About Us
With its unique view of the Bosphorus, Cemile Sultan Grove is managed by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.
Through landscaping and the planting of 2,000 new trees, the grove has been given a face worthy of its name, while hundreds of its existing trees were saved thanks to the efforts of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.
Alongside venues that host private and corporate events, the grove has social facilities such as a café, restaurants, a swimming pool, a basketball court and a tennis court. Members of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce can use the cafés and restaurants by reservation; membership of the facility is required for the other activities.
Cemile Sultan is born, one of the cherished daughters of Sultan Abdülmecid, the 31st Ottoman sultan.
She marries Mahmut Celalettin Pasha.
On ascending the throne, Abdülhamid II buys the palace in Kandilli for his sister Cemile Sultan for twenty-five thousand gold pieces. The grove above the waterfront palace is known to have held two pavilions, the Orta Köşk and the Cici Bey Köşkü.
Cemile Sultan leaves the waterfront palace in Kandilli to her son Celalettin Bey.
Cemile Sultan dies on 10 February. The same year the waterfront palace is demolished because of the burden of taxes.
After the First World War, the Greek shipowner Likardopulos buys the palace grounds and the 99.5-dönüm grove behind them.
The grove is sold to the film producer Cemil Filmer.
On the night of Republic Day, 29 October, the historic pavilion burns down after an electrical fault. Cemil Filmer later sells the grove to the pension fund of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye.
The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Education and Social Services Foundation leases the grove, saves hundreds of trees and renews its fabric by planting nearly 2,000 new ones.
Our core aim is to offer safe, high-quality products that meet customer expectations, working in effective communication and cooperation with our staff, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders. By continually improving our quality and food safety management systems, we commit to being a trusted and preferred organisation in our sector and to operating in line with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
We aim to meet customer needs and expectations on time, safely and in full. We measure and analyse customer satisfaction regularly and use the results in our improvement work, treating feedback as an important opportunity to develop our quality and food safety performance.
We commit to ensuring that our staff understand their duties, authority and responsibilities regarding quality and food safety, and to developing their knowledge and skills through training, in a participatory, healthy and safe working environment.
We work with our suppliers on the basis of mutual trust, transparency and cooperation. We evaluate them against defined criteria, monitor their performance regularly and aim to sustain quality and food safety throughout our supply chain.
We commit to keeping biological, chemical, physical and allergen hazards under preventive control at every stage of our production and service processes, applying prerequisite programmes and our food safety management system effectively.
As senior management, we commit to providing the resources needed for an effective Quality and Food Safety Management System, reviewing its performance regularly and supporting continual improvement.
Approved by Mustafa Tekiroğlu, Facility Manager
