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Turhan Mildon, the businessman who served as deputy chairman of Turkish football club Corum FK, has resigned from the post, according to local media.
The reason for his departure has not been made public.
The club had not issued a statement on the resignation at the time of the reports, and what prompted Mildon to step down remains unclear. A response from Corum FK is awaited.
Mildon is chief executive of Miller Holding, a family-run conglomerate that is active construction, mining, infrastructure and international project development. Foreign press accounts also place the company in energy. He is reported to be 29.
He drew international attention this year after marrying Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Habba, 42, later served briefly as a White House counselor and then as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a post she left in December after a federal court ruled she had stayed past the legal 120-day limit.
She then took a senior advisory role at the Justice Department.
The couple married in September at a ceremony in the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche were among the guests. The marriage is Mildon’s second and Habba’s third. Mildon divorced Betul Gursoy, daughter of the late Gursoy Holding chief executive Abdurrahman Gursoy, in late 2024.
The wedding has been followed by reporting on Mildon’s business dealings. The New York Times reported that he has deep connections to allies of Venezuela’s former leader, Nicolas Maduro, and holds extensive interests in the country.
The reports say he took over a shrimp export business the Venezuelan government had confiscated, and that in March 2025 he was awarded a contract to operate state-owned cement factories.
According to the same accounts, Trump aides and U.S. intelligence officials raised concerns in 2025 about his efforts to introduce a senior Maduro-government figure to influential Republicans.
The Times also reported that the administration had weighed sanctions against him before shelving the idea after Maduro’s capture in January. An anonymous Trump official told the newspaper that sanctions were never under consideration, and Mildon’s spokesperson dismissed the talk as a “totally false and malicious rumor.”
The Times reported that Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodriguez moved in June to terminate the cement contract, accusing Mildon’s company of missing investment targets. Sources told the paper she reconsidered after learning he was dating Habba. His spokesperson said the company received a termination notice on Oct. 8.
Habba told the Times she has “never, under any circumstances” involved herself with the administration on her husband’s behalf.
The Times reported that the couple met at a Kennedy Center event, where Mildon was a donor and networked with its president, Richard Grenell. Mildon has said the relationship was not politically motivated and that they met through a mutual friend.
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