Koza İpek Holding
| Industry | mining, publishing, broadcasting |
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| Founded | 1948 |
| Headquarters | Turkey |
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Area served
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Turkey |
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Key people
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Akın İpek |
| Website | kozaipekholding.com |
Koza İpek Holding is a Turkish conglomerate. It includes the mining companies Koza Altın and Koza Anadolu (Koza Anadolu Metal Madencilik Isletmeleri AS, quoted as KOZAA). Koza Davetiye is a marketing arm for its print business. Media assets (via Koza İpek Gazetecilik ve Yayıncılık A.Ş.) include the widely read Bugün newspaper, the smaller Millet daily, and two TV / radio stations, Bugün TV and Kanaltürk TV, the latter one having been bought by the holding in 2008.
The company was founded by Ali İpek in 1948 with the Ipek Printery Company, Ipek Matbaacilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S..
Koza Gold Operations Company is a Turkish company founded to explore and operate gold mines in Turkey. KOZA IPEK GROUP has acquired all the shares of Normandy Madencilik A.S. from Newmont Mining Corporation Limited in March 2005 thus becoming first Turkish company in the history of Republic of Turkey to realize gold production in this country.
Koza Anadolu Metal Madencilik is an affiliated corporate company of KOZA-IPEK HOLDING that aims for continuous development and exploration, developing and production of copper, lead-zinc, iron and similar mineral mining reserves.
On 1 September 2015, police raided more than 20 media outlets of Koza İpek Holding, including the Ankara office of Bugün newspaper which on that day had titled with photo-backed accusations of weapon supply to Islamic State militants at the Turkish border town of Akçakale. In an ongoing process against Koza İpek's chairman Akin Ipek and other personnel of the holding, the company was accused of conducting propaganda for the terror organization
Following a court order, the company on 26 October 2015 was placed under a panel of trustees that includes former managers from pro-government Turkuvaz Media Group. Only days ahead of the November 1 general elections, the opposition perceived the seizure of the holding as a move to intimidate media and silence voices critical of the AKP. CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said democracy and law were suspended if a prosecutor was able to seize a corporation without any court ruling.
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