Kemal Şahin

Kemal Şahin (born 1955) is a Turkish - German entrepreneur and a textile tycoon. He is also an environmental activist against erosion. Sahin (which means falcon in Turkish) was born to a poor family in the village of Taşlıpınar in the Beyşehir district of Konya Province, Turkey. His birth date is not known, but his family registered his birth on April 11, 1955. After finishing primary school in his village, secondary school in Beyşehir and high school in Konya, Sahin went to Germany on a scholarship in 1973 to study metallurgical engineering for Etibank, a large state-owned mining company. He completed a German-language course, then attended Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), from which he graduated in 1982 with a Diplom degree. As...