# The Sabancı family

From a cotton mill in Adana to a holding company, and the granddaughter who ended up running it.

Source: https://netgraf.isik.co/m/sabanci-family
Kind: Real
Summary: 11 people, 16 relationships, 1906 to 2021
Structure: average 2.7 connections each, 27% of the possible ties drawn, 3 communities

## People (11)

- Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Founder, from Adana, 1906 to 1966
- Sadıka Sabancı, Hacı Ömer's wife
- İhsan Sabancı, Eldest son, 1931 to 1979
- Sakıp Sabancı, Chairman 1967 to 2004, 1933 to 2004
- Hacı Sabancı, Second generation, 1935 to 1998
- Şevket Sabancı, Second generation, 1936 to 2021
- Erol Sabancı, Second generation, banking, from 1938
- Özdemir Sabancı, Second generation, 1941 to 1996
- Güler Sabancı, Chair of Sabancı Holding since 2004, from 1955
- Demir Sabancı, Entrepreneur and investor, from 1971
- Serra Sabancı, Board member, Sabancı Holding, from 1975

## Relationships (16)

- Hacı Ömer Sabancı and Sadıka Sabancı: married to (family, confirmed) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hac%C4%B1_%C3%96mer_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı -> İhsan Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1931) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0hsan_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı -> Sakıp Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1933) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C4%B1p_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı -> Hacı Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1935) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hac%C4%B1_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı -> Şevket Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1936) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eevket_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı -> Erol Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1938) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı -> Özdemir Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1941) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zdemir_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- İhsan Sabancı -> Güler Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1955) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guler_Sabanci]
- Özdemir Sabancı -> Demir Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1971) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demir_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Özdemir Sabancı -> Serra Sabancı: father of (family, confirmed, from 1975) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zdemir_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Sakıp Sabancı -> Hacı Ömer Sabancı: took over the group (business, confirmed, 1967) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C4%B1p_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Güler Sabancı -> Sakıp Sabancı: succeeded (business, confirmed, 2004) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guler_Sabanci]
- Sakıp Sabancı and Hacı Sabancı: built the group with (business, confirmed, 1967 to 1998) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C4%B1p_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Sakıp Sabancı and Şevket Sabancı: built the group with (business, confirmed, 1967 to 2004) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eevket_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Sakıp Sabancı and Erol Sabancı: built the group with (business, confirmed, 1967 to 2004) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol_Sabanc%C4%B1]
- Sakıp Sabancı and Özdemir Sabancı: built the group with (business, confirmed, 1967 to 1996) [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zdemir_Sabanc%C4%B1]

## Tour (3 steps)

1. Hacı Ömer Sabancı arrived in Adana as a seasonal cotton picker and left behind one of Türkiye's two great industrial groups.
2. Six sons. Five of them built the companies, and Sakıp ran the whole thing for 37 years.
3. The succession skipped sideways and down a generation: Güler, daughter of the eldest son, took the chair in 2004 and still holds it.

## Sources

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hac%C4%B1_%C3%96mer_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0hsan_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C4%B1p_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hac%C4%B1_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eevket_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zdemir_Sabanc%C4%B1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guler_Sabanci
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demir_Sabanc%C4%B1