Who is Tevfik Arif? Doyen Sports is owned by four brothers from Kazakhstan, now living in Istanbul. Tevfik Arif is a successful businessman with a degree in International Relations and a career in the former Soviet Ministry of Commerce and Trade, where he worked for 17 years. He resigned in 1991 and founded Specialty Chemicals Trading Company, a successful venture in the field of rare metals and raw materials. He was already well-established by the time he established Doyen Sports, and did so mainly out of his passion – along with his brothers – for the beautiful game, rather than out of any financial interest. Arif even went out of his way to support grassroots football community projects for youth and drug-free society programs, as well as a string of community charities in the US and elsewhere.