Limak Holding A.S. is a Turkish conglomerate, with major interests in construction, energy, cement, and tourism. Its assets include the Limak Cement and Limak Energy companies and the Limak Tourism Group. In 2012 it had around $260m revenue from construction. Limak was launched in 1976 by Sezai Bacaksız and

Nihat Özdemir Nihat Özdemir (born 5 April 1950) is a Turkish business man, owner of Limak holding and former president of the Turkish Football Federation. He was the Deputy President and Press Spokesman for Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language ...

, with Özdemir focussing on cement and energy while Bacaksız focussed on airports and tourism.

Recent history

In May 2013 Limak Holding was part of a joint venture which won the EUR22bn contract to construct a third international airport in

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. The group had previously been part of a joint venture which in 2007 won a 20-year concession to operate

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, and in 2007, together with French firm

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, won the concession tender for

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. In July 2013 it was part of a joint venture which acquired the daily newspaper ''

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'', together with TV channel

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and radio station Alem FM, for TL60m. In December 2013

was among the 41 suspects who were issued arrest orders in the second corruption probe. «Prosecutors also appear to be targeting construction companies involved in some of the government’s showpiece infrastructure projects. Those named in media reports included Nihat Ozdemir, head of Limak Group, part of a consortium that won the € 22 billion tender to build Istanbul’s third airport». In 2011 Özdemir and Bacaksız were listed as billionaires by ''

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''. It is part owner with IC Holding of two

coal-fired power stations in Turkey This list attempts to include all plants which generate coal power in Turkey including autoproducers. All coal-fired power stations which sent power to the grid in 2020 are listed below. In 2018 there were 300 MW of unlicensed thermal power s ...

, Kemeköy power station and

Yeniköy power station Yeniköy power station is a 420 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yeniköy, Muğla built in the late 20th century, which burns lignite mined locally. The plant is owned by Limak- IC İçtaş and in 2020 it received 93 million lira ($) capa ...

. Within the scope of the 'Our Love, Our Energy is with You' project, which was started in 2021, the company provided food and water aid to stray animals that had difficulty in finding food due to the cold weather in the winter months.

References

External links

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