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Energy giants topped Turkey's Fortune 500 list with oil refinery Tüpraş, owned by Koç Holding, being the champion with a net sales revenue of 53.9 billion Turkish Liras ($14.8 billion) in 2017.

Otokar, a Turkish multinational bus and military vehicle manufacturer, announced on June 18 that it is set to provide 34 buses to Poland's capital Warsaw.

Carmakers were ranked as one of Turkey's largest three exporters in 2017, with Ford Otosan, a joint venture between Ford Motor and Turkey's Koç Holding, topping the list with an export volume of $4.79 billion.

The 2nd Yapı Kredi Afife Theater Awards were presented at a ceremony held on May 14 at the Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul. 

Leading home appliances brand Beko has set out on a mission to raise awareness of childhood obesity in partnership with longstanding partner, FC Barcelona. 

Turkish defense company Otokar will exhibit its latest armored vehicle for the first time at the EFES 2018 live fire military drills in the Aegean province of İzmir.

Koç Holding’s Otokar has won a tender to supply 100 inner-city buses to Jordan’s Amman municipality shortly after it won a similar bid in Romania’s Bucharest, according to the company’s own reports.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said it is supporting a major milestone in the privatization of state-owned power plants in Turkey with a $55 million dual-currency loan to a subsidiary of Koç Holding, the largest diversified conglomerate in the country.

‘Youssouf Bey: The Charged Portraits of Fin-de-Siecle Pera’ edited by Bahattin Öztuncay, Sinan Kuneralp, Guillaume Doizy and K. Mehmet Kentel (Vehbi Koç Foundation, $160, 120 pages)