Çelebi, one of Turkey’s premier global brands, is celebrating its 55th anniversary. Rising on foundations originally laid in 1958, the Çelebi Group today is a leading international player employing more than 13,500 people in four sectors in five countries on two continents.

The first privately-owned company to have a presence in Turkey’s civil aviation industry and a leading global name today, Çelebi is proud and happy to be celebrating its 55th anniversary. Launched on 1 February 1958 by Ali Cavit Çelebioğlu with just a single boarding ramp and only five employees, the Çelebi Group is now a preferred and admired participant in national and international markets as a global brand serving customers with more than 13,500 employees in five countries on two continents in sectors ranging from aviation to foods and from maritime operations and services to transport.

55 years of honor and pride

Having taken up the standard from their father Ali Cavit Çelebioğlu and made the Çelebi Group what it is today, Can Çelebioğlu and Canan Çelebioğlu Tokgöz say that Çelebi’s fifty-five years of honor and pride belong not just to the Çelebioğlu family but to Çelebi employees, customers, and business partners, as well as to the whole country as well.

Çelebi Holding Chairman Can Çelebioğlu and Deputy Chairwoman Canan Çelebioğlu Tokgöz declared “There are so many reasons for us to feel honor and pride in our 55th year as a company: Because we are a global organization possessing skills and qualifications that so many other companies aspire to have… Because we have become a huge family that has grown and expanded together from those original five people in 1958 to more than 13,500 individuals with many different languages, religions, nationalities, and cultures in five countries on two continents… Because we were never content to remain at home but instead seized the opportunity to carry the banner of the Turkish civil aviation industry and the Çelebi name abroad as we successfully took our internationally-recognized high-quality service and standards into the international arenas of Europe and Asia… Because we are able to contribute to education and health and to help protect the environment through projects that knit us into the community… Çelebi today is a global brand which is successful and which commands significant business volumes in other sectors as well as aviation. We share the honor and excitement of this, our 55th year, not just with our employees, customers, and business partners but with our whole country as well.”