Food Turkey Magazine October 2017
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lasted for twenty one days, he arrived<br />
at Istanbul and took the train, which<br />
hosted people leaving Greece to arrive<br />
at the Sarıdoğan Village in Adapazarı,<br />
which was known as an area where<br />
Turks migrating from Greece inhabited.<br />
Ismail preferred a marriage of convenience<br />
and married Esma Hanım, to<br />
whom he got acquainted with thanks<br />
to the efforts of his close friends. Esma<br />
Hanım run in a rich and wealthy family.<br />
Esma Hanım gave birth to Cavit, Cavide,<br />
Hatice, Sevim, Yıldız and Sevdiye. However,<br />
the Keskinoğlu family became upset<br />
first due to the passing away of Sevim.<br />
Later the 4-year old Hatice passed<br />
away just one day before the 6-year old<br />
Cavide said a last goodbye to this world.<br />
The 7- year of Cavit passed just 15 days<br />
later and hence, the Keskinoğlu family<br />
experienced the grief of losing a child<br />
for the fourth time.<br />
Ismail began to work in the field of<br />
tobacco production together with his<br />
father in law. Since he found out that<br />
one could earn a lot by manufacturing<br />
tobacco, he decided to launch his<br />
own business in Akhisar. Therefore, he<br />
settled in Akhisar and began to manufacture<br />
tobacco. It was just a short time<br />
thereafter, when his father in law began<br />
to have faith in him. Keskinoğlu began<br />
to plow lands in order to manufacture<br />
tobacco every year and it took just 4<br />
years for him to become a wealthy<br />
man possessing a tobacco land of 100<br />
decares. Besides manufacturing tobacco,<br />
he began to operate in the field of<br />
transportation and it was then when<br />
Keskinoğlu turned out to be a leading<br />
company in olive transportation. Once<br />
upon a time he decided to help one<br />
of his customers while collecting olives<br />
from olive trees and traveled with him.<br />
As a result of this close contact, these<br />
two became close friends. Whenever<br />
this customer arrived at Akhisar, he insisted<br />
on visiting “Ismail from Drama”.<br />
When people asked the reason laying<br />
behind his insistence, the customer<br />
replied: “It is not something that you<br />
can know. This man is specially gifted”.<br />
After a long period, Ismail recognized<br />
that this customer was Vehbi Koç. That<br />
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