İshak Alaton is a prominent Turkish Jewish businessman and a founding partner of the Alarko

Alarko Holding

Alarko Holding is one of the largest business conglomerates in Turkey; it is listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. It was founded by İshak Alaton and Üzeyir Garih.-References:* at Biyografi.net...

 group of companies.

Biography

İshak Alaton was born in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 in 1927. He completed his high school education respectively at Şişli Terakki High School and Saint Michel French High School and graduated in 1946. Having finished his military service in Polatlı

Polatli

Polatlı is a city and a district in Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 80 km west of the Turkish capital Ankara, on the road to Eskişehir. According to 2010 census, population of the district is 117,473 of which 98,605 live in the city of Polatlı...

, Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, he went to Sweden to work as a welder in Motala Locomotive Factory in 1951. In the meantime he attended engineering drawing courses. Having finished his courses, he continued to work as an industrial designer at the same company until 1954. The same year he returned to Turkey and founded Alarko Company together with Üzeyir Garih

Üzeyir Garih

Üzeyir Garih was a prominent Turkish Jewish businessman and a cofounder of Alarko Holding.-Biography:...

.

He is currently the chairman of the board in Alarko Holding.

External links

• Alarko Holding official website
• "Turkey Needs a Mentality Revolution" Interview with Ishak Alaton on Qantara.de