Description: Bahadır Özgür’s column on Halktv.comtr in which he explains the rise of Şaban Kayıkçı, one of the key figures after the Paramount operation.

The most notable name among those detained in the operation launched by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office Şaban Kayıkçı. He is accused of allegedly ‘collapsing’ the Paramount Hotel, but he is much more than that. From the petrochemical facility in Iran to the energy businesses in Saudi Arabia, from the hotel chain in Türkiye to the shipping company that has grown at lightning speed in a few years, Kayıkçı is an important actor.

We also learned interesting information about Şaban Kayıkçı in the days when we first heard his name. It was said that he was a civil servant at Diyarbakır Provincial Directorate of Agriculture until 2008. Since then, his name has always been associated with another important political figure, whom Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has always been with since his mayoralty. Mucahit Arslan It is mentioned together with.

KAYIKÇI’S RISE STORY

Kayıkçı’s rise is almost like a “fairy tale” like. The magic wand here is Gübretaş, which is the right of hundreds of thousands of farmers.

In order to provide cheap fertilizer to farmers, Gübretaş purchased one of Iran’s chemical production facilities in 2008. Razi PetrokimyaDecided to purchase. However, a “hand” immediately stepped in and placed two more partners in the tender.

One of them was Tabosan, which was on the verge of bankruptcy in Kocaeli and declared bankruptcy in 2011. The other one was Asya Gaz, owned by Şaban Kayıkçı, which was established 4 months before the tender and received a 20 million Euro loan from Halkbank and Vakıfbank two months after its establishment. After-sales share distribution was as follows: Gübretaş 48.8 percent, Tabosan 10.8 percent, Asya Gaz 23.9 percent. Şaban Kayıkçı’s brother, Sadık Kayıkçı, was also included in the management of Razi Petrokimya.

Gübretaş has undertaken a new task. He attempted to establish a naval fleet with an investment of up to 100 million dollars to bring ammonia from Iran. The two LNG ships ordered from South Korea in 2013 were received with a ceremony and the number of ships increased to 5.

Those ships went around and around and were sold to Pasco Investment Holding CO., based in the Marshall Islands, in 2020.

In the same days, Pascogas was established in Istanbul as a subsidiary of this company. The company was the renamed version of UBK Denizcilik, which was established in 2019. The founder too Uğur Berke Kayıkçıwas. Their partner was Mecit Mert Çetinkaya.

PARTNERSHIP WITH ERDOĞAN’S SON

The public heard Mecit Mert Çetinkaya’s name for the first time, with a ‘phrase’ engraved in their minds. The owners of the MB Maritime company, founded in 2007, which caused Erdoğan to say the words “There is a ship, there is a ship” on television, were Burak Erdoğan and Mecit Mert Çetinkaya. In other words, the two newly built ships of Gübretaş were the first ships of Pasgogas’ fleet.

SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

All shares of Pascogas Şaban Kayıkçı in 2024passed to . And with incredible speed the fleet of ships began to grow.

It has 9 ships carrying LPG named Odin, Berçem, Duja, Marsel, Roni, Berke, Star, Boğaziçi, Baran. Additionally, new ones named Berfin, Yumiko, K. Aslan, K. Arthur and Havin are being built.

Kayıkçı, who has not been seen much since the days when the Paramount Hotel scandal broke out and whose residence address is Saudi Arabia, has become visible again in recent months.

Last April, a protocol was signed for Şaban Kayıkçı, as the Chairman of the Board of Pascogas, to build a maritime faculty within Van Yüzüncü Yıl University.

Kayıkçı is someone who has become influential not only in maritime but also in hotel management in a short time. He owns a chain of hotels under the brand ‘Duja’. It has hotels in Bodrum, Didim and Sarıkamış. His last investment is in Selçuk.

Last year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism allocated a 79 thousand square meter seaside area on the Pamucak coast of Selçuk to Bodrum Hotel Management, Kayıkçı’s company, for 76 million TL for 49 years. All permits for the hotel were also granted.

In other words, Kayıkçı, who has a rise story worthy of the AKP government, is actually a critical name with his political relations. He appears to be the sole manager of millions of dollars’ worth of hotel and maritime assets, as well as some companies from energy to construction. Gübretaş is now hastily trying to sell its shares in Razi, which has cost more than $800 million in resources in Iran. State university signs a protocol with Kayıkçı. And the ships are lined up like ropes..

If he is part of a ‘gang’ and ‘black money’ organization, we will see whether the sources of his assets will also be questioned.

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