İshak Alaton

İshak Alaton (2 September 1927 – 11 September 2016) was a Turkish businessman and investor. He is a founding partner of the Alarko group of companies.[1][2]

Biography

İshak Alaton was born in Istanbul 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, Ankara, he went to Sweden to work as a welder in Motala Verkstad's locomotive factory in 1951.

He was very young when the Varlık Vergisi was imposed in Turkey. He recalls: "My father was a good businessman and member of the CHP. He was someone who served his party. He did volunteer work. During Atatürk's time, he was preparing a place for himself in politics. Atatürk later passed away. İnönü, who replaced him, was a bigoted, xenophobic, narrowminded leader. İnönü and his Prime Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu prepared that catastrophe together. He ensured that Turkey would be misrepresented. After the suffering that was endured, decisions changed and with America's support decisions changed and thousands of ruined people who had been sent into the mountains returned."[3]

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.

In 2001, his partner Uzeyir Garih is stabbed to death while visiting the grave of a Muslim mystic.[4]

According to Forbes, his net worth was valued as $882 Million in 2007.[4]

He was the chairman of the board in Alarko Holding. Alaton died on 11 September 2016 of heart failure, aged 89.[5]

See also

References
  1. Jürgen Gottschlich, Dilek Zaptcioglu Istanbul Con atlante stradale 2011 Page 19 "Uomini d'affari ebrei come Ishak Alaton, che opera nel campo dell'elettronica, e l'imperatore della moda Cem Hakko (Vakko) sono attualmente tra i personaggi più noti di İstanbul. " Translation: "Jewish businessmen as Ishak Alaton, which operates in the field of electronics, and the emperor of fashion Cem Hakko (Vakko) are currently among the best known of İstanbul."
  2. Vos Iz Neias: "Istanbul - Prominent Turkish Jewish Billionaire: Living Next To Cemetery Is Secret To My Success" February 14, 2009
  3. "İshak Alaton: Babamı buradan götürdüler". 13 November 2012. Retrieved 2018-07-21. "Babam iyi bir tüccardı ve Halk Partisi üyesiydi. Partisine hizmet eden bir insandı. Gönüllü yardımlar yapardı. Atatürk zamanında politikada kendine yer hazırlıyordu. Daha sonra Atatürk öldü. Yerine gelen İnönü, bağnaz, yabancı düşmanı, kapalı bir zihinsel yapıya sahip bir yöneticiydi. O felaketi İnönü ve dönemin başbakanı Şükrü Saracoğlu birlikte hazırladı. Türkiye'nin yanlış tanınmasını sağladılar. Yaşanan acılardan sonra kararlar değişti ve Amerika'nın desteğiyle kararlar değişti ve dağa götürülmüş binlerce insan mahvolmuş olarak yerlerine getirildiler."
  4. "In Pictures: The 40 Richest Turks". Forbes.
  5. "Prominent Turkish businessman Isak Alaton dead at 89". Anadolu Agency. September 12, 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-12.

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