The diverse companies owned and run by his family were incorporated in 1972 under Çukurova Holding, one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates today.
[2][4] Sadık Eliyeşil was survived by wife Gülsüm, a son, Necmettin and two daughters, Şerife and Meliha, as well as six grandchildren.
[3][7] One of his paternal granddaughters, Melissa Eliyeşil, born in 1984 in Istanbul to a Colombian Catholic mother, married into the Faber-Castell family.
The family owns two stables in Konya Ereğli and Çamtepe, Tarsus, in which 48 racehorses more are bred."
He added that his favourite racehorse is "Karayel" (literally: Mistral), which won the Gazi Race in 1973.