Remzi Gür (born October 1949) is a Turkish businessman, founder and owner of the Ramsey clothing manufacturing and retail company, and "a close friend and financial sponsor of Turkish Prime Minister

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Early life

Remzi Gür was born in October 1949 in

Kastamonu Kastamonu is the capital district of the Kastamonu Province, Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 102,059 of which 64,606 live in the urban center of Kastamonu. (Population of the urban center in 2010 is 91,012.) The ...

, Turkey.

Career

With his Ramsey brand, Gür built a clothing manufacturing and retail business which he founded in

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in the 1970s, and which has factories in Turkey and shops from

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. In 2013, Gür went into partnership with the Azerbaijani state oil company,

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, to establish three companies in Turkey. Gür is also chairman of Gürmen. Gür is the chairman of the Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Political activity

In 2008, the ''

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'' noted his decade-long "close friendship" with Turkey's leader,

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. In May 2008, Gür received a ten year prison sentence for trying to bribe an opposition politician, which he denies. Gür paid for the higher education of all four of

's children. In 2013, ''

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'' called him "a close friend and financial sponsor of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan".

Personal life

His son Ömer Gür is married to Didem Yurter, sister-in-law of

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, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 2009 to 2015.

References

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