company that manages mass media such as the Internet, film, publishing, radio and television. But that’s not all, as his business empire also includes hotels, aluminium, copper and soda ash mines and power plants.
The company currently has the largest reserves of soda ash in the world. Turgay Ciner has also shown interest in sports affairs, especially football, and has the “Kasımpaşa Spor Kulübü”. Founded in 1921, Kasımpaşa is one of the oldest football clubs in Turkey. Turgay Ciner was born on March 1, 1956 in Artvin’s Hopa. He started his career as a real estate agent selling land in the Hopa area. During his school and college years, he was very interested in the auto parts marketing business. Ciner started his first venture in 1984 by exporting Mercedes cars to Germany. In 1991, the Gulf crisis severely affected the Central Asian markets, mainly Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Iraq. It was at this time that the Russian market began to invest in the textile industry. Therefore, Ciner took this opportunity to open a textile factory in the Uzbekistan region. The Ciner Group made several commercial investments in the 1990s. In 1995, he purchased 60% of the national airport ground service. Later in 1998, the Ciner Group successfully acquired the entire business. In March 1999, his company successfully struck a deal with the Turkish Armed Forces to sell underwear. In 2009, they entered the business of Ciner Media Group. And today, they manage the newspapers Haberturk, Ciner media Investments, Ciner Newspapers, C Filmmaking, GD Newspaper and many more.
