Hacı Sabancı (25 June 1935 – 26 June 1998) was a Turkish businessman,
philanthropist
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, and second-generation member of the renowned
Sabancı family
The Sabancı family is one of the wealthiest families in Turkey.
The family's main business entity was founded by Hacı Ömer Sabancı in the 1930s. Hacı Ömer Sabancı, the progenitor of the Sabancı family, moved from his native Kayseri to Ada ...
.
He was born in the
Akçakaya village of
Kayseri Province
The Kayseri Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey. Its area is 16,970 km2, and its population is 1,441,523 (2022). It borders with Sivas, Adana, NiÄŸde, KahramanmaraÅŸ, Yozgat and NevÅŸehir provinces.
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as the third son of
Hacı Ömer Sabancı
Hacı Ömer Sabancı (1 January 1906 – 2 February 1966) was a Turkish entrepreneur, who founded a number of companies, which later formed the second largest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey, the Sabancı Holding. He initiat ...
, who founded Turkey's second largest industrial and financial conglomerate,
Sabancı Holding
Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş., commonly abbreviated as Sabancı Holding, is an industrial and financial conglomerate with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. The company's primary activities are in financial services, energy (electricity genera ...
.
Hacı went to school and spent most of his life in
Adana
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. After dropping out of the secondary school, he started his career in the family-owned automobile dealing and cotton exporting companies. He later served at several top management posts in different companies of Sabancı Holding. He was also president of the board of trustees of Sabancı Foundation VakSA.
Family
He married Özcan in 1959. They had two sons,
Ömer in 1959 and
Mehmet in 1963, and a daughter, Demet.
Mehmet died of a heart attack in 2005.
Death
Hacı Sabancı died on 26 June 1998, the day after his 63rd birthday, in
Istanbul
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after a two-year struggle against
lung cancer
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. He was laid to rest in Adana next to his murdered brother
Özdemir.
Honorary doctorates
*
Çukurova University
Çukurova University () is a public research university located in Adana, Turkey. The university features sixteen faculties, three colleges, seven vocational colleges, three institutes, and twenty-six research and application centers. Its campus i ...
, Adana
*
East Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus
Awards
* Order of Supreme Merit of Turkey presented by President
Süleyman Demirel
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the List of Presidents of Turkey, 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously serv ...
* "Best Trading Executive of the Balkans" by the International Association of Business Administration
References
Links
Our unforgettables at Sabancı Holding website
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1935 births
1998 deaths
People from Talas, Turkey
Haci Sabanci
20th-century Turkish businesspeople
Deaths from lung cancer in Turkey
Burials at Adana Asri Cemetery