Mehmet Rüştü Başaran (born 1946/47) is a Turkish

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman, the head of Habas Industrial and Medical Gases Production Industries, one of Turkey's largest steel producers. In 2018, Mehmet Rustu Basaran ranked #1999 on the ''Forbes'' World's Billionaires list, with wealth listed at US$1.1 billion. Habas was founded by his father Hamdi Basaran in 1956. he is the chairman and part owner of

Anadolubank Anadolubank A.Ş. is a Turkish bank bought in 1997 by HABAŞ Grubu from the Prime Ministry Privatization Administration of Turkey (T.C. Başbakanlık Özelleştirme İdaresi Başkanlığı) Anadolubank currently maintains 106 branches throughout ...

. Başaran is divorced, and lives in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, Turkey.

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