Turkey Ukraine Businesspeople Association (TUID) is a businessmen’s association founded in 2004 in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, by a group of Turkish businessmen, under the auspices of the Republic of Türkiye Embassy in Kiev. Today, it operates with its branches spread throughout Ukraine, based in Kiev, and its Istanbul representative office, and the efforts to open branches in other cities of Ukraine are continuing. Members of the association include Eczacıbaşı, Arkas Holding, our pioneer airline company THY, the largest Turkish bank in Ukraine Credit Europe, Lifecell(Turkcell), Onur İnşaat, Dalgakıran, Nobel İlaç, Colin’s, Evyap, as well as the EBRD. International groups such as BASF, Hilton, Intercontinental and Reckitt Benkiser also have Turkish executives in the country. Many medium and small-scale Turkish and Ukrainian companies in Ukraine from different sectors are members of TUID, which has adopted being inclusive since the day it was founded.
He was born in 1978 in Istanbul. After graduating from Suadiye Turhan ve Mediha Tansel Primary School ranking first in class, he completed his secondary and high school education at Istanbul Erkek High School. In high school, he won three Istanbul championships in chess with the school team. While he received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Business Administration, he served as the two-term president of the Industrial Engineering Club (İTÜ EMK), which is one of Turkey’s largest and most active student associations.
After graduation, he held managerial positions in the machinery and construction sectors in Turkey. Since 2003, he made many trips to Eastern European countries, especially Ukraine and Russia, and because of his travels and commercial activities, he had the opportunity to observe this geography closely. Burak Pehlivan founded the Kyiv-based company Politek Impeks in 2009, which is engaged in the trade of machinery and machinery equipment and is the market leader in its sector in Ukraine. He is still a member of the board of Politeks Impeks.
Burak Pehlivan has been serving as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish Ukrainian Business Association (TUID), which was deemed worthy of the Turkish Businessmen’s Association of the Year Award in Eastern Europe in 2012, for three terms since 2011. He was elected as the Chairman of the Board of TUID in 2016. In 2018, he was awarded the Great Friend of Poland and Ukraine at the Polish Baltic Business Forum. He is a Congress Member of Beşiktaş and the Founding President of the Ukrainian Beşiktaş Fans Association.
He wrote more than a thousand articles, articles, papers and reports on Ukraine, Ukraine-Turkey relations, Eastern European countries and daily life; Pehlivan, who is an expert in fields such as Ukraine, development policies, Ukraine-Turkey economic relations and free trade in the organizations of international institutions and organizations such as OECD, EBRD, UNDP, USAID and World Bank, also shares his views as a speaker and gives dozens of speeches on these issues. He speaks German, English, Italian and Russian. His previously published articles and new works have been collectively published on his personal blog burakpehlivan.org for eight years.
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