Nihal Bağlan
Civil Engineer · Founder
Founded Bağlan Mühendislik in 1976. Since 1985, structural engineer on hundreds of thousands of square metres of concrete and steel design across the Aegean region.
Born in Adagide, Ödemiş, in 1955, Nihal Bağlan graduated as a civil engineer from the Eskişehir State Academy of Engineering and Architecture in 1976. From 1976 to 1985 he served as Director of Technical and Zoning Affairs at Ödemiş Municipality.
Since 1985 he has worked as structural engineer on projects of every scale across the Aegean region, delivering hundreds of thousands of square metres of reinforced-concrete and steel design alongside public works and private construction.
In 2007 he founded Bağlanlar Olive Oil, the largest olive and olive-oil processing plant in the Ödemiş area, which continues to trade under the same name (baglanlar.com).
He is married with two sons — one an architect, the other a specialist in business and finance — and four grandchildren.
