Mehmet Emin Karamehmet (born 1 April 1944) is the chairman of

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conglomerate. He was ranked the 2nd wealthiest person in Turkey and the 401st globally in 2012 Forbes Billionaires list.

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- Mehmet Emin Karamehmet
/ref> He is one of the most influential and successful businessmen in Turkey with a record of several returns after failures.

Background

Karamehmet has graduated from

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and earned his

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from

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UK, with a degree in

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. After graduation, Karamehmet returned to his hometown Tarsus, where his father was the head of the local chamber of commerce, and established his first company with the capital of 100.000 TL. In the following years, he started to get more involved in the family company and initiated his own company, Cukurova Holding, which became a conglomerate through the years. Current wealthiest man of Turkey according to Forbes Billionaires list

Hüsnü Özyeğin Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944) is a Turkish billionaire. He founded Finansbank in 1987 and later sold the Turkish division of the bank. Nowadays, his financial investments are managed under Fiba Holding while non-financial investments are manage ...

Hüsnü Özyeğin
/ref> is a classmate of Karamehmet. Karamehmet assigned him as the CEO of his bank at the age of 32, which made Özyeğin the youngest CEO of a Turkish bank and paved the way for his career. Karamehmet, via his holding company Cukurova, owns a share in the biggest telecommunication company

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, which constitutes the largest share of his wealth.

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, 23 June 2002
Once star businessman falls from grace
1944 births 20th-century Turkish businesspeople Living people Turkish mass media owners Turkish billionaires 21st-century Turkish businesspeople Robert College alumni People from Tarsus, Mersin {{Turkey-business-bio-stub

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