Name
Sezai Bacaksiz
Sezai Bacaksiz
Ankara, Turkey
Turkey
diversified, Self Made
$1,700,000,000
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#1349 Billionaires 2019
Sezai Bacaksiz and his billionaire partner, Nihat Ozdemir, met as students at Gazi University and founded Limak Construction in 1976.Besides being contractor for some of Turkey's largest infrastructure projects, Limak has operations in energy, tourism, transportation and cement.It is currently part of a consortium working on an initial, $6-billion-plus phase of building Istanbul's third airport, due to open in 2018. Limak is a major builder and operator of hydroelectric power plants, ranking among Turkey's top three electricity producers.Besides Turkey, Limak operates in Kuwait, Egypt, Kosovo, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Africa, Pakistan, Ukraine and Russia.
Limak is building the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline, which will transport natural gas produced off of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea to Turkey and Europe.
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