Tevfik Ahmet Özal (born 3 December 1955) is a Turkish politician, the son of former Turkish President and Prime Minister

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...

and a member of the Özal family. He has been an MP, and co-founded the

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and later the Özal Group.

Career

After graduating from the North Carolina State University he worked at the

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and in international banking from 1979 to 1988. In 1989 he co-founded (with

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) Turkey's first private television station, "Magic Box" (now

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). Özal was elected to the

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in 1999 as an independent; he joined the Motherland Party in 2002, and was the party's candidate for

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in the March 2009 local elections (gaining less than 1% of the vote). Later, he would become Deputy Chairman of the

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, after the Motherland Party merged with it in October 2009. Since taking public office, he has adamantly stated that he feels his late father, former Turkish President and Prime Minister

, was assassinated. He has suggested that the

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might have been responsible, because of Turgut's efforts to unite the Turkic republics of Central Asia. In 2013 Özal said that several months before the 1988 assassination attempt on Turgut, Turgut had survived a plane incident in which his official plane lost an engine and crash-landed (Ahmet was on board at the time). The manufacturer later reported a 95% probability that the plane would explode under the circumstances present. He is on the Board of Trustees of

Turgut Özal University Turgut Özal University ( tr, Turgut Özal Üniversitesi) was a private university located in the Etlik neighborhood of Keçiören, a metropolitan district of Ankara, Turkey. The university was established in 2008 by the ''Turgut Özal Thought a ...

, named after his father.

Board Of Trustees
, accessed 2 July 2013 On 23 July 2016, in the course of the

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, the university was shut down by the Turkish government among othe
15 universities
due to its alleged ties with the

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Ahmet Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

Children of presidents of Turkey Children of prime ministers of Turkey 1955 births North Carolina State University alumni Members of the 21st Parliament of Turkey {{Turkey-politician-stub