Yagmur Group
Looking up the facade of Grand Mirage

The group

An international development group, since 1988.

Founded in Istanbul in 1988. Building in Accra since 2011.

Since 1988

From land acquisition to long-term operation

Yagmur Group was founded in Istanbul in 1988 and grew as project sizes grew. It employs its own management personnel and qualified workforce, and owns its own plant and machinery, across every phase of construction.

Its work ranges from a 75,000 m² industrial plant to a 16-storey residential tower.

In Türkiye the group has delivered industrial plants for Fırat Plastik and Beko, housing estates at Bahçeşehir and Pendik, schools for the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Housing, business centres across Istanbul and hotels in Bodrum. It entered the Ghanaian market in 2011, beginning with commercial and public works: Bosphorus Restaurant in Labone, the Police Mosque at Cantonments and the Turkish Airlines office. Its three residential buildings in Accra followed.

Today the group has completed more than 500,000 m² of construction across Türkiye and Ghana, with a further 37,000 m² in planning and under way.

Mirage Residence under construction with the tower crane in place

Established

1988

Istanbul, Türkiye.

Projects delivered

27

431,600 m² published project by project.

In Ghana since

2011

6 completed projects in Accra.

Member companies

4

Listed in full below.

Group structure

Member companies

Oskar ContractorsConstructionAccraCivil engineering and building contractor
Görke YapıConstructionIstanbulIndustrial, residential, office and retail construction
Sky ManagementProperty managementAccraResidential, office and commercial property operations
Yagmur Ghana LimitedProperty investmentAccraDevelopment, sales and leasing in Ghana
A landscaped garden courtyard between two residential towers, with residents walking and a child playing

Vision and mission

Architecture of life

Vision. Modern architecture and technology at the highest level, without severing people's connection to nature, built on respect for people and for the environment.

Mission. To meet the oldest need there is — a home — and to surround it with natural and modern amenity; to connect it to social, sporting and cultural life; and to build it with the care that modern construction and architecture allow.

Values

What the group holds itself to

These are the values Yagmur Group publishes in its own company profile, set out here in full.

  • Customers. Every resource the group holds is directed at what its customers need, expect and are satisfied by.
  • Context. Projects are made to sit within the environmental, historical and cultural fabric of the city around them.
  • Standards. Living spaces are created to the social values people ask for, by the group's own management, technical and administrative staff.
  • Method. High-end technology, the right partners, quality material and precise architecture and engineering are combined on every project.
  • Employment. Continuous productivity is used to create new jobs and contribute to the economy.
  • Safety. Buildings are constructed to be safe in terms of security and of natural disasters.

Principles

Generate fast, high-quality projects, and add value to life.

Protect the natural environment, and respect life.

Don't be an architecture of building. Be the architecture of life.

Quality and environment

Quality and environmental policy

  • Compliance with the architecture, applicable standards, technical specifications, administrative and legal conditions, construction technique and earthquake regulations.
  • Current technology applied in production, so that build time is reduced without a reduction in specification.
  • Delivery on the date promised.
  • Training programmes run for employees at every level.
  • Workplace safety maintained under current law for the group's most valuable internal resource — the people doing the work.
  • Environmental protection planned into design and production with the group's own team, partners and contractors, so that pollution is prevented rather than remedied.
A site engineer checking a stone cladding joint against technical drawings
Osman Karatas, Board Chairman of Yagmur Group

The principle has not changed since 1988: build for the people who will live there. Where we manage what we have built, the standard set at the outset is the standard years later.

Osman Karatas · Board Chairman and founder

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