Mehmet Sinan & Family Tara
$2.68B
as of 05/10/26
About Mehmet Sinan & Family Tara
Mehmet Sinan Tara is the largest shareholder of one of Turkey's largest construction and energy companies, ENKA. It was cofounded by his father, Sarik Tara, in 1957.
Turkey's leading private electricity producer, ENKA also operates in real estate, tourism, transport and trade (construction equipment and machinery).
In Moscow, ENKA owns a hotel, shopping malls and approximately 370,000 square meters of net rentable Class A office space.
Sarik Tara's brother-in-law Sadi Gulcelik, with whom he founded ENKA, died in a plane accident in Saudi Arabia in 1980.
Sinan Tara took over management of ENKA in 1984 when he was only 26 years old. His son Agah Mehmet Tara became CEO in 2012, at age 29.
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TürkiyeSource of wealth
ConstructionResidence
Istanbul, TürkiyeMarital status
MarriedBirth date
05/24/58 (age 67)Number of children
3Education
Master of Business Administration, Stanford UniversitySelf-made
inherited and growingMehmet Sinan & Family Tara’s fortune is worth
45K
troy ounces of gold
41K
median U.S. household
27K
median U.S. income
0.054%
U.S. credit card volume
0.011%
GDP of the United States
0.008%
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Over the last 20 years or so, ENKA has been the biggest builder of U.S. consular and embassy buildings.
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