Şarık Tara (born Šarik Hadžihamzić; 22 April 1930 – 28 June 2018) was a Turkish billionaire who founded Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., one of Turkey's largest construction company, with Sadi Gülçelik, in 1957.

Tara was born in Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia) but emigrated with his family to Turkey in 1942 when he was 12 due to World War II.

[4] His father Fevzija Hadžihamzić, an ethnic Bosniak, was from Priboj, a town in the Sandžak region of Serbia, where his family moved from Nikšić.

His knowledge of foreign languages help him secure night work as a translator at a textile factory while he was still attending Şişli Terakki high school.

is a global company in the construction sector with large scale road, tunnel, power plant, and real estate projects.

From 1984 onwards, Tara played a pioneering role in Turkey entering the Soviet Union.

In 1988, Tara signed the contracts for ENKA's renovation of the Petrovski Arcade and construction of the Moscow Hospital.

During the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1988, Tara was instrumental in the meeting between prime ministers Turgut Özal and Andreas Papandreou, resulting in the establishment of an official bilateral dialogue between the two countries[10] and Tara becoming the chair of the Turkish-Greek Business Council.

[1] Tara lobbied for Turkey's accession to the European Union for many years, as well as for promoting regional peace in the Balkans.

[1] In 1983, Şarık Tara established the 33,600m2 Sadi Gülçelik Sports Complex located in Istinye, Istanbul, named in honor of his deceased brother-in-law and business partner.