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Koç House
Koç () is a Turkish word meaning ram that may refer to: Surname * Ahmet Koç, bağlama artist from Turkey * Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967), Turkish businessman * Anıl Koç (born 1995), Turkish-Belgian footballer * Atilla Koç (born, 1946), Turkish politician * Cengiz Koç (born 1977), German heavyweight boxer of Turkish descent * Filiz Koç (born in 1986), Turkish-German women's footballer, model and sports reporter * Hakan Koç (born 1980), Turkish freestyle wrestler * Haluk Koç (born 1954), Turkish politician * Hüseyin Koç (born 1979), Turkish volleyball player * İnanç Koç (born 1979), Turkish professional basketball player * Meryem Koç (born 1996), Turkish women's footballer * Okan Koç (born 1982), Turkish professional footballer * Rahmi Koç (born 1930), Turkish businessman * Serhat Koç (born 1990), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent * Süleyman Koç (born 1989), Turkish-German footballer * Vehbi Koç (1901-1996), Turkish businessman * Mustafa Vehbi Koç (1960-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahmi Koç
Mustafa Rahmi Koç (born 9 October 1930) is a Turkish businessman. In 2016, Forbes ranked him No. 906 richest person in the world with a net worth of US$2.6 billion. In 2013, Koç was the single highest taxpayer in Turkey, totalling 37.5 million lira. Biography Early life Rahmi Koç was the only son of one of Turkey's wealthiest men Vehbi Koç. He attended high school at Robert College in Istanbul after his primary education in Ankara. Rahmi Koç then studied at the Johns Hopkins University and received a BA in industrial management. Career Following his military service, he started actively working for the Koç Group in 1958, joining the Otokoç Company in Ankara. In 1960, he transferred to Koç Ticaret, which represented the Koç Group in Ankara. Following the relocation of the Koç Holding headquarters from Ankara to Istanbul in 1964, which was established a year earlier, he became general coordinator of Koç Holding. and moved to Istanbul. Thereafter in 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics of Turkey, population of Turkey. Istanbul is among the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest cities in Europe and List of cities proper by population, in the world by population. It is a city on two continents; about two-thirds of its population live in Europe and the rest in Asia. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its area of is coterminous with Istanbul Province. Istanbul's climate is Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean. The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonisation, Greek col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koç University
Koç University () is a private non-profit research university in Istanbul, Turkey. It started education in temporary buildings in İstinye in 1993, and moved to its current Rumelifeneri campus near Sarıyer in 2000. Koç University is ranked highest in Turkey according to the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 2022 QS World University Rankings. Koç University currently consists of Colleges of Social Sciences and Humanities, Administrative Sciences and Economics, Science, Engineering, Law, Nursing and Medicine. Koç University offers 22 undergraduate, 43 master's and 30 Ph.D. programs. The university is home to more than 8,000 students. The university accepts international students from various countries and has an extensive network of over 250 partner-universities including the University of California, Northwestern University, Cornell University and Georgetown University. Founded in 1993, Koç University has become one of the most prestigious universitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koç School
The Koç School () is a private coeducational school in Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey founded by Vehbi Koç, one of Turkey's wealthiest businessmen. The school comprises a high school that pioneered the International Baccalaureate, IB program in Turkey and an elementary school. Prospective students gain admission into the high school based on their achievements on the nationwide examination for high schools in Turkey. General information Koç School is a high and elementary school fully accredited by the Turkish Ministry of Education, European Council of International Schools (ECIS), International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Independent schools UK, England, Scotland, Wales & NI and international schools worldwide (ISBI) and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). It offers boarding for five or seven days a week for students of classes between high school prep to 12th grade at its dorms on its campus. History Founded in 1988 by Vehbi Koç Founda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koç Holding
Koç Holding A.Ş. () is a Turkish multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. It operates as the country's largest company, and the only to be listed on the Fortune Global 500 as of 2024. Koç Holding's contributions make up to 7% of Turkey's overall exports. The company is controlled by the Koç family, one of Turkey's wealthiest families. Founded in 1926 by Vehbi Koç, it is regarded as one of the pioneering actors in the industrialization of Turkey. Subsidiaries owned by Koç Holding engage in a variety of sectors, including banking, energy, automotive, household appliances, and defence. History Koç Holding traces back to a local general store established by Vehbi Koç in Ankara, Turkey's new capital under construction. It expanded the scope of business into construction and hardware, following the city's fast-tracked development that brought economic activity. In 1963, the company was organised into its current structure after merger o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koç Family
Koç is a Turkish family of business people founded by Vehbi Koç, one of the wealthiest people in Turkey. His grandsons, the third generation of the Koç family, today run Turkey's largest group of companies, Koç Holding, the only Turkish company on the Fortune Global 500 list. In 2016, the family's wealth was estimated at US$8 billion, ranking them as the wealthiest family in Turkey. According to Murat Bardakçı, their lineage can be traced to Hacı Bayram-ı Veli. Notable members * Vehbi Koç was born on July 20, 1901, in Ankara and died on February 25, 1996, in Istanbul. In 1926, he married Sadberk, his maternal cousin. Starting in trade at a very young age, he built up a broad net of companies, and founded Koç Holding in 1963. He became the richest person in Turkey. His son Rahmi Mustafa Koç and his three daughters, Semahat, Sevgi and Suna, succeeded him. * Semahat Sevim Koç, born 1928 in Ankara, is the first child of Vehbi Koç. She graduated from the American Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Vehbi Koç
Mustafa Vehbi Koç (October 29, 1960 – January 21, 2016) was a Turkish businessman and a third generation member of the Koç family. He is best known as the chairman of Koç Holding, a position he held from 2003 until his death in 2016. Private life Mustafa Koç was born to Rahmi Koç, the second-generation patriarch of the Koç family, on October 29, 1960. He had two younger brothers Mehmet Ömer Koç (born 1962) and Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967). Graduating from Switzerland’s international boarding high school Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in 1980, Mustafa Koç received his bachelor's degree in business administration from George Washington University in 1984. Koç was married to Caroline Giraud and was father of two daughters Esra Marianne Çiğdem Koç and Aylin Elif Koç. Professional career After graduation, Koç started working as a Consultant at Tofaş. Continuing his career as sales manager and later as assistant general manager for Sales at Ram Dış Ticaret, in 1992, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vehbi Koç
Ahmet Vehbi Koç (20 July 1901 – 25 February 1996) was a Turkish billionaire, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Koç Group, one of Turkey’s largest groups of companies. During his lifetime, he came to be one of Turkey's wealthiest citizens. He was also a well-known philanthropist with interests in health, education and the arts. Early life Vehbi Koç was born in 1901 in Çorakalı, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of Ankara. He then lived in a vineyard estate in the Keçiören district, since absorbed into Ankara. Purchased by his father in 1923, the property, which was left vacant after the Kasapyan family moved to Istanbul from Ankara during the Armenian Genocide, was later acquired by Koç and became the Vehbi Koç museum in 1944 after a thorough renovation. Career Koç began his working career in 1917 at the small grocery store his father opened for him in Ankara. The first firm he established was called Koçzade Ahmet Vehbi and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süleyman Koç
Süleyman Koç (born 9 June 1989) is a Turkish-German footballer who plays for Turkish club Adanaspor. Koç was sentenced in December 2011 by the ''Landgericht Berlin'' to three years and nine months in prison for a number of robberies and battery. In the summer of 2012, he was moved to an open prison, thus being able to return to playing for SV Babelsberg 03. In January 2014, he joined 2. Bundesliga club SC Paderborn 07. On 10 January 2019, Koç joined Adana Demirspor Adana Demirspor Kulübü is a multi-sports club based in Adana, Turkey. The football department is the most popular department which relegated to TFF 1. Lig on 16 March 2025 after 4 seasons at the Super Lig. Founded by railway workers of Turk ... on a 2.5-year contract. adanademirspor.org.tr, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhat Koç
Serhat Koç (born 18 July 1990) is a Dutch former professional footballer who plays for KFC Esperanza Pelt. Career Born in Eindhoven, Koç made his first first team appearance on 11 January 2008 against FC Volendam. On 10 December 2008, he agreed on a transfer to FC Groningen. He joined his new club in July 2009. From August 2010 he played on loan for first division club SC Cambuur until January 2011. From then he joined FC Eindhoven on loan until the end of the season. In July 2011, Koc was transferred back to FC Eindhoven on a permanent basis. Koc immediately delivered with a goal and an assist in the first game of the new season, during Eindhoven's 3–0 win on FC Emmen. After two seasons he signed with Helmond Sport in the summer of 2013. He signed with Turkish side Sanliurfaspor in July 2014. However, he left the club in December 2014 and signed with Dutch Hoofdklasse side DOVO. Ahead of the 2019-20 season, Koç joined Belgian club KFC Esperanza Pelt. In February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okan Koç
Okan Koç (born 22 January 1982) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a right winger. Club career Koç began his career with lower division club Çanakkale Dardanelspor, before being transferred to Gençlerbirliği in 2002, where he made his Super Lig debut. He transferred to Beşiktaş J.K. in 2003. He was loaned to Konyaspor Konyaspor Kulübü (, Konya Sports Club), commonly referred to as Konyaspor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Konya, one of the largest cities in central Anatolia. Due to sponsorship agreements, the club is also officially known ... in 2003–2004 season. He spent two seasons there until being transferred to Ankaragücü in 2005. He returned to Beşiktaş for the 2005–2006 season. In September 2006, Koç was transferred to Konyaspor in a part-exchange deal including Kais. However, he was transferred to Vestel Manisaspor in January 2007. He was then transferred to Sakaryaspor in the 2008–2009 season. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
