Mehmet Emin Karamehmet is a Turkish

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Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 businessman. He is the Chairman of Turkey

Turkey

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's Çukurova Holding conglomerate

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 and is the richest man in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 with a personal fortune estimated at US$4 billion.

Mehmet Emin Karamehmet was re-appointed the Chairman of the Board of Directors on May 8, 2009 and served as Chairman until February 2010. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cukurova Holding, BMC, Cukurova Havacilik and Noksel, and a member of the Board of Directors of Cukurova Insaat Makinalari A.S. Karamehmet attended Dover College

Dover College

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, Kent, England

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, and Robert College

Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and...

, Turkey.