Şarık Tara

Şarık Tara (born 1930 in Skopje) is a Turkish billionaire who founded Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., with Sadi Gülçelik, in 1957. He was born in what is now the Republic of Macedonia but emigrated to Turkey in 1942.[1] His father Fevzija Hadžihamzić, an ethnic Bosniak, was from Priboj in the Sandžak region of Serbia. Upon arrival to Turkey his father changed their surname to Tara, in reference to river Tara which flows mainly through Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

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  1. ↑ Forbes profile

Sarik Tara is the founder of Turkey's largest construction company ENKA, now run by his son, Sinan, also a billionaire. The company made a big play in Russia as both a contractor and real estate investor; it owns offices, a hotel, and shopping malls in Moscow as well as 63 additional supermarkets, hypermarkets and shopping malls across Russia. Enka is also known for constructing U.S. embassy buildings like those in the Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Afghanistan. The conglomerate is one Turkey's largest electricity producers, and is expanding in the energy sector. Sarik Tara has a net worth of 5.2 Billion US dollars.