
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:
Şenol Kazancı, who was born in 1975, in İstanbul, graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Law. Şenol Kazancı worked as TVNET General Manager between 2007 and 2011, as the Chief Advisor of the Prime Minister between 2011 and 2014, and as the Chief Advisor to the President in 2014. He served as the Chairman and General Manager of the Anadolu Agency between 2014 and 2021. Şenol Kazancı, who was elected as the Member of Turkcell Board of Directors on April 15, 2021, has been the Chairman of Turkcell Board of Directors since September 14, 2023.
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.
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.
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 13, 2023, he was elected as a member of the Turkcell Board of Directors.