ARKAS

About Us

The first decade of the 20th century… Izmir is the backbone of the Anatolian economy… Its thousands year-old port is the Ottoman Empire’s gate into Europe… Every kind of produce grown in its fertile soil from cotton to tobacco, grapes and figs and they are sent not just to the east but shipped from Izmir to the countries of the West.In this city, which was the pearl of the Ottoman Empire’s eye, Gabriel J. B. Arcas established Arkas in 1902 as an import agency. In 1944 it began to operations in the field of international transportation.At a time when the country needed more branches of business even more than ever, Arkas, headed by Lucien Gabriel Arcas, began to evaluate the potential of this peninsula surrounded by water on three sides.