
The business affairs of our company are managed under the direction of the Board, which represents and is accountable to our shareholders. Please click here for the working principles of our company's Board of Directors
The business affairs of our company are managed under the direction of the Board, which represents and is accountable to our shareholders. Please click here for the working principles of our company's Board of Directors
The business affairs of our company are managed under the direction of the Board, which represents and is accountable to our shareholders. These responsibilities non-exhaustively include:
He was born in 1975, in İstanbul. He graduated from the Istanbul University, Faculty of Law. Şenol Kazancı worked as TVNET General Manager between 2007 and 2011, as the Advisor of the Prime Minister between 2011 and 2014, and as Chief Advisor to the President in 2014. He lastly served as the Chairman and General Manager of the Anadolu Agency between 2014 and 2021. At the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting for 2020, held on April 15, 2021, Şenol Kazancı was elected to the Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors. held on April 15, 2021, Şenol Kazancı was elected to the Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors since September 14, 2023.
Figen Kılıç, born in 1970 in Gaziantep, graduated from the Selçuk University, Electrical Electronics Engineering department and received her Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree from the Gebze High Technology Institute. Trained in project management, process management, and test engineering, Kılıç also graduated from the Anadolu University Faculty of Open Education, Department of Law, and is studying in the Department of Business Administration of the same university. Figen Kılıç, started her career as technical translator in İhlas Group, before moving to İstanbul Municipality BELBİM A.Ş. for a lengthy period, working on payment projects as R&D engineer, Project Coordinator and R&D Manager. In 2010, she transferred to E-Kent Ödeme Sistemleri A.Ş. (Çalık Holding) where she served as IT and Operational team manager for electronic ticket system integration and management projects in various cities of Turkey. In 2014, Figen Kılıç worked at Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. and in 2015 was appointed to the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) of Turkey as its first women board member. After her term in office ended in 2019, she acted as Service Delivery General Manager of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services. Figen Kılıç currently serves as Advisory Board Member of BİLTEG Group at TÜBİTAK. Figen Kılıç was appointed to the Turkcell Board of Directors, effective as of January 29, 2021. At the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting for 2020, held on April 15, 2021, Figen Kılıç was re-elected to the Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors.
Sir Julian Horn-Smith was born in London, in 1948 and graduated from Hons London University, Department of Economics. He completed his master's degree in Business Administration at Bath University and was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bath. He held various senior positions at Vodafone Group between 1984 and 2006, and served as Deputy General Manager between 2000 and 2006. Sir Julian served as the Member of the Board of Directors and Risk Committee of Lloyds Banking Group and Advisor to the Chairman of Etisalat. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of eBuilder AB (Sweden) and Board Member of the Digicel Group. He works as consultant at FTSE Directorships, AlixPartners and UBS Investment Bank. At the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting for 2020, held on April 15, 2021, Sir Julian Horn-Smith was elected to the Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors.
Afif Demirkıran was born in Siirt in 1952. Having completed his primary and secondary education in Siirt, Afif Demirkıran graduated from Mining Faculty of Istanbul Technical University in 1973. Later he studied engineering and had master’s degree at the Leeds University in UK. He served as an executive in Etibank, as Head of Foreign Investment Department at the Undersecretariat of State Planning Organization, as General Manager of Foreign Investment Directorate at the Undersecretariat of Treasury, as a Board Member of Eregli Iron and Steel Inc. and Sümerbank A.Ş., as various executive positions in private sector companies, as General Manager and Chairman of Turkish Electricity Generation and Transmission Company (TEAŞ), and as General Manager of Vakıf Enerji ve Madencilik A.Ş.. Being active in politics since 2002, Afif Demirkıran served as Batman Deputy in the 22nd, and Siirt Deputy at the 23rd and 24th periods of the Grand National Assembly Turkey. In the 22nd period, he also served as a member of the State Economic Commission for Enterprises, member of Turkish Group OSCE PA and member of the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission. In the 23rd and 24th periods, he was the President in the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission. In the 22nd, 23rd and 24th periods, he served as the Chairman of Turkey-Spain Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group. In the 24th period, he also was the Deputy Chairman of Turkey-Pakistan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since 2016, he has been the Deputy Chairman of Foreign Affairs Directorate of Justice and Development Party. Mr. Demirkıran was appointed to the Turkcell Board of Directors by Capital Markets Board Decision effective as of March 6, 2020. At the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting for 2020, held on April 15, 2021, Afif Demirkıran was re-elected to the Independent Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors. He is married and has four children.
He was born in Aydın, in 1968. He graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1992. He completed his master's degree in 1994 and his doctorate in 1998 at the Southern Methodist University Electrical Engineering Department. Hüseyin Arslan worked as research engineer at ERICSSON, consultant at ANRITSU Company, and held Membership of TÜBİTAK Science Board and ULAK A.Ş and he has also won numerous national and international scientific awards. Hüseyin Arslan received his professor degree in 2013, and is currently working as faculty member at Istanbul Medipol University and South Florida University, and as consultant at TÜBİTAK. At the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting for 2020, held on April 15, 2021, Hüseyin Arslan was elected to the Independent Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors.
Serdar Cetin graduated from Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering department and holds an MSc in Management (Grande Ecole) from HEC School of Management in Paris with a major in strategic management. Serdar Cetin has served at the board of Play Group from July 2007 till November 2020. He was a management board member of Play (P4 Sp.zo.o.) from its inception (July 2005) till October 2006 and was a supervisory board member between July 2007 and June 2017. Following the IPO of Play Group, he was appointed as a member of the Audit Committee, Remuneration and Nomination Committee and Operational and Investment Committee of Play Communications S.A. until its sale to Iliad in November 2020. Serdar Cetin was a board member of Turknet Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. and its then parent company NetOne Holdings S.a.r.l., between 2007 until April 2013. He served as a board member or board observer in several telco or technology companies including Machinezone, which is now acquired by Applovin (USA), Netia (Poland), Forthnet (Greece) and Be* Unlimited (UK). In addition, he served as a board member of AASA Polska from August 2015 to December 2019. Serdar Cetin is a board member of WOM S.A. Chile since July 2015. Additionally, he is a partner of Novator Partners LLP, a London based investment advisory firm. Prior to joining Novator, Mr. Cetin worked at Merrill Lynch investment banking and BNP Paribas Asset Management in London. At the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting for 2021, held on June 16, 2022, Serdar Cetin was elected to the Independent Member of the Turkcell Board of Directors. He is fluent in English and French.
Melikşah Yasin, born in Istanbul in 1975, graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1996. In the same year, he began his master's degree at Istanbul University's Institute of Social Sciences and completed it in 1998 with his thesis titled “Control of the Administration by the Parliament.” In 1997, he started working as a research assistant in the Department of Administrative Law at the Marmara University Faculty of Law. He initiated his doctoral studies at Marmara University's Institute of Social Sciences in 1998 and completed them in 2002 with his doctoral thesis titled “The Capital Markets Board and Its Transactions.” Mr. Yasin conducted academic research at King's College in 2007 and 2008. In 2010, he was appointed as an associate professor at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Since 2016, he has served as a professor of Administrative Law at Istanbul University. He has also held various administrative positions at the university. Mr. Yasin, who has authored books and numerous articles in the field of administrative law, is currently a visiting academic at Oxford University Faculty of Law. Mr. Yasin is married and a father of one child. On September 14, 2023, he was elected as a member of the Turkcell Board of Directors.
Ayşe Nur Bahçekapılı was born in Istanbul in 1954 and is from Trabzon originally. Ms. Bahçekapılı completed high school education in Istanbul Kız Lisesi and later graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Starting her career as a private attorney, Ms. Bahçekapılı served as a member of the Istanbul Bar Association Board of Directors and General Secretary from 1988 to 1992. She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations from 1997 to 2005. In 2007, she was elected as a member of parliament from the second district of Istanbul. From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Bahçekapılı served as the Speaker of the Constitutional Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and chaired the Turkey-Cuba Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group. Ms. Bahçekapılı served as the Deputy Group Chairman of the Justice and Development Party from 2009 to 2013. From July 2013 to June 2015, she held the position of Deputy Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and resumed the role from November 2015 to June 2018. From 2020 to 2023, Ms. Bahçekapılı served as the Chief Advisor to the President and continues to hold the position of a member of the Legal Policies Council of the Presidency. On September 14, 2023, she was elected as a member of the Turkcell Board of Directors.