İrfan Şahin (born 1963, in

İzmit İzmit () is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 480 km2, and its population is 376,056 (2022). The capital of Kocaeli Province, it is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea ...

) is a Turkish TV executive.

Early life and education

İrfan Şahin attended primary and secondary education in İzmit, after which he trained as a police officer. While attending the police academy, he also studied political science at

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Career

He worked as a deputy inspector at Ankara Police Headquarters for 2 years, followed by 3 years as an auditor at Yapı ve Kredi Bank and then at İktisat Bank. In 1992, he switched careers and worked at

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until 1996, when he moved to Cine5, the first Turkish subscription TV channel. He was employed as a manager there until 2004, with a hiatus in 1998 when he made a brief return to the banking sector. He also held a position as general manager at the monthly magazine ''

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''. He started to work for

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as a general manager at ANS Production Company in 2004. He was the creator and producer of the TV series '' Gümüş''. In 2006, Şahin became head of the TV channel

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, owned by the Doğan Group. In 2010, he was became CEO of Doğan TV Holding. He left Doğan Group in 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahin, Irfan Turkish television people Living people 1963 births People from İzmit