Erden Timur

Erden Timur is a Turkish lawyer and businessman. He is the founder of Timur Real Estate Inc. and a former director of Galatasaray.

Early life and education

Erden Timur was born on 16 November 1981 in Mersin, into an Alevi family. His father, Musa Timur, was a construction worker and his mother, Nazife Timur, was a housewife.
He completed secondary school at Toros Private Colleges and high school at. He completed his undergraduate education at Marmara University's Faculty of Law and finally studied economics at the London School of Economics.

He had a daughter named Ala Bade and a son named Yusuf Kenan from his wife Emine Timur.

On December 26, 2025, he was detained as part of an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office into illegal betting and money laundering in football conducted on suspicion of violating laws numbered 6222, 5549, and 7258 due to suspicious financial transactions in his bank accounts. He was arrested on December 29, 2025.