Çukurova Holding

Çukurova Holding, established in 1923, is an industrial and commercial conglomerate based in Turkey. It is engaged in a range of sectors such as industrial, construction, communication and IT, media, transportation, financial services and energy.[1] Çukurova Holding managed its newspapers, magazines and radio stations under TurkMedya, in the Çukurova Media Group, but transferred most remaining media assets to the state TMSF in 2013, in settlement of a tax debt. Çukurova has been involved in litigation since 2005 over part-ownership of Turkcell.[1]

Çukurova Holding
Private
IndustryCommunication/Corporate
Founded1923 Tarsus, Mersin
FounderŞadi Eliyeşil
Headquarters
Istanbul
,
Turkey
Key people
Mehmet Emin Karamehmet
Number of employees
N/A
Websitewww.cukurovaholding.com.tr

Media
Main article: Çukurova Media Group

On 18 May 2013 Çukurova Media Group transferred a substantial number of its properties to the state TMSF, in partial settlement of a tax debt.[2] With various media properties closed down in previous years, it leaves Çukurova with few media assets.

Digital TV broadcasting and services
Main article: Digiturk

Digiturk was incorporated as a digital platform in May, 1999. Digiturk purchases, produces and packages Turkish content. The company also produces television movies and series for Turkmax and owns the rights to most of these productions. Digiturk provides its viewers with services such as Digiturk Mobil TV and Digiturk Web TV. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cukurova Group.

Cukurova provides technical broadcast infrastructure services for Show TV and other Cukurova Media Enterprises through Eksen. It also owns and operates Mepas as a media sales house in Turkey. Zedpas is another media marketing company for Show TV and ATV.

Automotive
Main article: BMC (Turkey)

Çukurova's BMC is one of Turkey's largest vehicle manufacturers. It was established in 1964 in partnership with the British Motor Corporation, and was fully acquired by Çukurova in 1989. In 2013 BMC was passed to the TMSF in settlement of debts owed to the Turkish government.[3]

Maysan Mando is a vehicle parts manufacturer established in 1969. It became a joint venture with the South Korean Mando Corporation in 1997.[4]

Construction
Main article: Çukurova (construction firm)

Construction and construction machinery (Cukurova Insaat Makinalari, Cukurova Ithalat, Cukurova Ziraat and Cukurova Makina Imalat),

Other sectors

The Cukurova Group also operates in 4 other sectors:

  • chemicals (Cukurova Kimya and Daussan Cukurova Kimaya),
  • paper (Atkasan, Kaplamin, Ova Sca Packaging, Sca Packaging and Selkasan),
  • steel pipe manufacturing (Noksel) and
  • textiles (Cukurova Sanayi Isletmeleri).

Former assets
  • Pamukbank (taken over by the government's TMSF in 2002)
  • Yapı ve Kredi Bankası (sold in 2005)
gollark: Unless they have a warrant, you can apparently just tell them to go away and they can't do anything except try and get one based on seeing TV through your windows or something.
gollark: But the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the price
gollark: Very unrelated to anything, but I recently read about how TV licensing works in the UK and it's extremely weird.
gollark: "I support an increase in good things and a reduction in bad things"

References
  1. Forbes, Mehmet Emin Karamehmet
  2. "TMSF, 'Show'a el koydu". radikal. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  3. turkishpress.com, 24 May 2013, Turkish deposit insurer takes over more Cukurova ventures
  4. Maysan Mando, Profile of Maysan Mando
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