OYAK

Ordu Yardımlaşma Kurumu (OYAK) (English: Military Solidarity Institution), is a Turkish charity and military pension fund with around 470,000 members.^[5] The OYAK Holding Investment Subsidiary Group is one of the largest industrial groups in Turkey.^[6]

OYAK

Company type	Pension fund
Traded as	BIST: OYYAT
Founded	1 March 1961; 64 years ago (1961-03-01)[1]
Headquarters	Ankara, Turkey
Products	Financial services
Revenue	US$16.35 billion (2023)
Total assets	US$30.25 billion (2023)
Number of employees	38,796[2]
Parent	Turkish Ministry of National Defense[3]
Website	www.oyak.com.tr [4]

The group was the former owner of ING Oyak Bank, sold to ING Bank in 2007, and the Oypa supermarket chain. In 2012, it was rated BB+/stable by Standard & Poor's.^[7] The group co-owns car manufacturer Oyak-Renault and steel producer Erdemir. OYAK Group of Companies added Sagra to its structure in April 2021.^[8] OYAK is on the global coal exit list published by Urgewald because it owns İsken Sugözü power station.^[9]

OYAK is a private entity that is subject to Turkish civic and commercial law. OYAK, also offers services such as consumer loans, housing loans, pension system, stock market investment support to its members.^[10]

OYAK provides members with supplementary retirement benefits apart from the official retirement fund, Emekli Sandığı and SSK, to which they are primarily affiliated. In addition to retirement benefits, OYAK pays disability benefits to members when they become partially or fully disabled, and provides death benefits to the deceased's heirs.^{[citation needed]}

Structure

OYAK Group companies

In the industrial sector, the OYAK Group companies include iron and steel, chemistry, cement manufacturing, electricity and automotive.

• OYAK Mining Metallurgy Group
• OYAK Cement Concrete Paper Group
• OYAK Automotive Logistics Group
• OYAK Finance Group
• OYAK Construction Group
• OYAK Chemical Agriculture Group
• OYAK Energy Group
• OYAK Food Group

Affiliated companies

Affiliated companies and investments include:

• OYAK Construction (Turkish: OYAK İnşaat), founded 1982, in Turkey^[11]
• OYAK Yatırım Ortaklığı AŞ: Investment company, part-floated on the Istanbul Stock Exchange as OYAYO.IS^[12]
• Oyak-Renault (49% share)^[13]
• OYAK Securities (Turkish: OYAK Yatırım), founded 1982^[14]
• Erdemir, acquired in 2005^{[citation needed]}