Mapa Group

Günal Construction, the first company in the group, was founded in 1976 by Mehmet Nazif Günal, followed by Mapa Construction in 1978. and in 2014 MNG finished construction on the Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Azerbaijan. followed by the Kremlin Palace Hotel, a reconstruction of St. Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin on the Antalya beachfront, which was completed in 2003. The MNG Media Group launched TV8 in 1999, which was sold to Acun Ilıcalı and the Doğuş Group in 2013. MNG's equity securities brokerage arm MNG Securities was purchased by Lehman Brothers in 2007. Mapa Construction completed a new terminal at Accra International Airport in Ghana in 2018, and has been constructing the Stade Abdelkader Khalef stadium in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. In 2020, MNG Group of Companies changed their name to Mapa Group. ==Controversies==

In 2015, Turkish media alleged that the MRG's sale of TV8 was at the request of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In August 2019, a security guard for Avesoro Resources, a member of MNG, killed a man illegally panning for gold at the Youga Gold Mine in Burkina Faso. The death led to locals rioting and attacking the mining facilities in retaliation the next day. Over 500 people at the mine had lost their jobs in 2019, and had been replaced by Turkish contractors. MNG filed a criminal complaint against the employee in January 2020, noting the two flights involved in his escape did not appear to be for the same client. On 8 May, Turkey charged seven people accused of helping Ghosn flee to Lebanon via Istanbul. ==Companies==

Construction • Günal Construction • Mapa Construction • MNG Esmaş • MNG Tesisat • MNG Targem • MNG Zemtaş Tourism • MNG Turizm • MNG Bilet • MNG Mice • WOW Hotels Air transportation • MNG Airlines • MNG Jet Finance • MNG Faktoring • MNG Investment Mining • Avesoro Resources ==References==