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TURKEY
Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth 
$3 BIL #791 HOSPITALS
Krit Ratanarak  GDP: $847.7 BIL MELIH
$2.7 BIL #887 MEDIA, POPULATION: 80 MIL
REAL ESTATE BILLIONAIRES: 36 (+7 VS. 2017) ABDULHAYOGLU
William Heinecke  TOTAL NET WORTH: NEWCOMER: Comodo, his inter-
$2.1 BIL #1157 HOTELS $64.7 BIL (+$16.2 BIL VS. 2017) net security firm, has been devel-

Harald Link  WEALTH oping products since 1998. Today
$2 BIL #1215 DIVERSIFIED TOP SECTORS ORIGIN the New Jersey-based company
Chuchat & Daonapa 18 controls 37% of the over $1 billion
Petaumpai ★ 5.5% SSL- certificate market, which pro-

DIVERSIFIED
$2 BIL #1215 64% tects sensitive information like user
MOTORCYCLE LOANS 5 30.5%
CONSTRUCTION names and credit card numbers
Kiat Chiaravanont  3 through encryption for such cus-
$1.9 BIL #1284 DIVERSIFIED FASHION & RETAIL tomers as Intel and Xerox. In Oc-
Thaksin Shinawatra  3 INHERITED & GROWING tober private equity fund Francisco
INHERITED
$1.8 BIL #1339 INVESTMENTS METALS & MINING SELF-MADE Partners bought a majority stake
2
Prayudh Mahagitsiri  FOOD & BEVERAGE for an undisclosed sum.
$1.7 BIL #1394 COFFEE, SHIPPING
Wichai Thongtang 
$1.7 BIL #1394 INVESTMENTS
Keeree Kanjanapas 
$1.5 BIL #1561 TRANSPORTATION
EXPATRIATES
Thongma Vijitpongpun  2
$1.5 BIL #1561 REAL ESTATE
Phongthep Chiaravanont ★
$1.2 BIL #1867 DIVERSIFIED
Rit Thirakomen 
$1.2 BIL #1867 RESTAURANTS
Manas Chiaravanond ★
$1.1 BIL #1999 DIVERSIFIED
Yupa Chiaravanond ★
$1.1 BIL #1999 DIVERSIFIED
ISTANBUL ANKARA
Prathip Chiravanond ★ 31 3
$1.1 BIL #1999 DIVERSIFIED
Chatchai Kaewbootta ★ CESME
$1.1 BIL #1999 AUTO LOANS
Niti Osathanugrah ★
$1.1 BIL #1999 INVESTMENTS
Pete Bodharamik ★ BODRUM
$1 BIL #2124 TELECOM
Sathien Setthasit ★
$1 BIL #2124 ENERGY DRINKS
Surin Upatkoon 
$1 BIL #2124 TELECOM,
LOTTERIES, INSURANCE Murat Ulker 
$4.8 BIL #422 FOOD
Erman Ilicak 
$4 BIL #550 CONSTRUCTION Fuat Tosyali
TANZANIA Husnu Ozyegin  NEWCOMER: Tosyali and his two brothers, also new billion-
$2.9 BIL #822 FINANCE, aires, were born in the Mediterranean town of Iskenderun,
GDP: $51.6 BIL DIVERSIFIED where they helped their father make stovepipes and boiler
POPULATION: 57 MIL Mustafa Kucuk  buckets out of tin cheese cans in his 100-square-foot shop.
BILLIONAIRES: 1 $2.7 BIL #887 FASHION RETAIL Today their Tosyali Holding is one of Turkey’s largest inte-
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.5 Semahat Sevim Arsel  grated steel producers, with a production capacity of 12 mil-
BIL (+$100 MIL VS. 2017) $2.6 BIL #924 DIVERSIFIED lion tons. All three brothers sit on the company’s board. Fuat
Mustafa Rahmi Koc  is chairman; his brother Ayhan is vice chairman.
$2.5 BIL #965 DIVERSIFIED
Mohammed Dewji  Sarik Tara 
$1.5 BIL #1561 DIVERSIFIED $2.5 BIL #965 CONSTRUCTION
Ferit Faik Sahenk  Nihat Ozdemir  Mehmet Hattat  Mustafa Latif Topbas 
$2.4 BIL #1020 DIVERSIFIED $1.7 BIL #1394 DIVERSIFIED $1.4 BIL #1650 DIVERSIFIED $1.2 BIL #1867 FOOD, RETAIL
Filiz Sahenk  Melih Abdulhayoglu ★ Fuat Tosyali ★ Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu 
$2.3 BIL #1070 DIVERSIFIED $1.6 BIL #1477 $1.4 BIL #1650 STEEL $1.1 BIL #1999 CONSTRUCTION
INTERNET SECURITY
Suna Kirac  Ahmet Nazif Zorlu  Hamdi Akin 
$2.2 BIL #1103 DIVERSIFIED Ahmet Calik  $1.4 BIL #1650 DIVERSIFIED $1.1 BIL #1999 DIVERSIFIED
$1.6 BIL #1477 ENERGY, BANKING,
Hamdi Ulukaya  CONSTRUCTION Deniz Sahenk  Mehmet Aydinlar 
$1.8 BIL #1339 GREEK YOGURT $1.3 BIL #1756 DIVERSIFIED $1.1 BIL #1999 HOSPITALS
DAR ES SALAAM Turgay Ciner 
Sezai Bacaksiz  $1.6 BIL #1477 DIVERSIFIED Erol Tabanca ★ Mehmet Rustu Basaran 
$1.7 BIL #1394 DIVERSIFIED $1.3 BIL #1756 CONSTRUCTION $1.1 BIL #1999 BANKING, GAS
Bulent Eczacibasi 

Sefik Yilmaz Dizdar  $1.5 BIL #1561 Ayhan Tosyali ★ Murat Vargi 
$1.7 BIL #1394 FASHION RETAIL PHARMACEUTICALS, DIVERSIFIED $1.3 BIL #1756 STEEL $1.1 BIL #1999 TELECOM
Mehmet Nazif Gunal  Faruk Eczacibasi  Fatih Tosyali ★ Fatma Tuba Yazici 
$1.7 BIL #1394 TOURISM, $1.5 BIL #1561 $1.3 BIL #1756 STEEL $1.1 BIL #1999 DIVERSIFIED
CONSTRUCTION PHARMACEUTICALS, DIVERSIFIED Mehmet Sinan Tara  Olgun Zorlu 
$1.2 BIL #1867 CONSTRUCTION $1 BIL #2124 DIVERSIFIED
CHANG: WAY WANG/BLOOMBERG; SETTHASIT: BRENT LEWIN/BLOOMBERG
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