In accordance with the Turkish Commercial Code and Article 4.3.7 of the Corporate Governance Principles annexed to the Capital Markets Board’s (“CMB”) Corporate Governance Communiqué (II-17.1), the necessary application has been made to the CMB for the Independent Board Membership of Efe Deniz Kılıç, who has declared his candidacy to be elected at the first Ordinary General Assembly meeting of our Company. In the application, the independence declaration and resume of the candidate and the Corporate Governance Committee’s assessment report on the independence of the candidate was submitted to the CMB. As a result of the application, we have been informed that the CMB has decided not to express any negative opinion on the independent board member candidate.

This statement has been translated into English for informational purposes. In case of a discrepancy between the Turkish and the English versions of this disclosure statement, the Turkish version shall prevail.