Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Seeing children’s magazines among the books he took to the front showed me his devotion to education and leadership, and it gave me my love of reading and learning.
About
I am devoted to helping people reach their full potential.
People who act with integrity even when no one is watching become the example of honesty in their organisation. Only someone who acts ethically in every situation can be trusted, and candour makes the urge to control fade.
I see myself as a management engineer. Using what I have learned to make a positive difference in other people’s lives fills me with passion.
I feel I owe a debt to the planet, to nature and wildlife, to the universe and to our ancestors, and I believe I have to work to repay it.
Taking part in activism with my wife, helping those in need while building steady prosperity for my family and my community: that is what drives me.
Career
2026–present
AmerikaTapu
Founder and managing director
A TeamBirlik brand advising Turkish investors who want to buy homes in the US.
2024–present
BTA NJ Inc.
Founder and general manager ·
The company I founded to bring my real estate experience from Turkey to the US market; an affiliate of BTA Gayrimenkul Ticaret A.Ş.
2019–present
TeamBirlik
Team leader ·
I founded and lead my real estate brokerage team.
2014–present
Keller Williams
Managing partner, owner ·
I started as co-founder of Alesta and team leader at KW. When the average real estate office in Turkey had 12–13 consultants, I led growth past 100 consultants in our first year. As co-founder and team leader of KW Viya, my team and I built one of İzmir's leading offices. We ran KW Alesta and KW Viya with the goal of becoming Turkey's top-selling office and reached 1,000 sales for the first time in a short period. With no coaches yet for the new brand, I became the first KW coach, delivered over 700 hours of training in my first year, then built a teaching team of more than 30 trainers. Today I own the KW Alesta, KW Viya and KW Orsa offices.
2012–2014
Opet Fuchs
Business development manager, Turkey
I built nationwide sales of industrial chemicals to foundries, mining and forging. With sales forecasting, market research and a sales team, we grew market share in my product groups from 3% to 25–30%.
2012 (set-up phase)
Sabaf
Foundry manager ·
I set up the foundry at Sabaf Italy's Manisa plant and recruited and trained its maintenance, mould, electrical and production staff.
2008–2012
Componenta
Production engineer
I led TPM and autonomous maintenance, ran kaizen activities, led Six Sigma improvement projects and managed a 96-person production team making automotive parts.
2007–2009
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
Instructor
I taught evening students in mechanical engineering: IT basics, office software, CAD/CAM, statics, strength of materials, dynamics and materials science.
2005–2007
Mareks Enjeksiyon ve Kalıp
Production manager
I was technical consultant during the set-up of a high-pressure aluminium die-casting and machining foundry and led its 65-person production team.
2004–2005
Dirinler Döküm
Part-time
I studied by day and worked nights in the foundry, 60–70 hours a week, including on 26-tonne single-piece castings.
Education
2021–present
Sociology
Anadolu Üniversitesi
2018–2020
Real Estate Management
Anadolu Üniversitesi
2006–2012
Business Administration, master’s, management science
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Academic work: a SERVQUAL service-quality survey in an educational institution; game theory and a model of local elections.
2000–2005
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
Thesis: SiC additions and the mechanical properties of grey cast iron.
Certificates
- Tolerancing and Tolerance Standards · Renault, 2011
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing · Renault, 2011
- Lean Manufacturing · S.P.A.C, 2011
- Six Sigma Green Belt · S.P.A.C, 2011
- Six Sigma Team Member · S.P.A.C, 2010
- Financial Mathematics · Componenta, 2009
- Leadership · Componenta, 2009
- TPM · GEMBA, 2008
- UG NX4.0 CAD/CAM · Boğaziçi CAD-CAM, 2007
- UG NX3.0 CAD/CAM · Boğaziçi CAD-CAM, 2005
- SolidWorks 2004 · TMMOB Makine Mühendisleri Odası İzmir, 2004
Courses (2006–2011)
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- ABB S7 Robotics
- SMED
- Autonomous Maintenance
- Kaizen
- ISO/TS 16949 (introduction, process management, MSA, APQP, PPAP, SPC)
- 8D problem solving
- Six Sigma introduction
- NETSIS W3 ERP
- ISO 9000
- 5S
Achievements and community work
2018–present
İzmir Ticaret Odası
Head of the real estate committee
We stood three months before the election and, with our colleagues’ trust, won against a team that had held office for 24 years. With no real estate trade regulation in place, we worked alongside the ministry and contributed to the education requirement and the licensing system. During our term we held twice as many meetings as the other 90 committees. At the Ministry of Finance workshop on informality in real estate, I contributed reports and data to the regulation. I was one of 12 jury members from İzmir for the Sign of the City Awards, Turkey’s prestigious real estate competition. We organised more than 12 free trainings at the chamber for all real estate agents, each with over 400 attendees in a 350-seat hall.
2018–2020
TÜGEM İzmir
Founding president
At the association of entrepreneurial real estate advisers, we worked to bring all agents under one roof, arguing that brands are a choice while our profession is a shared value. We set out to put the industry’s unwritten ethical rules in writing, ran network meetings and workshops open to the whole sector, and organised a proptech-sponsored fair. Our association grew to more than 600 members, and İzmir became the province with the fastest-growing TÜGEM membership in Turkey.
Batı Ege Basketbol
Founder
I founded my own basketball club and grew it to 500 athletes. Our professional men’s team was invited to the Türkiye Basketbol 2. Ligi; we beat experienced teams and finished near the bottom. When we couldn’t find a court to train on in İzmir, we built one with our own resources.
MORE Agency
Founder
Seeing that professional real estate photography in İzmir was slow and expensive, we founded the first digital real estate agency serving the whole sector quickly and affordably: photo and event video for 4 master franchise brands, plus websites, social media, 3D virtual tours, drone and virtual staging for 30+ offices, 30+ brands and 500+ consultants.
Social media
Founder
Emlakatabugün (about 1,200 property photos and videos) · İzmirlilerburada (photos and videos of İzmir) · İzmirinmuhabiri (İzmir news).
Awards
Keller Williams Turkey rankings, 2014–2021.
KW Alesta
- Most contribution to growth: Gold (2014, 2017), Silver (2015, 2018, 2019), 3rd (2020)
- Closed units (sale): 2nd (2019), 3rd (2021); Turkey 3rd (2020)
- Closed units (lease): 2nd (2018), 3rd (2019)
- Outside Istanbul: closed units sale 2nd (2020, 2021), lease 2nd (2020, 2021), gross service fee 3rd (2020, 2021)
KW Viya
- Most contribution to growth: Gold (2017), Silver (2016, 2019), Bronze (2018)
- Highest agent count growth and best retention (2016)
- Closed units (sale): 1st (2019, 2021), 2nd (2018); Turkey 1st (2020)
- Closed units (lease): 1st (2021), 2nd (2019), 3rd (2018); Turkey 1st (2020)
- Outside Istanbul: closed units sale 1st (2020, 2021), lease 1st (2020, 2021), gross service fee 2nd (2020, 2021)
Personal
- Most successful leader (2021)
- Closed units (sale): 2nd (2018)
Our consultants
- More than 20 places in the Turkey rankings, 2017–2021.
Trainings I have given
Real estate fundamentals
- Real Estate 101
- Real estate terms
- Zoning and title law, real estate trade regulation
- Area expertise
Sales and client relationships
- Lead generation in real estate
- Working with sellers
- Working with buyers
- Finding sellers when sales are scarce
- DISC: Adapt to your client
- Persuading is my job
- Social media marketing
Career, leadership and personal growth
- Shift trainings
- An agent's first 100 days
- Process management
- Don't be the silent pianist of your life
- More than 12 free trainings at the İzmir Chamber of Commerce, open to all real estate agents, each with over 400 attendees.
- Over 700 hours of training in my first year at Keller Williams.
People who inspire me
Socrates
He could have escaped but chose not to act against his values, teaching me the virtue of choosing the truth.
Euripides
"There is just one life for each of us: our own." Plain wisdom that still speaks 2,500 years later.
Plato
He spread his teacher’s ideas worldwide and founded a school that shaped more thinkers than many universities today.
Doğan Cüceloğlu
His books have been my reference since high school; he taught me to respect people for being human, not for their titles.
Albert Einstein
He saw beyond centuries of accepted laws, believed in himself when others didn’t, and stayed a humanist.
Hannibal
"I will either find a way or make one." A commander Atatürk himself admired.
Marcus Aurelius
Through his Meditations I discovered Stoicism and learned to focus only on what I can change.
Pythagoras
He made room for women to work as equals in his community; his wife Theano was a mathematician.
Homer
Born and raised in İzmir, author of the first great epics, the legend of my own city.
Galileo Galilei
Tried for what he knew to be true, he still proved it to science and humanity.
Kenan Doğulu
He wrote the songs I would have written for my wife.