Edip Sahillioğlu

	Working, being happy and tolerance was your motto for life
	[26th November 1938 --- 23rd March 1998]
		Türkçe

• Was born as the fourth child of Butcher Yusuf and Mevlüde Hanım in Antakya

• When in high school, had a serious accident with the bike that his father had given him as a present. He survived thanks to his determination

• Improved his English by guiding the tourists that visited his father's restaurant

• Liked studying under the olive trees of the St. Pierre Church, Antakya

• 4 months after he started his studies at Istanbul University, Mining Engineering Faculty, he ranked in the top 5 out of 500 applicants in an exam by Sümerbank, and received a scholarship for his studies at the University of Manchester (UMIST) (1957). Then started his adventure of England, which lasted for 6 years

• After getting B.S. in Textile Engineering in 4 years (1961), he started M.S. on "velvet" at the same university

• During his Master's studies he married Laura (Leyla Hanım)

• His first child Ergun was born on 15^th  February 1963

• After finishing his studies, he returned to Turkey with his family to work at Sümerbank's fibre factory in Maraş

• Went to Bergama for work with his family in 1965, and his second child Adem was born there

• Got to know Sakıp Sabancı on a trip to Adana and Mr. Sabancı proposed him to work at Bossa/Adana. Later, he became the chairperson of the velvet department at Teksa/Adana

• His third child  Şebnem was born on the 8^th August 1972 in their house on Baraj Yolu, Adana

• In times of intense anarchy (1978), Laura took the children to England for their education, and a few months later told him that they would not return to Turkey

• Started work as the manager of the Printed Cloth factory in Tarsus Çukurova Industrial Enterprises and moved to Mersin

• Met his future wife, Nevin Hanım on 26^th November 1980 and announced that day to be his birthday. They got married on 31^st January 1981

• Yusuf was born on 25^th March 1982

• On a flight from Istanbul to Adana, he ran into his friend from UMIST, Özdemir Sabancı, and received a job offer from him. Started as the Marketing and Technical Service Manager at SASA, on 1st April 1983

• His last child, Erdem was born on 4^th April 1983

• During his career of 15 years at SASA, he literally opened the gate of Middle East for the company; through his trips, primarily to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Solving the serious problems in Russsia, he managed to shift the Russian commerce to the utmost level

• Asked Pakize Hanım, Nevin's mother, to stay at his home during his absence due to these trips. Took care of Pakize Hanım during her hard time of heart disease in 1995, as if his real mother

• Liked Mersin, the sea, working, going to their summer house (Babil) with his family on weekends

• Security guards in Babil, workers at the factory, his colleagues, the store-keepers, his friends from Mersin/Adana/Antakya/England, and of course his family liked him very much and respected him deeply

• Was joyful; loved dancing. Was energetic; never complained of tiredness. Was noble; never swore (used profanity)

• Liked feeding the birds and fishes very much, and asked them for prayer when feeding

• Getting his children to study at the best places, returning from his work trips with loads of presents, and his trips with his family are some of the examples of his deep love and dedication to his family

• Liked playing backgammon very much

• Made delicious (Hatay) peynirli irmik helvası (a traditional dessert of his hometown with semolina and cheese)

• Valued education a lot. His greatest ideal was to have a school built

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• Was diagnosed of colon cancer on 12^th October 1996. On 23^rd March 1998 i cry, when angels deserve to die