How Did Özyeğin Lose Turkcell to Karamehmet?

Undoubtedly, the lives of successful business people are with the risks and strategic decisions taken full. However, not every decision taken ends with happiness and pride.

In the lives of business people missed opportunities The regrets it creates linger as much as the pride it generates from the opportunities seized.

Founder of Fiba Holding, one of Turkey’s leading conglomerates Hüsnü Özyeğin He is one of the valuable business people of our country. Now let’s take a journey into his biggest regret.

The offer, which would later be Hüsnü Özyeğin’s biggest regret, comes from Murat Vargı, his military friend.

In an interview given by Özyeğin, he said that in 1975, in Iskenderun, he was the founder of Turkcell. Murat Vargi He is doing his military service at the same time.

“Money attracts money.” This is like proof of your word friendship born by chance It continues uninterrupted over the years.

In 1992, Vargı made an offer to Özyeğin to become a partner in Turkcell.

Murat Vargı, who had a very visionary approach in those years, saw the future of mobile phone operators and He is rolling up his sleeves to establish Turkcell. But it needs a partner.

When he set out to realize his dream of establishing Turkcell, which would later become Turkey’s first mobile phone operator, His first offer was to his soldier friend Hüsnü Özyeğin. takes away.

Hüsnü Özyeğin, who had just founded Finansbank at that time, could not foresee the potential here and made that decision, which he would later remember as one of his biggest regrets. He rejects the offer.

He doesn’t just reject it. He personally directs Vargı to Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, who will later be known as the founder of Turkcell.

After Özyeğin rejected Vargı’s offer, he Mehmet Emin to direct Karamehmet he laughs and tells “I officially delivered it with my own hand.” He comments.

Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, who saw the opportunity in the telecommunications sector and accepted this offer, became Turkey’s first telephone operator and later the giant of this sector. He brings Turkcell to great success.

Of course, he adds to his wealth. In fact, in 2010, he was included in the list of the richest business people prepared by Forbes, with a fortune of 4 billion dollars. richest Turkish businessman It is referred to as.

Things get even more interesting. Karamehmet gets some of the money he needs as a loan from Finansbank!

Özyeğin explains this situation as follows: “This job does not require that much money. Because that’s how the Finns give fifteen-year loans here to sell those poles and equipment. In the beginning, a total capital of around 5 million dollars was required. Now I’ll tell you something funnier. Karamehmet came, he took it from me 5 million dollars loan from Finansbank took.”

In other words, Özyeğin did not want to spend on another business line. the money from the offer he rejected In fact, it seems like it came from Özyeğin again.

Turkcell’s market value is currently at full 190 billion TL. The fish that escapes are sometimes very big indeed.

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