nce upon a time, certainly as recently as the 1950s, the Turkish city of Adana was considered second only to Istanbul as an industrial powerhouse in a rapidly modernising country.
Most famously, this southern city of 1.5m inhabitants is recognised as the place where the Sabanci family, owners of the eponymous conglomerate, made their first fortune and where the seed capital for Akbank, the family’s main asset, was located.
