User:Umitdiz/Erden Timur

Erden Timur (born 16 November 1981, Mersin), Turkish lawyer and bussines man.

Early life and career
He was born on 16 November 1981 in Mersin. He graduated from Tarsus American College in 2000. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Law in 2005 and received his law degree. Then he started his master's degree in economics at the London School of Economics, but due to his father's illness, he left his education incomplete and returned to Turkey in the third month. After returning, he entered the construction industry to complete an unfinished project on a land owned by his family business.

In 2010, Timur Gayrimenkul Geliştirme Yapı ve Yatırım A.Ş. established the NEF Gayrimenkul brand under its roof and started to develop branded housing projects in cities such as Bodrum, London, especially Istanbul. He applied the foldhome concept, whose patent belongs to him, in his projects. According to Forbes 2020 data, he is the 100th richest person in Turkey with a fortune of $400 million.

Erden Timur established the Nef Foundation in 2015 to provide at least 51% of the distributable profit to the society.

After Dursun Özbek was elected as the chairman at the Galatasaray Extraordinary Election General Assembly held on June 11, 2022, Erden Timur Galatasaray Sportif A.Ş. He started to serve as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Private life
Erden Timur, who is married to his university classmate Emine Timur, has a daughter named Ala Bade and a son named Yusuf Kenan. Timur, who are also Galatasaray fans, provided financial support to the club in the transfers of Emre Akbaba and Radamel Falcao.