Tata Sons appoints Turkish businessman Ilker Ayci as CEO & MD of Air India
Mehmet İlker Aycı was the advisor of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 1994 and served as the chairman of Turkish Airlines from 2015 to 2022.
Mumbai: After renewing N Chandrasekaran’s term as Executive Chairman for the next five years, Tata Sons appointed Turkish businessman Ilker Ayci as CEO & MD of Air India.
Mehmet İlker Aycı was the advisor of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 1994 and served as the chairman of Turkish Airlines from 2015 to 2022.
İlker Aycı graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University before continuing his education at the Department of Political Science at the University of Leeds as a researcher. For a period starting from 1994, Aycı was the advisor of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then mayor of Istanbul.
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He was a executive board member of Turkish Airlines until April 2015, when he was appointed as chairman of the airline, replacing resigning Hamdi Topçu. On 26 January 2022, İlker Aycı resigned from his position as chairman of Turkish Airlines
In October 2021, the government had sold Air India to Talace Private Limited -- a subsidiary of the Tata group's holding company -- for ₹ 18,000 crore.
Tatas had won the bid, the Spicejet has offered Rs 15,100-crore and the reserve price of ₹ 12,906 crore set by the government for the sale of its 100 per cent stake in the loss-making carrier.
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