Founded in 1954 as a limited partnership by İshak Alaton and Dr. Üzeyir Garih, Alarko was incorporated as a holding company in 1973 and went public in 1974. Today, the company is one of Türkiye's leading industrial enterprises with a strong history of 70 years and operations in 6 different fields of activity, 41 subsidiaries including an international joint venture, 7.000 employees and annual combined revenues of 46 billion TL as of the end of 2023.