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2005
Toros Agri acquired the privatized Samsun
Fertilizer and bolstered its lead position in
the fertilizer industry. The plant underwent
extensive improvement work, and
production resumed in 2006. With this new
addition, the production capacity of Toros
came to constitute 38 percent of Turkey’s
established fertilizer production capacity.
The Compressor and Water Ejection
Platform, built in Azerbaijan by the ATA
Consortium (Azfen-Tekfen-AMEC), was put
to sea. Weighing 14,500 tons, the platform
was the first offshore platform built by a
Turkish contractor. Immediately after the
completion of this project, Tekfen won a
new tender and began building the second
platform. This project was successfully
completed and delivered in 2008.
2006
Tekfen’s 50th
anniversary! Fifty
years after it’s
foundation, as
Feyyaz Berker
said, “in a hut
that used to
be chicken
coop” in 1956,
Tekfen had
turned into
a company that was
active in 12 countries, from Morocco to
Kazakhstan and from Qatar to Azerbaijan,
carrying on projects worth USD2
billion. Published for the semicentennial
anniversary, the book entitled
Growing
without Growing Old
preserved this success
story for future generations.
Hailed as “The Project of the Century,” the
Baku-Ceyhan-Tbilisi Crude Oil Pipeline
brought Azeri oil to the Mediterranean.
Tekfen Construction contributed to this
project by building the Sangachal and
Ceylan Terminals at the two ends of the
pipeline. During this difficult mission,
Tekfen reached international levels of
accident-free workdays. Shortly thereafter,
Tekfen Construction was entrusted with
the maintenance and repair of the entire
Turkish segment of the BTC Pipeline.
Ümit Özdemir
Tekfen Holding Vice
President, Contracting
Group
The BTC Pipeline’s
terminal was, in my
opinion, among Tekfen’s
greatest achievements;
it was completed and
delivered exactly on
time. That day, I was
happy like a soccer player
who had scored. It was
a very difficult project;
and we were the only one
finishing on time.
2007
2008
Tekfen Philharmonic celebrated the 85th
anniversary of the Republic of Turkey
with a very special concert. The orchestra
performed 12 different compositions,
submitted in a competition in the early
1920s during the War of Independence
for the National Anthem. Complete with a
research book and a CD recording sharing
the same title, the project of “1 Set of Lyrics,
12 Compositions” won the Golden Compass
Public Relations Award the same year.
34.5 percent of
Tekfen Holding’s
shares went
public. At the
pre-IPO, the
demand for
holding shares
was nine times
the amount
offered. On
November 23, 2007, the first session at the
İstanbul Stock Exchange was opened by
Erhan Öner, President of the Tekfen Group
of Companies, who sounded the gong. This
was also the first time at the ISE when a
gong ceremony was held at the beginning
of a session.
70 percent of Tekfenbank’s shares was sold
to EFG Eurobank, one of the biggest banks
of Greece, and its name was changed to
Eurobank Tekfen.
Tekfen Foundation commissioned the
publication of the book entitled
Flowers
of Anatolia
, the fruit of 20 years’ work by
photographer and documentarian Fatih
Orbay and his team. Following the book’s
publication, the Foundation also sponsored
The Peerless Flowers of Turkey
, a 6-part
documentary on DVD.
2009
In a world-class achievement,
Tekfen Construction had reached
33,762,037 accident-free man-
hours at the ACG Land Terminal
in Sangachal, Azerbaijan.
Levent Kafkaslı
General Manager, Tekfen Construction
The work in Sangachal was a very important experience
for us. Technical safety was vital in this project, and Tekfen
broke the world record in accident-free work in terms of
man-hours. We received a lot of attention for that. In a sense,
we became the Kaaba for occupational health and safety.