24.10.2025 19:02
In a statement made by Türk Telekom to the Public Disclosure Platform, it was announced that the Board of Directors has decided to appoint Ebubekir Şahin as the General Manager. Şahin, who has been elected as the President of the RTÜK four times since January 2019, had handed over his position to Mehmet Daniş after the expiration of his term.
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After the end of his term, former Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) President Ebubekir Şahin, who handed over his position to Mehmet Daniş, has been assigned a new role.
NEW ROLE FOR EBUBEKİR ŞAHİN
Şahin has become the new general manager of Türk Telekom. In a statement made by Türk Telekom to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP), it was stated that the Board of Directors decided to appoint Şahin as General Manager.
HIS TERM HAD EXPIRED
Ebubekir Şahin, who has served as the President of RTÜK for four terms, did not run for the presidency this term. After Şahin's term ended, the members of the Supreme Council gathered to determine the new president, and Mehmet Daniş was elected as the President of RTÜK, while Orhan Karadaş was elected as the Vice President.
WHO IS EBUBEKİR ŞAHİN?
He was born in 1974 in Çayeli, Rize. He completed his primary education in Rize and his high school education in Sakarya. He graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Communication in 1995. In 2002, he completed his Master's degree in the Department of Journalism.
He has served in various roles, including as a civil servant in the Ministry of Interior and the General Directorate of Security, as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) during the Refah-Yol governments, and as the Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and as a consultant to the Radio and Television Supreme Council, and the Prime Ministry's Public Relations Consultancy. He then held the positions of Administrative and Financial Affairs Department Head, Deputy General Manager, and Acting General Manager at Anadolu Agency between 2011 and 2014.
Between 2014 and 2017, he served as the Deputy Undersecretary and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies.
According to Article 35 of the RTÜK Law No. 6112, he was elected as a member of the Radio and Television Supreme Council from the AK Party quota in the elections held in the TBMM General Assembly on 16.10.2017. After serving for a while as a member, Şahin was elected as the President of the Supreme Council in the elections held on 23.01.2019, and he was re-elected on 18.10.2023, serving his fourth term as the President of RTÜK.
Ebubekir Şahin, who is married and a father of two children, speaks English.
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