Cem Boyner

Last updated
Cem Boyner
Born (1955-09-23) September 23, 1955 (age 68)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
OccupationBusinessman
Spouse(s)Bilgün Sazak
Ümit Boyner
Children4
Parent

Cem Boyner (born September 23, 1955) [1] is a Turkish businessman in the textile industry, owner of department stores, and was a short-time politician.

Contents

Early life and education

Cem Boyner was born on September 3, 1955, in Istanbul to Osman Boyner, a textile industrialist from Tosya who founded Atlınyıldız and Beymen brands and the Beymen and Boyner department stores, among others. After graduating from Robert College, [2] he studied at Boğaziçi University and earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. [3]

Career

In 1978, he was appointed the chairman of the board of the family-owned textile company Altınyıldız and of the Boyner department stores. [3] Currently, he is the CEO of Boyner Holding. [4] [5]

He served as chairman of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD), the top business association of Turkey, in the 1989-1990 term. [3] [6] In a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, he describes how he introduced the Advantage Card, which revolutionized the way retail was being conducted in Turkey. [7]

Cem Boyner got interested in politics in 1990s. He founded a liberal-leaning political party, the New Democracy Movement (Turkish : Yeni Demokrasi Hareketi, YDH), and was elected its leader. [8] [9] The party participated in the 1995 general elections. The YDH was not able to enter the parliament, by gaining only 0.48% of the total votes. In 1996, he quit politics due to the poor outcome at the elections. [3] [10]

Family life

Cem Boyner was previously married to Bilgün Sazak, the daughter of the assassinated politician Gün Sazak. From this marriage, he had three daughters, Emine (b. March 16, 1989), and the twins Elif and Ayşe (b. March 6, 1985). Cem Boyner made his second marriage with Ümit Boyner, with whom he had a son, Murat (b. February 14, 1996). [3]

Hobbies

After leaving politics, Cem Boyner developed an interest in underwater photography. He exhibited his photographs taken under water while touring around the world. He collected his safari photographs, taken in Africa and exhibited in 2005, in a book titled Yakındaki Uzak Uzaktaki Yakın (The Near Distant / The Distant Near). [3] [11]

He is also an amateur kickboxing practitioner. [3]

Books

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey)</span> Political party in Turkey

Liberal Democratic Party is a classical liberal party in Turkey. LDP was founded in 1994 as “Liberal Parti” by Turkish entrepreneur Besim Tibuk. According to data published in January 2024, the party has 3,601 members.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aydın Doğan</span> Turkish business magnate and investor

Aydın Doğan is a Turkish business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates.

<i>Uzak</i> 2002 Turkish film

Uzak is a 2002 Turkish drama film written, produced, shot and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Radikal was a daily liberal Turkish language newspaper, published in Istanbul. From 1996 it was published by Aydın Doğan's Doğan Media Group. Although Radikal did not endorse a particular political alignment, it was generally considered by the public as a social liberal newspaper. Despite only having a circulation of around 25,000, it was considered one of the most influential Turkish newspapers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Republic Protests</span> 2007 Turkish secularist protests against Prime Minister Erdoğan

The Republic Protests were a series of peaceful mass rallies that took place in Turkey in 2007 in support of a strict principle of state secularism.

Taraf was a liberal newspaper in Turkey. It had distinguished itself by opposing interference by the Turkish military in the country's social and political affairs. It was distributed nationwide, and had been in circulation since November 15, 2007. On July 27, 2016, the newspaper was closed under a statutory decree during the state of emergency after the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, due to its links with the coup plotters' Gülen movement.

Etyen Mahçupyan is a Turkish Armenian journalist, writer, columnist and politician of Armenian descent who served as the senior adviser to Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu from 2014 to 2015. He is one of the executive members of the founders' committee of the Future Party (Turkey).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boyner</span> Turkish textile products retailer

Boyner Group is one of two major groups, alongside Beymen Group that grew out of Osman Boyner's textile and clothing manufacturing and retailing enterprises. "Boyner" is also the name of the Boyner Group division Boyner Büyük Mağazacılık, which operates the Boyner department store chain.

TÜSİAD, the Turkish Industry and Business Association, is Turkey's top business organization.

Mehmet Emin Toprak was a Turkish film actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Women in Turkish politics</span> Overview of the position of women in Turkish politics

Women in Turkey have an active participation in national politics, and the number of women in the Turkish parliament has been increasing steadily in recent elections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chapulling</span> Turkish neologism

Chapulling is a neologism originating in the Gezi Park protests, coined from Prime Minister Erdoğan's use of the term çapulcu to describe the protesters. Çapulcu was rapidly reappropriated by the protesters, both in its original form and as the anglicized chapuller and additionally verbified chapulling, given the meaning of "fighting for your rights". Chapulling has been used in Turkish both in its anglicized form and in the hybrid word form çapuling.

Veli Küçük is a retired Turkish brigadier-general. He is thought to be the founder of the JİTEM intelligence arm of the Turkish Gendarmerie, and is accused by the Turkish government of being the head of the Ergenekon organization, based on testimony by Tuncay Güney. He was arrested in January 2008, and on 5 August 2013, sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nihat Zeybekci</span> Turkish politician (born 1961)

Nihat Zeybekci is a Turkish economist, politician, a member of parliament for Denizli Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and former Minister of the Economy.

Gün Sazak was a Turkish nationalist politician and former government minister of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). He was assassinated by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front after his police guard was removed. After his killing, MHP supporters carried out the Çorum massacre in reprisal.

Bahadır Kaleağası is a Turkish writer and expert in international relations, European politics, and business strategy. He is currently President of the Bosphorus Institute and a member of BusinessEurope's executive bureau. From 2017 to 2020, he was the Secretary-General (CEO) of TUSIAD – the Turkish Industry & Business Association. His research focuses on the economic relationships between the European Union, the United States, and Turkey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cemil İpekçi</span> Turkish fashion designer (born 1948)

Remzi Cemil İpekçi is a Turkish fashion designer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beymen</span> Chain of department stores in Istanbul, Turkey

Beymen is a chain of luxury department stores in Istanbul, Turkey, part of the Beymen Group owned by the Qatari investment fund Mayhoola for Investments. Fodor's compared the chain to Bloomingdale's in the United States. Beymen was founded as a fashion brand in 1971. London's Evening Standard called Beymen Türkiye's "answer to Selfridge's".

Ali Osman Boyner is a Turkish businessman, the founder of a number of large Turkish clothing manufacturing and retailing enterprises including Altınyıldız, from which sprung Boyner Holding, and Beymen, one of the two most upscale Turkish department store chains.

Boyner Group is one of two major groups, alongside Beymen Group that grew out of the Boyner family textile and clothing manufacturing and retailing enterprises.

References

  1. ↑ "Cem Boyner kimdir?". www.radikal.com.tr (in Turkish). Radikal.
  2. ↑ "Robert Kolej'in 150. yılı onuruna ünlü mezunlar okula döndü". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Cem Boyner" (in Turkish). Biyografi. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  4. ↑ "Cem Boyner'den, 'Ben de çapulcuyum' çıkışı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  5. ↑ "Boyner Büyük Mağazacılık, YKM'yi tamamen satın aldı". Türkiye Gazetesi (in Turkish). 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  6. ↑ "Kuruluştan Bugüne TÜSİAD Yönetim Kurulu Üyeleri <language=Turkish". TÜSİAD. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  7. ↑ "Interview with Cem Boyner". Creating Emerging Markets. Harvard Business School.
  8. ↑ "Cem Boyner'e Almanya'da saldırı". Zaman (in Turkish). 1995-09-25. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  9. ↑ Doxey, John (1995-07-17). "Turkey's new reformer: magnate with a cause. (Cem Boyner of the New Democracy Movement)". The New Leader. Archived from the original on 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  10. ↑ Ergenç, Erdinç (1996-05-28). "YDH on it's[sic] new route with Huseyin Ergun". Hürriyet Daily News . Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  11. 1 2 Cem Boyner. Uzaktaki Yakın Yakındaki Uzak (in Turkish). ISBN   978-975-0027-50-5 . Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  12. ↑ Cem Boyner (1975). Dekokrasinin İçyüzü (in Turkish). Reman. p. 63. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.