İBRAHİM TÜRKMEN

+ Responsible for the entire manufacturing processes of woman pants from determining the fabric type, to deciding models in accordance with the market demand trends. + I was also expected to closely monitor the company's financials. + Reconstructed the production processes to fight waste of resources. Designed a program with VBA to track every detail concerning costs and sales. + Achieved over 10 percent reduction of production costs. + Shortened the term of production of a batch by 2 days.

+ I was in charge of running the business news desk of Aksiyon, by-then the highest-circulating news magazine of the country. + My desk prepared at least 1 cover story every month with special reports. + Appointed as the representative of the magazine at Turkey's capital city. But when the media group was confiscated by the government on March 2016, I was called back to the Headquarters and was reassigned as the business editor. + Two months later, I was dismissed by the government-appointed commissary.

+ I focused on a variety of issues as an investigative journalist mainly concerning business, diplomacy and politics. + In the meantime, I penned columns on the local and global economic issues as well as the cultural and political issues at a time when expressing opposing views became harder.

+ I was in charge of publishing Today's Zaman weekly editions in the US and the UK. + My job involved coordinating and monitoring all news-related issues in the bureaus in New York and London.

+ I was a member of the founding team of the daily, which has become the country's highest selling English daily in a short time. + I undertook running the business news desk of the paper, managing a team of 4, while actively running on the field as a journalist. + Our business pages have been one of the primary sources for international circles, who were monitoring Turkish economy daily. + I also carried out one-page-long interviews, called "Let's Talk Business" with prominent business figures.

+ I spent five months to learn the basics of the journalism after which I gave a brief recess to complete military duty. + As I return, I started at the business desk of the paper, which has long been the highest selling newspaper of the country with a daily circulation of 1.2 million on average. + Finance sector was my primary area of interest but I also wrote stories on a variety of other topics spanning from real estate to agriculture.

+ I was a member of a team of four in charge of managing the bank's excess cash daily through swap operations or by adopting different positions in the international forex and precious metal markets. + I was also preparing daily reports for the bank's decision-makers and clients concerning the economic issues along with continuously updated forecasts for the short and middle runs.