Founder, Özdemir Consulting Co.
Erdal Özdemir was born in Karaman in 1966 as the youngest child of the Özdemir family with three children. His father Hüseyin was a police officer and his mother Elmas Hanım was a housewife. He attended primary school in Akşehir and Balıkesir cities, and middle school and high school in Kahramanmaraş city. During his primary and middle school years, he worked as a copper and iron forge master in the industry, and carving stone walls of church and mosque constructions. While continuing his education in the Metal Works department of Kahramanmaraş Industrial Vocational High School, he worked as a welder at the Afşin Elbistan Thermal Power Plant. During his years as a high altitude welder, he entered the night department of Yıldız University of Civil Engineering and continued to work as a welder at the Botaş Gebze facilities in the same year. He worked in steel construction at Maya İnşaat until the year he graduated from civil engineering.
