Fikret Orman (born 4 November 1967) is a Turkish businessman and sports executive.

Career

Orman graduated from , before going on to study at Yıldız Technical University, and later at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

in the United States. He has a degree in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

. Orman has been involved in the

construction Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...

and

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

sectors. On March 25, 2012, Orman became the 33rd president of Beşiktaş J.K., receiving 4,025 of the 4,545 votes cast in the extraordinary congress held after previous president Yıldırım Demirören resigned to be appointed at Turkish Football Federation. He was re-elected at the next ordinary congress in 2013, and once again in May 2016. His latest term ended in May 2019. On 24 September 2019, Orman announced his resignation from Beşiktaş J.K. During his 7.5 years of tenure, commercial debts of club raised from TRY580 million up to TRY2.6 billion. During same period, there were total of 77 transfers made in and out, including Pepe, Mario Gómez, Demba Ba, Anderson Talisca, Jose Sosa, Gary Medel, Alvaro Negredo and

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