should BANDIRMALI One of the four children of ‘Sock Shop Halil’ Hayrettin KaracaHe was born in 1922. His family was a Crimean immigrant. The Karaca Family grew the textile business that they started with a small business, with the company bearing the surnames they established in 1917.
Hocazade Halil Efendi, ‘Socksman Halil’, shared the Karaca Örme Sanayii, which became a considerable business when he died in 1956, among his three boys. He transferred 40 percent of the company to Hayrettin, 30 percent to Nurettin and 30 percent to Fahrettin. When Fahrettin transferred his shares in 1962 and Nurettin in 1972, Karaca was completely under the responsibility of Hayrettin Karaca.
LEADING EXPORT
Khan, the leader of the exports made in Turkey, moreover, it began almost 20 years ago by other organizations. Although Hayrettin Karaca made the company one of the most successful industrial companies in the country, his dream was completely different. His mind was in nature, trees, plants. Hayrettin Karaca describes those days as follows:
“I didn’t want to be an industrialist. What I wanted was to spend my time interested in literature with nature. But in those days it was out of question to oppose our father. ”
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MUSEUM MADE A MUSEUM
No success he had achieved would sever him from the love of nature and what he wanted to do about nature. Khan, in 1980, founded in Yalova, Turkey’s first private arboretums. He was collecting seeds from everywhere he visited, at home and abroad, and carefully studied the botanical gardens. A part of the Karaca Arboretum, which he defined as ‘The Tree Museum’, was the apple garden of his family. Hayrettin Karaca arboretum to collect 450 thousand kilometers of roads had to plant floor in Turkey. He has visited many places many times in different seasons. Today, there are more than 14 thousand plants and more than 5 thousand varieties in the 135 thousand square meter arboretum. Arboretum is also a gene protection center for the endangered species of the country.
COOPERATION WITH “YAPRAK DEDE”
Khan’s passion for nature and realized that this scourge of erosion Turkey travels with his love, he saw the danger of drought green areas. He knew that fighting erosion and preserving the natural environment could only be done by planting trees. In 1992, Nihat Gökyiğit dear friend and neighbor of the bride, also known as ‘Grandpa Leaves’ with their arms in the fight against the erosion Turkey decided to plastering.
IT’S A FOREST HERO
Vehbi Koç gave 10 percent of the money and Nihat Gökyiğit 10 of the money during the foundation. For the rest, two friends went to 30 business people and THEMEHe said that they should put their hands under the stone for the establishment of. 28 to accept the offer of the job that has more than 700 thousand people to volunteer today and saving millions of trees TEMA was founded in Turkey. As Hayrettin Karaca environmental activist, she dedicated her life to nature protection and advocacy activities. For this reason, it was awarded the Right Life Honor Award, which was called the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2012. In 2013, he entered the “Forest Hero” list of five people, who made an important contribution to the forests of the United Nations.
Ş RED REQUIRED IN GİDERAYAK
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– HAYRETTİN In addition to the nature studies of Karaca, he also had a short-term TV adventure. In 2008, the chat program titled ‘Giderayak’, which was prepared with Sümerologist Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, architect and journalist Aydın Boysan, surgeon, traveler and writer Tarık Minkari, is among the unforgettable TV history. ‘Everyone in Giderayak was wearing red clothes,’ where four people over the age of 80 commented on current events.
VERY LATE DIAGNOSTIC
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, with whom he made a program in Giderayak, made an emotional speech after the death of Karaca:
“I’m so sorry … I personally now I have found a true friend, our Turkey, our Republic, the grown son a valuable Our Anatolia, has lost a man of action. Today, not only the lovers but the trees are crying. I wish eternal peace in the land of the homeland, where he devoted his life and beloved to him. May you sleep in light. ”
‘I HAVE MONEY AND I HAVE NO RIGHT’
– Although HAYRETTİN Karaca has a giant textile company, he had very few clothes. Especially the red sweater was identified with it. He explained the reason for this:
“I have money, but I have no right. Each extra consumer item you buy has a price for nature.
TASTE THE LARGEST S pain
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– HAYRETTİN Karaca suffered greatly in his private life. His first wife, Türkan Karaca, died at a young age. He had three children named Halil, Kına and Elif from his second wife, Mergube Sevim Karaca. Halil Karaca died in 1984 while receiving dental treatment in France. His first child, Atay Karaca, who was his first wife, was killed by his ex-wife in 1993. Karaca lost his beloved wife Sevim Hanım in 2001. After this incident, he was in the middle of the inheritance fight of his children. The children wanted to sell the precious jewels of Sevgi Karaca and filed a case against it. Karaca, who is against the sale of his house and spiritual value goods and jewelry with his wife, agreed with the sales of a small part of the heritage.
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