Koç family

The Koç Family is a Turkish family of business people founded by

• Vehbi Koç was born on July 20, 1901, in Ankara and died on February 25, 1996, in Istanbul. In 1926, he married Sadberk, his maternal cousin. Starting in trade at a very young age, he built up a broad net of companies, and founded Koç Holding in 1963. He became the richest person in Turkey. His son Rahmi Mustafa Koç and his three daughters, Semahat, Sevgi and Suna, succeeded him.
• Goethe Institute
  in Germany. She was married to Dr. Nusret Arsel from 1956 until his death in 2014. Semahat is member of the board directors of Koç Holding and the Koç Foundation. She is president of the Semahat Arsel Nursing Education and Research Center.
• Rahmi Mustafa Koç (born 1930 in Ankara) received his BA degree from Johns Hopkins University, US, after graduating from Robert College in Istanbul. He served at various managerial posts in the group companies, and in 1984 took over the leadership of the business empire his father had founded. Rahmi married Çiğdem Meseretçioğlu, but the couple ultimately divorced after their three sons were born. In 2003, he transferred his chair to his eldest son Mustafa, and assumed the title of honorary chairman of Koç Holding.^[5]
• Levantine family from İzmir.^[7]
• Millfield School in Somerset, UK. Ömer was educated first at the Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and then obtained his BA and master's degree from Columbia University, New York. After working in several posts in the Koç group companies, he is currently chairman of Koç Holding, replacing his brother Mustafa, who died in 2016.^[8]
• Fenerbahçe SK.^[9]
• Sevgi Koç was born 1938 as the third child of Vehbi Koç. She graduated from the
  Sadberk Hanim Museum in Istanbul, and was a columnist in the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet. She died in Istanbul from cancer on September 12, 2003, shortly after her husband.^[10]
• American College for Girls in Istanbul, and was then educated at the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She was married to İnan Kıraç, a high-ranking executive of the Koç Group. They have one child. Suna had served in various posts in the holding, most notably as vice president. She was also a board member of various foundations and educational institutions. Due to her contributions in education, health and social service in Turkey, Suna was awarded the Supreme Service Medal by state president Süleyman Demirel in 1997. In 1999, the London Business School granted her honorary membership for her contributions in leadership at the Koç Holding and in field of children's education in Turkey.^[11]

• American Hospital, Istanbul
• Pera Museum
• Rahmi M Koç Museum
• Koç School
• Koç University

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