Following our announcements dated July 11, 2024, and August 12, 2024, as part of the delisting of our indirect subsidiary Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH) and following the tender offer made in this regard, our Company has purchased a total of 23,835,233 GPH shares at a price of USD 4.02 per share as of the final day of the process on August 23, 2024. Consequently, our Company’s stake in GPH’s current issued share capital has reached 89.40%. 

As GIH and Bidco have obtained over 75% of GPH’s voting rights, by virtue of acceptances of the Offer or otherwise, GIH and Bidco are in a position to ensure the approval of special resolutions. GIH and Bidco therefore intend to procure that GPH is re-registered as a private company. In addition, GIH and Bidco intend to procure that GPH’s articles of association are changed to introduce various provisions suitable for a privately-controlled, unlisted company where they are in the best interests of GPH and its shareholders as a whole, including, for example, the disapplication of pre-emption rights for the issue of additional ordinary shares in GPH, a right of the Company to require shareholders to disclose beneficial interests in GPH Shares and customary consequences for non-compliance, customary restrictions on the transfer of GPH Shares for reasons relating to applicable law, regulatory requirements or otherwise, and various other changes to the governance and constitution of GPH as described in the Offer Document and otherwise. 

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. 

Respectfully announced to the public.