Bedrettin Dalan (born 18 July 1941) is a Turkish engineer, former politician and the first mayor of Greater Istanbul.
He is the founder of İSTEK Vakfı, a foundation for education and culture, and Yeditepe University in Istanbul.
After finishing high school in Germencik, Aydın, where he lived with his parents and seven siblings, Dalan attended the Faculty of Maçka at the Istanbul Technical University, and graduated in 1963 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Bedrettin Dalan worked as a top executive in business, and lectured at Marmara University and Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts.
Dedicating himself to education, he founded İstanbul Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı (İSTEK Vakfı), a foundation, which opened a number of prestigious private educational institutions in Istanbul such as primary and secondary schools, middle and high schools.
[6] Dalan was charged in the Ergenekon trials, and the subject of an Interpol red notice as he was abroad at the time.