Åžaban Aziz KARAMEHMETOÄžLU was born in Rize in 1964. After graduating from Rize High School in 1980, due to his close interest in trade, he started to work in family companies as he found time from the 1970s and with the encouragement of his father, he became a taxpayer in 1979 at the age of a child and his active trade life began. In 1985, KARAMEHMETOÄžLU, who transformed the family company, whose responsibility he took over from his father, into a group of companies engaged in Domestic and Foreign Trade, which operates on Construction Contracting - Construction Materials manufacturing - Textile and Furnishing products as well as the sales of Construction Materials, is also the chairman of the board of directors of these companies.
Åžaban Aziz KARAMEHMETOÄžLU was elected as a member of the Rize Chamber of Commerce and Industry Assembly in 1988 and since then, he has been serving as vice chairman of the board of directors for two terms, as a member of the board of accountant for one term, as the chairman of the Assembly for two terms and as the chairman of the Board of Directors for the last two terms. KARAMEHMETOÄžLU is married and has three children, two of whom are daughters.
