Rank #3030
Kazim Turker
Net worth $1.2B
Energy, diversified · Turkey
- Born
- Feb 01, 1954
- Age
- 72
- Source
- Energy, diversified
- Residence
- Ankara
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Marital status
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.