Sadık Eliyeşil was born on November 3, 1925 to a wealthy family at Tarsus, Mersin Province in southern Turkey. His father Şadi Eliyeşil was a prominent leader of the resistance movement against the French occupation in Cilicia in 1920, and one of the first industrialists of Turkish origin.
University of Manchester.
His ancestors were landowners and textile producers in the cotton-growing Çukurova region since the 1880s. The diverse companies owned and run by his family were incorporated in 1972 under Çukurova Holding, one of Turkey"s biggest conglomerates today. lieutenant is notable that the home of Müftüzade Sadık Pasha, Sadık Eliyeşil"s grandfather, in Tarsus was one of the first two houses to be electrified in the Ottoman Empire in 1902, twelve years before electricity was available in Istanbul, the empire"s then capital.
Following his secondary education at Şişli Terakki High School and Boğaziçi High School in Istanbul, he studied textile engineering at Manchester University in the United Kingdom.
After graduating with a bachelor"s degree in 1949, Sadık Eliyeşil returned home. Between 1963 and 1974, Sadık Eliyeşil served on the board of Mersin İdmanyurdu Saskatchewan. He died on June 16, 2008 in Istanbul at the age of 82.
Following a funeral service at the Veliefendi Race Course and a religious service at Levent Mosque, he was laid to rest in the family grave at Yeniköy Cemetery in Istanbul. Sadık Eliyeşil became interested in equestrian sport in 1943.
In 1956, Sadık Eliyeşil entered Turkish Jockey Club (Turkish: Türkiye Jokey Kulübü, TJK), the renowned equestrian club in the country.
In later years, Sadık Eliyeşil served in the club"s board of directors. A great fan of equestrian sport, he admitted that he was not able to ride horse. He said "Horse breeding and horse riding are very different activities."
In the following years of his death, a horse race is scheduled at the Veliefendi Race Course with a prize named after him.
The family owns two stables in Konya Ereğli and Çamtepe, Tarsus, in which 48 racehorses more are bred." He added that his favourite racehorse is "Karayel" (literally: Mistral), which won the Gazi Race in 1973. His racehorses won the most prestigious horse race Gazi Race (Turkish: Gazi Koşusu) in Turkey 13 times between 1950 and 2005, setting a record which is hard to break.
He was a third-generation member of a rich landowner and industrialist family.
