Background
He was born in the village of Akçakaya of Kayseri Province as the third son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı, who founded Turkey"s second largest industrial and financial conglomerate, Sabancı Holding.
Businessman philanthropist president
He was born in the village of Akçakaya of Kayseri Province as the third son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı, who founded Turkey"s second largest industrial and financial conglomerate, Sabancı Holding.
Hacı went to school and spent most of his life in Adana. 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.
Mehmet died of a heart attack in 2005.
Hacı Sabancı died on 26 June 1998, the day after his 63rd birthday, in İstanbul after a two-year struggle against lung cancer. Çukurova University, Adana
East Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus.