Senior Management

Ömer Muzaffer Baktır graduated from İstanbul Technical University (Department for Mining Engineering). He joined Pamukbank in 1990, where he worked as an assistant inspector, inspector, service director and as a departmental manager. Having joined Halkbank in December 2004, Mr. Baktır was appointed as an Assistant General Manager on 14 June 2005 and he was responsible for Corporate Commercial Marketing, Corporate and SME Marketing, and Credit Allocation and Management respectively until March 2010. He then joined Cengiz Holding in March 2010 where he served as a CFO and Member of the Executive Committee until October 2011. Mr. Baktır has been serving at Ziraat Bank as Executive Vice President  for Marketing since November 2011.

Musa Arda graduated from Çukurova University (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences). He began his career at Pamukbank in 1994 as a financial analyst. He worked at the same bank as an analyst, a service manager in various units at the headquarters and a marketing director at Güneşli Corporate Branch between 1994 and 2004. He joined Halkbank in 2005 as a Department Manager at the Commercial Marketing Department before working as the Head of the Financial Analysis Department, the Head of the Department of Credit Policies and Project Evaluation, the Head of the Department of Commercial Loans and most recently, as the Coordinator responsible for the İstanbul 2nd Region. He has been serving at Ziraat Bank as Executive Vice President  for Loan Allocation and Management since November 2011.

Alpaslan Çakar graduated from Ankara University (Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences). He joined Ziraat Bank in 1996 as an Assistant Inspector and later served as an Inspector and Branch Manager. Mr. Çakar was appointed as the Regional Head Manager in 2005. Promoted to the position Head of Department in August 2007, Mr. Çakar has served as the Executive Vice President for Retail Banking, Executive Vice President for Operational Transactions and Executive Vice President for Retail Banking respectively. He has been serving as Executive Vice President for Banking Channels Management since January 2016.

Mehmet Cengiz Göğebakan graduated from Ankara University (Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences) in 1987. He began his career at Pamukbank as an assistant inspector in the same year. He served at the same bank between 1994 and 2004 as a Manager of the Department of Firm Evaluation, Department of Credit Monitoring, Department of Credit Allocation, Department of Administrative Follow-up and Department of Credit Policies. He joined Halkbank on 17 November 2004 where he worked as an Executive responsible for Retail Loans; he was promoted to the post of Assistant General Manager responsible for Risk Liquidation on 9 June 2005. He served as an Assistant General Manager for Credit Policies from 2007 to 2010 at the same bank. He worked at Anadolubank as an Assistant General Manager responsible for Loans from May 2010 to October 2011. Mr. Göğebakan has been serving at Ziraat Bank as Executive Vice President  for Loan Policies since November 2011.

Bilgehan Kuru graduated from the Middle East Technical University (Department of Mining Engineering). He studied for a master degree in finance at the Institute of Physical Sciences of the same university. He began his career as a Foreign Exchange Clerk at Halkbank, where he worked from 1986 to 1988. He joined Pamukbank in 1988 as an Assistant Specialist before serving as a Service Director and Manager of the Treasury Department at the same bank. He was appointed as the Head of the Department of Foreign Exchange and Money Markets at Halkbank in November 2004. Having held the position of Assistant General Manager for Retail Banking at Halkbank from June 2007 until July 2011, Mr. Kuru was appointed as Assistant General Manager for Treasury and Strategy Management at our Bank in July 2011 and he has been working as Executive Vice President  for The Management of Treasury and International Banking since August 2014.

Mr. Özdilek graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He has begun to work in our Bank in 1996 as an Assistant Inspector, after working at the various positions of the staff, he has served respectively as London, Gayrettepe Branch Manager, Senior Vice President of the Human Resources Department and Executive Vice President for Human Resources. Mr. Özdilek has been serving as Executive Vice President  for Financial Coordination since July 2015.

Mr. Suer graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of the Labor Economy. He has begun to work in our Bank in 1991 as the Assistant Inspector at the Board of Inspectors. Thereafter having performed his offices as the Inspector, Branch Manager, Head of Department and Regional Head Manager, Mr. Suer has been proceeding his service as the Executive Vice President  for Operational Transactions since September 2013.

Yüksel Cesur graduated from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences. He has begun to work in our Bank in 1996 as an Assistant Inspector, and later on he has been appointed as the Inspector. He has performed his duty as the Head of Department of Training Section since 2005. Mr. Cesur who was appointed to the Department of Treasury Operations in 2007 has served thereafter as the Head of Agricultural Marketing Group. Appointed as the Head of the Board of Inspectors in September 2013, Mr. Cesur has been serving as Executive Vice President  for Internal Systems since April 2014.

Mr. Türetken was born in Antakya in 1962; graduated from Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1983. Mr.Türetken, who worked as Inspector, Branch Manager, Head of Department and Regional Coordinator at various corporations. He has been serving in our Bank as the Head of Corporate Marketing Group since February 2012.

Mr. Sezici was born in 1966 in Ankara; graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 1988. In 1989, he began working as an Assistant Inspector in Pamukbank T.A.Ş. In the same bank, has served as Inspector, Branch Manager and Director of Commercial Center respectively. After 2004, Mr. Sezici has worked in Halkbank as the Head of Corporate Marketing, Commercial Marketing and SME Marketing Departments respectively. Mr. SEZİCİ, who was begun his duty in November 2013 as the Head of our Bank’s Agricultural Marketing Group,  has been carrying out  his task as the Head of the Entrepreneurial Branch Banking Group since May 2015.

Ms. Gürleyik was born in Ankara in 1972; graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics, in 1994 and started working at Koçbank in the same year. Later on, she has served at various positions in Interbank and Denizbank. She has worked as the Deputy Chief Executive of the Corporate Marketing at Bank Pozitif Loan and Development Bank. Ms. Gürleyik, who has been working as the Head of the Department of Project Finance since April 2012, at present has been proceeding her office as the Head of Project Finance Group in our Bank.

Mr. Gülcihan was born in Artvin/Hopa in 1973; graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Management. Mr. Gülcihan, who has worked as Inspector, Manager and Head of Department at Private and Public Banks since 1996, was appointed as the Head of the Entrepreneur Marketing Group in November 2011 and has been working as the Head of the Branch Banking Group since August 2014.

Born in 1978 in İstanbul, Can Örüng is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University, Department of Management Engineering. He got his Executive MBA degree from Koç University in 2010. Starting his career at İş Bankası as an Internal Auditor, Mr. Örüng has also worked as a Management Consultant for IBM and Deloitte. After performing as Marketing Director and Project Management Office Head at A&T Bank, he joined Ziraat in July 2012 as the Senior Vice President of Performance and Profitability Management Department. Following his hold of office as the Senior Vice President of Retail Marketing, Subsidiaries and Foreign Branches Coordination and IT Demand Management Departments, Mr. Örüng is currently the Head of Subsidiaries and IT Management Group.

Born in 1974 in Erzurum, İlker Met is a top-ranked graduate of Middle East Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering. Having his master’s degree from the same department in 1999, Mr. Met also had an MBA degree from Sakarya University. He completed his PHD at Military Academy in technology management field as the first-ranked graduate. Starting his career at Middle East Technical University in 1996, Mr. Met joined Ziraat Bank in 2000 as an Assistant Expert. After performing as an Expert, Supervisor, Project Management Department  Manager and Senior  Vice President respectively, Mr. Met is the Head of Enterprise Architecture Group since May 2015.

Mr. Tanaçan was born in Bursa in 1965; graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Statistics in 1989. After serving as the Service Manager at Pamukbank Retail Banking, as the Deputy Chief Executive at Bileşim A.Ş. and as the Head of Department at Akbank Payment Systems, he was appointed in January 2012 to our Bank as the Head of the Payment Systems Group and has been working as the Head of the IT and Card Operations Group since August 2014. He has taken part in the Board of Directors of BKM (Interbank Card Center) since 2007 and he has served as the President of the Board of Directors of BKM in 2010-2011 term. He has been continuing his duty as the Head of Technological Operations Group since May 2015.