Yıldırım Demirören (born 6 October 1964) is a Turkish businessman, former chair of the Istanbul-based Turkish multisports club
Beşiktaş, and former president of the
Turkish Football Federation
The Turkish Football Federation (; TFF) is the governing body of association football in Turkey. It was formed on 23 April 1923, and joined FIFA the same year and UEFA in 1962. It organizes the Turkey national football team, the Turkish Footba ...
.
He owns part of ''Demirören Şirketler Grubu'' (''
Demirören Group
Demirören Group is a Turkish conglomerate company. Its properties include Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 9% of the Turkish market), the Demirören İstiklal shopping mall in Taksim Square, as well as several newspapers, te ...
''), which was founded in 1964 and are focused on liquid gas distribution.
Yıldırım Demirören resigned from his post as the president of Beşiktaş J.K. to be a candidate for the presidency of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). He was elected president of the TFF on 27 February 2012 succeeding
Mehmet Ali Aydınlar
Mehmet Ali Aydınlar (born 24 July 1956 in Arapgir, Malatya Province) was the 39th President of the Turkish Football Federation. He is a minority shareholder and CEO of Turkey's leading hospital chain Acıbadem Healthcare Group.
Aydınlar beg ...
, who resigned on 31 January 2012.
Personal life
Demirören is an alumnus of
Leysin American School. He is married and has three children. He is also member of Turkish business associations
TÜSİAD and TUGİAD. His hobbies are
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
and traveling.
References
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1964 births
Living people
Turkish businesspeople
Turkish newspaper publishers (people)
Beşiktaş J.K. presidents
Turkish Football Federation presidents
Turkish sports executives and administrators