Enver Yücel Ranked 4th Among Türkiye's Most Generous Business People

Capital magazine has identified the 50 business people in Türkiye who donated the most and are the most generous. BAU Global President Enver Yücel, who received around 300,000 requests for help, ranked fourth in the "Türkiye's 50 Most Generous Business People" list.

The survey, prepared by Capital for the 9th time this year under the name "Generous Business People," identified Türkiye's 50 largest donors. The "Türkiye's 50 Most Generous Business People" survey lists the top 50 names who donated the most in 2020 among the leaders and families whose data could be accessed. The survey showed that generous business people did not give up on "helping" in a difficult year like 2020, regardless of how their businesses were doing.

Ranked 4th on the list, Enver Yücel, who has devoted his entire life to education and has been providing educational services since 1974 to students from many countries around the world, Türkiye first and foremost, continues to support education by offering scholarships at his institutions to students from different parts of the world. Seeing education as the most important problem the world needs to solve, Yücel defines education as a field of social responsibility.

Support for nearly 300,000 requests for help

Ranked 4th on the list of Türkiye's 50 Most Generous Business People, Enver Yücel serves as Chair of the Bahçeşehir University Board of Trustees, Chair of the Board of Bahçeşehir Colleges, Chair of the Board of Uğur Schools, President of Bahçeşehir Uğur Educational Institutions and Honorary President of the SEY Foundation. Leading in such a broad universe and in a field such as education creates greater expectations of support and scholarships than in other sectors. In addition to the merit scholarships he provides to students at Bahçeşehir University, Yücel provides ApplyBAU scholarships every year to an average of 5,000 entrepreneurial students who make a difference. He also awards various scholarships, including sports and support scholarships, to 13,300 students at the university. Yücel provides support and merit scholarships to nearly 70,000 students at his primary and high schools. As of 2021, through the SEY Foundation, he has also begun providing support and scholarships to students and communities unconnected to his own institutions. Yücel says: "Partly due to the pandemic conditions of 2020, I received nearly 300,000 requests for help. We tried to provide support for these requests openly, discreetly or collectively." In 2020, a total of 1,027 projects reached Enver Yücel from students, institutions and civil society organizations.

In 2014, Enver Yücel was deemed worthy of the "Contribution to Global Education Award" for his contributions to education worldwide at the UNCA Awards held under the patronage of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; the first Turk in the world to receive an award in this category, Enver Yücel received his award from then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.