Mehmet Emin Karamehmet (born 1 April 1944) is the chairman of Turkey's Çukurova Holding conglomerate.

He was ranked the 2nd wealthiest person in Turkey and the 401st globally in 2012 Forbes Billionaires list.

[1] He is one of the most influential and successful businessmen in Turkey with a record of several returns after failures.

After graduation, Karamehmet returned to his hometown Tarsus, where his father was the head of the local chamber of commerce, and established his first company with the capital of 100.000 TL.

Current wealthiest man of Turkey according to Forbes Billionaires list Hüsnü Özyeğin[2] is a classmate of Karamehmet.