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Beko MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Military Score 0.00 /10 D Beko - BDS-1000 262
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Beko operates within Arçelik A.Ş.’s disclosed consumer-durables and consumer-electronics group, whose reported activities include manufacturing, marketing, sales, after-sales service, import and export in those fields 1.

Arçelik’s 2024 reporting listed Beko Israel Household Appliances Ltd. as an Israel-based consumer-durables subsidiary, while reporting on Beko’s Israeli-market presence described civilian white-goods distribution including washing machines, dryers and refrigerators 2, 3.

Arçelik’s audited 2025 financial statements state that all shares in Beko Israel Household Appliances Ltd. were sold on 24 February 2025, without identifying the buyer, sale price or subsequent operations 4.

No public evidence identified of a Beko, Arçelik or Beko Israel contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police or an Israeli defence prime in the reviewed corporate disclosures and targeted procurement searches 1, 2, 4.

The available evidence does not exclude confidential procurement, routine civilian retail purchases by public bodies, or secondary-market resale of household appliances 3.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

The identified Israeli-market reporting describes ordinary household appliances rather than ruggedised, tactical, military-specification or defence-grade product lines 5.

No public evidence identified of Beko or Arçelik tactical variants, Israeli-security end-user sales, end-user certificates or export-control decisions in the bounded review 5, 3.

Arçelik’s disclosed group activities centre on consumer durables, consumer electronics, technology/R&D, sales, manufacturing and holding activities rather than identified defence-product manufacturing 1.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of Beko or Arçelik equipment used in settlement construction, demolitions, the separation barrier, checkpoints, military installations or other occupied-territory infrastructure in the reviewed sources 6, 7.

No public evidence identified of Beko or Arçelik construction, engineering, maintenance or servicing contracts for checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, the separation barrier or settlement infrastructure 3, 6, 7.

No verified source in the supplied research establishes an authorised Beko reseller, branch, warehouse or logistics site in an internationally recognised occupied territory 3.

The reviewed entity records also identified no operations by Beko Israel, Arçelik or currently disclosed Beko entities in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights or another internationally recognised occupied territory 1, 2, 4.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified that Beko or Arçelik supplies components, raw materials, manufacturing services or sub-systems to Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land or another Israeli defence prime 3, 5.

No public evidence identified of Beko or Arçelik joint development, co-production, technology transfer or licensed manufacture with an Israeli defence prime 3.

Koç Holding is disclosed as holding 48.53% of Arçelik’s capital and voting rights, and Koç family members and companies owned by them collectively hold 63.4% of Koç Holding 1, 8.

Otokar’s 2025 annual report identifies Yıldırım Ali Koç as its board chair, while Koç Holding identifies him as a Koç family member; this is a governance connection to a Turkish company named Otokar Otomotiv ve Savunma Sanayi A.Ş., not evidence of a Beko or Arçelik relationship with Israeli military or security end users 8, 9.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Beko or Arçelik contracts for appliances, facilities support, catering, transport, freight forwarding, port handling or other sustainment specifically for Israeli military or security installations or arms cargo 3.

No public evidence identified of such sustainment services at installations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights or Negev 3.

The available Israeli-market reporting supports civilian white-goods distribution through Brimag before Beko opened a representative office, rather than a documented military sustainment relationship 5.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that Beko or Arçelik manufactures or supplies lethal platforms, ammunition, explosive or propellant materials, strategic-defence components, weapons sub-systems or purpose-built kinetic-targeting software to Israeli forces 3.

Arçelik’s public group disclosures characterise the relevant business activities as consumer-durables and consumer-electronics operations, including manufacturing, sales, technology/R&D and related activities 1.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of defence-export licence grants, denials, suspensions, revocations, sanctions or arms-embargo enforcement, or litigation concerning Beko or Arçelik supply to Israeli military or security end users 3.

The audited 2025 filing records the disposal of Beko Israel Household Appliances Ltd. on 24 February 2025, but does not disclose the purchaser, transaction price or the entity’s post-sale operations 4.

No Israeli company-registry record was verified in the supplied research for Beko Israel’s purchaser, current ownership, officers, address or activity following that sale 4.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The supplied deterministic full-text pre-scan records no mention of Beko in the UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23 or the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-database updates 6, 7, 10.

This document-scoped result does not establish absence from wider UN, civil-society or other public databases and publications 6, 7, 10.

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment decision or corporate response specifically grounded in Beko or Arçelik defence-sector activity in Israel 3, 6, 7, 10.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate-record scope of Israeli military-channel donations, Israeli defence-prime equity, settlement-organisation roles, reservist-fund donations or public co-belligerency statements by the identified Koç controlling principals or Arçelik leadership 1, 8.

Footnotes

  1. https://kap.org.tr/en/sirket-bilgileri/genel/863-arcelik-a-s ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. https://www.kap.org.tr/en/api/file/download/4028328c949953a30194bcff1ad00ca1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. https://www.arcelikglobal.com/media/bovh23pl/arcelik_2024-eng.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  4. https://www.arcelikglobal.com/media/jnbfzcqd/arcelik-31-12-2025-spk-eng_go-ru-s-lu.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/rJ00RCkTVU ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/53/24 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. https://www.koc.com.tr/investor-relations/about-koc-holding ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://www.otokar.com.tr/getmedia/e31920a6-9ccc-4065-bb2e-4e1eb0d68af8/2025-annual-report ↩

  10. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩ ↩2 ↩3