About

Coca-Cola İçecek is the global soft drink brand’s subsidiary in Turkey and has responsibility for the production, distribution and sale of sparkling and still beverages on behalf of The Coca-Cola Company in the country. General counsel and company secretary of Coca-Cola İçecek is Ertuğrul Onur, who has been with the company for over ten years and from his base in Istanbul provides legal advice for all aspects of its operations. Onur has developed a reputation in the Turkish in-house legal market through a variety of roles at notable global companies including Mobil Oil, BP and Pfizer, providing counsel to assist with the respective company’s plans in Turkey and the region. Onur’s advice in his current role regarding Coca-Cola’s Turkey operation is of a diverse and comprehensive nature, and enables the company to serve a customer base of 80 million people with ten plants and more than 2,500 employees across Turkey. Onur was highlighted by a private practice source as having ‘sound judgment and reasoning along with excellent project management abilities (including management of resources, time, budgets and scope), [and] he is never intimidated by the challenges or complex tasks at hand’.