Mapa Group
Type | Private |
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Industry | Conglomerate |
Founded | 1976[1] |
Founder | Mehmet Nazif Günal |
Headquarters | , |
Key people |
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Number of employees | 20,000[2] |
Mapa Group is a Turkish conglomerate founded by Mehmet Nazif Günal.[3] They were formerly named MNG Group of Companies[4] (Turkish: MNG Şirketler Grubu) and MNG Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş. is the holding company of the group.
History[]
Günal Construction, the first company in the group, was founded in 1976 by Mehmet Nazif Günal, followed by Mapa Construction in 1978.[1] The companies became a joint stock company in 1983.[2] The first large-scale construction projects the company undertook were the Afşin Elbistan Power Plant, completed in 1982, the Kralkızı Dam in 1984,[1] and the Hilton Izmir,[2] which was constructed in 1992.
In 1996 the company expanded its operations into air cargo, and created MNG Airlines, followed by an expansion into tourism in 1999.[1] In 2013, the company won the tender to construct the new Istanbul Airport,[1][5] and in 2014 MNG finished construction on the Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Azerbaijan.[1] In 2000, MNG finished construction a recreation of the Topkapı Palace as a beach resort in Antalya,[6] followed by the Kremlin Palace Hotel, a reconstruction of St. Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin on the Antalya beachfront, which was completed in 2003.[7] The MNG Media Group launched TV8 in 1999, which was sold to Acun Ilıcalı and the Doğuş Group in 2013.[8]
MNG's equity securities brokerage arm MNG Securities was purchased by the Lehman Brothers in 2007.[9][10]
Mapa Construction completed a new terminal at Kotoka International Airport in Ghana in 2018,[11] and has been constructing the Stade Abdelkader Khalef stadium in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria.[12]
In 2020, MNG Group of Companies changed their name to Mapa Group.[4]
Controversies[]
In 2015, Turkish media alleged that the MRG's sale of TV8 was at the request of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[13][5] The MNG Group has received controversy due to environmental concerns around hydroelectric dams, and the construction of Istanbul Airport, which involved the removal of 660,000 trees.[5]
In August 2019, a security guard for Avesoro Resources, a member of MNG, killed a man illegally panning for gold at the Youga Gold Mine in Burkina Faso.[14] The death led to locals rioting and attacking the mining facilities in retaliation the next day.[14][15] Over 500 people at the mine had lost their jobs in 2019, and had been replaced by Turkish contractors.[14]
An employee at Turkish private jet operator admitted to falsifying passenger records around the escape of Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn from Japan in December 2019, which used the company's planes.[16] MNG filed a criminal complaint against the employee in January 2020, noting the two flights involved in his escape did not appear to be for the same client.[17] On 8 May, Turkey charged seven people accused of helping Ghosn flee to Lebanon via Istanbul.[18]
Companies[]
Construction[]
Tourism[]
Air transportation[]
- MNG Airlines
- MNG Jet[2]
Finance[]
Mining[]
- Avesoro Resources[14]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f "About Us". MNG. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "MNG Group of Companies: creating added value to Turkey and the rest of the world". Arabian Business. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Weinberg, Neil; Bartenstein, Ben (3 January 2020). "Ghosn Getaway Jet's Other Job: Ferrying Venezuelan Gold". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b "We've grown stronger". Mapa Group. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ a b c "Türkischer Investor mischt Schweizer Clubfussball auf". HandelsZeitung.ch (in German). Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "Ruslar, Antalya'daki Kremlin için şimdiden kuyruğa girdi". Hürriyet Daily News (in Turkish). 9 September 2002. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Campbell, Matthew; Finkel, Isobel (18 December 2014). "What Turkey's Fake Kremlin Tells Us About the Ruble Crash". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Tv8". Hürriyet Daily News (in Turkish). Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Lehman expands in Turkey with broker purchase". Reuters. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Cowielhe, Dawn (4 January 2008). "Turkey's $10 billion plan". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Chappard, Vincent (22 May 2019). "Kotoka terminal lightens the load". African Aerospace. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ a b "MNG Group of Companies" (PDF). MNG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Das Phantom Mehmet Nazif Günal". SRF. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d Mas, Liselotte (15 August 2019). "Killing at Turkish-run gold mine in Burkina Faso reveals tensions between local workers and expats". France24. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Ndiaga, Thiam (10 August 2019). "Burkina forces move to secure attacked Avesoro mine after one killed". Reuters. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Turkish private jet company says rogue employee helped Carlos Ghosn flee Japan". CNN. 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Ghosn's Escape Jet From Japan Used Illegally, Operator Says". Bloomberg.com. 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Carlos Ghosn: Turkey charges seven over escape from Japan". BBC. 8 May 2020.
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