Demir Sabancı

Who is Demir Sabancı?

Demir Sabancı, a member of the Sabancı family in third generation, is a Turkish businessman and entrepreneur.

He was born in year 1971 as the son of Özdemir Sabancı, who was murdered by a terrorist attack in 1996 in the building of headquarters of Sabancı Holding in İstanbul, Turkey. After finishing the high school at Tarsus American College in Tarsus, province Mersin in 1989, he earned a bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Administration from Boston University, Massachusetts, USA and attained his master’s degree at Cornell University, New York. He married in 2002 his schoolmate at Cornell University, Aslıhan Koruyan, a beauty contestant and the Turkish delegate to Miss World in 1991.

After completion of his education, Demir Sabancı went to Japan, where he worked a long time in Mitsui and Toyota Motor Corporation. Returned home, he became general manager of the electronics retail chain TeknoSA, which was newly founded by his family. Later, he was appointed board member of the Sabancı Holding, and became finally head of the retail group in 2002.