Who is Tevfik Arif? Doyen Sports is owned by four brothers from Kazakhstan, now living in Istanbul. Tevfik Arif is a successful businessman with a degree in International Relations and a career in the former Soviet Ministry of Commerce and Trade, where he worked for 17 years. He resigned in 1991 and founded Specialty Chemicals Trading Company, a successful venture in the field of rare metals and raw materials. He was already well-established by the time he established Doyen Sports, and did so mainly out of his passion u2013 along with his brothers u2013 for the beautiful game, rather than out of any financial interest. Arif even went out of his way to support grassroots football community projects for youth and drug-free society programs, as well as a string of community charities in the US and elsewhere.
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