Global Relations Forum

Global Relations Forum
(Think tank, Koç family sphere)
Global Relations Forum ; (Think tank, Koç family sphere)
Formation	11 May 2009
Founder	Rahmi M. Koç
Headquarters	Istanbul, Turkey'
Membership	• Ahmet Acar; • Feride Acar; • Faik Açıkalın; • Fikret Adaman; • Bekir Ağırdır; • Adnan Akay; • Vural Akışık; • Murat Akova; • Saffet Batu Aksoy; • Taşkın Osman Aksoy; • Muharrem Aktaş; • Hakan Altınay; • Mehmet Yiğit Alpogan; • Piraye Antika; • Ertuğrul Apakan; • Emre Aracı; • Bozkurt Aran; • Ender Arat; • Mehmet Arda; • Esin Güral Argat; • Lucien Arkas; • Sibel Asna; • Attila Aşkar; • Elsie Vance Aşkar; • Oktar Ataman; • Temel Kamil Atay; • Mehmet Selçuk Atıcı; • İzak Atiyas; • Ayşe Ayata; • Rona Aybay; • Mustafa Aydın; • Gürer Aykal; • Emin Mahir Balcıoğlu; • Mehmet Bahadır Balkır; • Ömer Pekin Baran; • Aslı Başgöz; • Ali Başman; • Mehmet Ali Bayar; • Murad Bayar; • Tayfun Bayazıt; • Ayşe Botan Berker; • A. Gülsün Bilgehan; • Emin Murat Bilgel; • Altuğ Bilgin; • Tevfik Bilgin; • Fatih Birol; • Mehmet Osman Birsen; • Nakiye Boyacıgiller; • Hanzade Doğan Boyner; • Osman Boyner; • Ahmet Bozer; • Fevzi Bozer; • Şule Bucak; • Adnan Bucak; • Lale Bulak; • Bülent Bulgurlu; • Yusuf Buluç; • Fatma Pınar Canevi; • Yavuz Canevi; • Ali Bilge Cankorel; • Turgut Cankorel; • Eşref Cerrahoğlu; • Fadlullah Cerrahoğlu; • Mehmet Fatih Ceylan; • Levent Çakıroğlu; • Elif Özmenek Çarmıklı; • Gürol Çarmıklı; • Mitat Çelikpala; • Hikmet Çetin; • Gökhan Çetinsaya; • Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz; • Cenk Çimen; • Hasan T. Çolakoğlu; • Haydar N. Çolakoğlu; • Salim Dervişoğlu; • Haluk Dinçer; • Suzan Sabancı Dinçer; • Ömer Dinçkök; • Delal Dink; • Uğur Doğan; • Ali Doğramacı; • Tayyibe Gülek Domaç; • Cem Duna; • O. Turgay Durak; • Senem Aydın Düzgit; • Fatih Kemal Ebiçlioğlu; • F. Bülent Eczacıbaşı; • Canan Ediboğlu; • Ekrem Ekinci; • Mehmet Murat Emirdağ; • Fatma Güler Emre; • Yakup Atila Eralp; • Birkan Erdal; • Vahit Erdem; • Şaban Erdikler; • Sedat Ergin; • Üstün Ergüder; • Mehmet Uğur Erkan; • Nazif Murat Ersavcı; • Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz; • Vahdettin Ertaş; • Gökhan Erün; • Selçuk Esenbel; • Yağız Eyüboğlu; • Metin Fadıllıoğlu; • Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı; • Hüseyin Gelis; • Feride Esra Gençtürk; • Murat Gigin; • Gül Zeynep Göğüş; • Mehmet Hasan Göğüş; • Mehmet Nazmi Gök; • Emre Gönensay; • Nuran Zeren Gülersoy; • Melkan Gürsel; • Orhan Güvenen; • Şükrü Hanioğlu; • Metin Heper; • Ümit Hergüner; • Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu; • Ahmet İçduygu; • Ayşegül İldeniz; • Ragıp Nebil İlseven; • Canan Pak İmregün; • Ekin İnal; • Umran İnan; • Erdoğan İşcan; • Kemal Kabataş; • Rıza Kadılar; • Ayşe Kadıoğlu; • M. Cemal Kafadar; • Ersin Kalaycıoğlu; • Münci Kalayoğlu; • Memduh Karakullukçu; • Mehmet Fatih Karamancı; • Ali Karaosmanoğlu; • Selim Karaosmanoğlu; • Celalettin Kart; • Hüsamettin Kavi; • Muharrem Kayhan; • Muhtar Kent; • Emin Fuat Keyman; • Alev Kılıç; • Ceyda Çarmıklı Kılıçaslan; • Mustafa Kılıçaslan; • Üner Kırdar; • Ahmet Kırman; • Yasemin Biro Kırtman; • Mustafa Kibaroğlu; • Rahmi M. Koç; • Sami Kohen; • Sezer Komsuoğlu; • Osman Korutürk; • Bülent Kozlu; • Cem Kozlu; • Sönmez Köksal; • Murat Köprülü; • Tuğrul Kudatgobilik; • Ayşe Kulin; • Ercan Kumcu; • Ertuğrul Kumcuoğlu; • Selim Kuneralp; • Korhan Kurdoğlu; • Emre Kurttepeli; • Gün Kut; • Şule Kut; • Şefika Kutluer; • C. Tanıl Küçük; • Nüket Küçükel; • Özlem Tür Küçükkaya; • Piyale Madra; • Ayşe Yüksel Mahfoud; • Cem Mansur; • Livio Manzini; • Erol Memioğlu; • Muhsin Mengütürk; • Celal Metin; • Emine Gürsoy Naskali; • A. Gülru Necipoğlu; • Bertil Emrah Oder; • Ayşecan Özyeğin Oktay; • Kaan Okurer; • Osman Okyay; • Zeynep Bodur Okyay; • Mehmet Şahin Onaner; • İlhan Or; • Sibel Kutman Oral; • Sedat Hakan Orer; • Ziya Öniş; • Altan Öymen; • Şuhnaz Yılmaz Özbağcı; • Tomruk Özden; • Ergun Özen; • Ahmet Hakan Özman; • Güner Öztek; • Nurten Öztürk; • Murat Özyeğin; • Necmettin Pamir; • Ümit Pamir; • Hüseyin Pazarcı; • Sinan Selçuk Pehlivanoğlu; • Süher Pekinel; • Erdem Preka; • Günsel Renda; • Mithat Rende; • Şevket Ruacan; • Vuslat Doğan Sabancı; • Gülsün Sağlamer; • Güven Sak; • S. Özdem Sanberk; • Ceren Sayar; • Mualla Selçuk; • Aslıhan Selimbeyoğlu; • Süreyya Serdengeçti; • Ayşe Sezgin; • Ayşe Sinirlioğlu; • Namık Özgür Soner; • Robert Sonman; • F. Asuman Suner; • Leyla Tara Suyabatmaz; • Ferit Şahenk; • Mustafa Sani Şener; • Özgehan Şenyuva; • Onur Şişmangil; • İpek Nur Cem Taha; • Namık Tan; • Agah Mehmet Tara; • Turgut Tarhanlı; • Doğan Taşkent; • Fatma Taşkın; • Erol Taymaz; • Harun Tepe; • Ertan Tezgör; • Ali Tigrel; • Mustafa Tınaz Titis; • Sübidey Togan; • Canan Çelebioğlu Tokgöz; • Gül Günver Turan; • İlter Turan; • Füsun Türkmen; • İlter Türkmen; • Kaya Türkmen; • Rıza M. Türmen; • Tomris Türmen; • Cengiz Ultav; • Akın Umur; • Derin Ural; • Agah Uğur; • Emine Uşaklıgil; • Ercan Uygur; • Füsun Ülengin; • Ali Ülker; • Murat Ülker; • Memet Ünsal; • Rukiye Devres Ünver; • Saygın Ürel; • Ahmet Üzümcü; • Volkan Vural; • Mehmet Necati Yağcı; • Yaşar Yakış; • Tuvan Yalım; • Ayşe Nigar Ağaoğulları Yalınkılıç; • Nur Yalman; • Tezcan Yaramancı; • Murat Yazıcı; • Lütfi Yenel; • Selim Yenel; • Erdal Yıldırım; • Zekeriya Yıldırım; • Durmuş Yılmaz; • Hakan Yılmaz; • Kamil Yılmaz; • Rona Yırcalı; • İdil Yiğitbaşı; • Deniz Yuret; • Erkut Yücaoğlu; • Gamze Dinçkök Yücaoğlu; • Can Yücel
	Turkish think tank founded by the Koç family and dominated by corporate interests.

Global Relations Forum (GRF) is a Turkish think-tank founded by Rahmi M. Koç, leader of the Koç family empire.

Own Words

According to itself, it is an independent, non-profit membership association founded on May 11, 2009, with the committed support of 40 Turkish men and women who have assumed prominent roles in international fora and have received international recognition for their efforts throughout their careers. The founding members include former secretaries of state, university presidents, central bank governors, ECHR justice and retired ambassadors as well as leading business leaders, scholars, artists, and journalists. GRF is supposed to be a platform for engaging, informing and stimulating its members and all interested individuals in all matters related to international affairs and global issues.^[1]

GRF advocates a global order of shared influence and accountability and seeks a constructive role for Turkey in that order.

Corporate members

'Corporate members', which presumably have a say in setting the agenda, include Allianz, Borusan Holding, Chadbourne & Parke Consulting and Legal Services, Citibank, Coca Cola, Denizbank, Deloitte , ING Bank, Intel, Microsoft, Natixis, Postacıoğlu Law Firm, Siemens, Türkiye İş Bankası, and Türkiye Sın.

Known members

20 of the 278 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Ertuğrul Apakan	Turkish diplomat who chaired the The UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2010.
Yavuz Canevi	Attended the 1986 Bilderberg as Governor of the Turkish Central Bank
Haluk Dinçer	Spooky Turkish businessman, Turkish Industry and Business Association chair
Suzan Sabancı Dinçer	Double Bilderberger Turkish businesswoman
Cem Duna	Single Bilderberg Turkish diplomat
Sedat Ergin	Educated at Robert College. Hürriyet's Washington correspondent for six years. Worked for Turkish version of CNN.
Üstün Ergüder	Rector of Bosporus University, Board Member of the Vehbi Koç Foundation
Emre Gönensay	Technocrat who privatized the Turkish economy, then Turkish Foreign Minister.
Muharrem Kayhan	Chairman of TÜSIAD. Bilderberg 2000
Muhtar Kent	Deep state connected Coca-Cola CEO/Chair
Sami Kohen	Turkish journalist who attended the 2009 Bilderberg
Rahmi Koç	Turkish billionaire businessman. Single Bilderberger
Mithat Rende	Former Turkish Ambassador to the OECD and Turkey's Chief Climate Negotiator.
İlter Türkmen	Son of leader of the Turkish National Security Service (MAH). Bilderberg boost in 1968. Foreign Minister in the military government after the 1980 coup d'etat. Another Bilderberg when the military formally gave back civilian control .
Agah Uğur	Many WEF AGMs, One Bilderberg
Zekeriya Yildirim
Erkut Yücaoğlu	Turkish business leader mentioned in the Panama Papers.
Hikmet Çetin	Turkish transatlantic politician
Ahmet Üzümcü	Bilderberger.As head of the OPCW responsible for the series of deeply crooked investigations of gas attacks in Syria
Ferit Şahenk	Single Bilderberger. WEF/Young Global Leaders 2005. Richest person in Turkey

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