Mehmet Gümüşburun (born 1942) is a

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and

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Biography

Mehmet Gümüşburun was born in

Gaziantep Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...

in 1942. He is a graduate of

Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul (, commonly referred to as İTÜ), is an public university, public technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university ...

and holds a degree in chemical engineering. He started his career in 1967 and began to work in Gaziantep Cement Factory. He worked in different cement plants in various capacities. He was the director of Van Cement Factory from 1979 to 1982 and of Pınarhisar Cement Factory from 1982 to 1986. In 1986 he was appointed deputy director general of ÇİTOSAN, a now-defunct state-owned enterprise of

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in Turkey. He became director general of ÇİTOSAN in November 1987 and was in office until June 1992. He also served as the president of the Turkish Cement Producers Association (TÇMB) from 1987 and 1992. After leaving office he worked at Yibitaş Lafarge as general coordinator from 1995 to 2000. During the same period he was also deputy president of the TÇMB. Then he worked at different companies in Turkey.

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