Mohammed Hariri
Chairman of the Board of Directors +
(1958) Holding a degree in Management Engineering from the University of Ottowa, Mohammed
Hariri has been a part of the management of Saudi Oger Ltd. for 25 years. He holds seats as chairman
or member on the boards of directors of various Saudi Oger subsidiaries in a number of countries and
industries such as telecommunications, construction, energy and air transport. He is also a member
of the Board of Avea. Elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Türk Telekom on 14
November 2005, Mohammed Hariri has served as the Chairman of the Audit Committee between
June 16, 2008 and April 9, 2009 and has been serving as the Chairman of the Board since April 22,
2008 and as the Chairman of Executive Committee since April 9, 2009.
İbrahim Şahin
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
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(1962) After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Law, İbrahim Şahin served in various
positions at the Internal Affairs Ministry, worked as an advisor and undersecretary at the Ministry of
Transportation, and as PTT General Manager. Şahin was a member of the Audit Board of Türk
Telekom between December 31, 2002 and June 1, 2007, a member of the Audit Committee between
June 16, 2008 and April 9, 2009 and has been Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 1,
2007, Vice Chairman of Executive Committee since April 9, 2009. Şahin has been the General
Manager of TRT since November 21, 2007.
Hakam Kanafani
Member of the Board of Directors +
Hakam Kanafani is a University Trustee Scholar and holds Beta Gamma Sigma honors from the United States. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Management Information Systems. Kanafani holds an MBA with a 4.0 GPA and he continued his Executive Education at Harvard Business School.
Kanafani worked in the Apple Research Lab in College Park, Maryland and upon graduation he joined the Information Technology team based in Goddard Space Flight, NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland. He then moved to the Middle East as the Business Development Director for Egypt’s oldest running private holding company “MM Sons Conglomerate.” He spearheaded the conglomerate’s efforts to establish successful, rapidly growing ICT enterprises. Then he was appointed CEO of Jawwal, Palestine's first private cellular network. Later Kanafani became Chief Operating Officer of the PalTel Group, where he led strategy, acquisitions and financial consolidation for the Group.
Kanafani is currently a Non-Executive Director on the board of directors of TTNET, Argela, Assist, Innova and Sebit in Turkey and Cell C in South Africa. He also served on the board of directors of AVEA in 2007 and 2008.
Kanafani is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum. He wrote several papers on Information Communications Technology and International Management. He was featured in the Independent, Forbes magazine and other periodicals. In 2005, he was named as one of the 100 most influential figures in the Arab Word.
Saad Zafer M Al Kahtani
Member of the Board of Directors
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(1964) After receiving his B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Saad Zafer M Al Kahtani pursued master’s studies in business management/marketing at the King
Saudi University. Kahtani is currently the Vice President of Individual Sector Services at Saudi
Telecom Company where he held various senior positions since 1986. Saad Zafer M Al Kahtani has
been a member of the Board of Directors at Türk Telekom since July 30, 2008 and member of
Executive Committee since April 9, 2009. Mr. Kahtani served as the member of the Audit Committee
between January 7, 2009 and April 9, 2009.
Abdullah Tivnikli
Member of the Board of Directors
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(1959) After getting his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Abdullah
Tivnikli completed a business master’s program at the same university. Following his involvement,
upon invitation by the public authority, in the development of the legal infrastructure for the
participation banking model in Turkey, he actively took part in the establishment of Albaraka Türk
Participation Bank. He was a member and subsequently the vice chairman of the Board of Directors
of Kuveyt Türk Participation Bank. Mr. Tivnikli has been serving as board member of Türk Telekom
since 14.11.2008 and member of Executive Committee since April 9, 2009.He is presently in the
management of Eksim Group, as well.
Efkan Ala Member of the Audit Board
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(1965) He holds a degree from Istanbul University and a M.A. degree from Karadeniz Technical
University. His previous experience includes various governorship positions. He was officially charged
with governing a number of Turkish cities: Ordu, Tunceli, Batman, Diyarbakır. He worked as Manager
of Education Office of Internal Affairs Ministry, Manager of Education Office of Tourism Ministry and
Tourism Ministry Consultant. He has been working as undersecretary of Prime Minister since 2007.
Efkan Ala has been a statutory auditor at Türk Telekom since March 12, 2008.
Prof. Dr. Aydın Gülan Member of the Audit Board
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(1962) After getting his degree in law from Istanbul University, Aydın Gülan started working as a
research assistant at Administrative Law Department. In 1987, he got his master’s degree upon
submission of his thesis on “Public Service and Performance Procedures”. He started pursuing his
doctorate studies at the Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul University. He conducted doctorate
research at the Bourgogne University in France in 1989 and 1990. In 1995, he got his Ph.D. with his
thesis titled “Legal Regime Governing the Procedures for Public Property Use”, which was later
printed as a book. He was appointed as an assistant professor in 1996. He became an associate
professor in 2000 with his thesis “The ‘Dough Rule’ in the Turkish Zoning Law (A Theoretical
Approach to the Implementation of Article 18 of the Development Law no. 3194)”. He received the
title Professor in 2008. He currently serves as a faculty member at the Administrative Law
Department at the same university. Aydın Gülan has been serving as a statutory auditor at Türk
Telekom since November 14, 2008.
Mohammed Hariri Chairman of the Executive Committee
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(1958) Holding a degree in Management Engineering from the University of Ottowa, Mohammed
Hariri has been a part of the management of Saudi Oger Ltd. for 25 years. He holds seats as chairman
or member on the boards of directors of various Saudi Oger subsidiaries in a number of countries and
industries such as telecommunications, construction, energy and air transport. He is also a member
of the Board of Avea. Elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Türk Telekom on 14
November 2005, Mohammed Hariri has served as the Chairman of the Audit Committee between
June 16, 2008 and April 9, 2009 and has been serving as the Chairman of the Board since April 22,
2008 and as the Chairman of Executive Committee since April 9, 2009.
İbrahim Şahin Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee
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(1962) After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Law, İbrahim Şahin served in various
positions at the Internal Affairs Ministry, worked as an advisor and undersecretary at the Ministry of
Transportation, and as PTT General Manager. Şahin was a member of the Audit Board of Türk
Telekom between December 31, 2002 and June 1, 2007, a member of the Audit Committee between
June 16, 2008 and April 9, 2009 and has been Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 1,
2007, Vice Chairman of Executive Committee since April 9, 2009. Şahin has been the General
Manager of TRT since November 21, 2007.
Hakam Kanafani Member of the Executive Committee and TT Group CEO
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Hakam Kanafani is a University Trustee Scholar and holds Beta Gamma Sigma honors from the United States. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Management Information Systems. Kanafani holds an MBA with a 4.0 GPA and he continued his Executive Education at Harvard Business School.
Kanafani worked in the Apple Research Lab in College Park, Maryland and upon graduation he joined the Information Technology team based in Goddard Space Flight, NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland. He then moved to the Middle East as the Business Development Director for Egypt’s oldest running private holding company “MM Sons Conglomerate.” He spearheaded the conglomerate’s efforts to establish successful, rapidly growing ICT enterprises. Then he was appointed CEO of Jawwal, Palestine's first private cellular network. Later Kanafani became Chief Operating Officer of the PalTel Group, where he led strategy, acquisitions and financial consolidation for the Group.
Kanafani is currently a Non-Executive Director on the board of directors of TTNET, Argela, Assist, Innova and Sebit in Turkey and Cell C in South Africa. He also served on the board of directors of AVEA in 2007 and 2008.
Kanafani is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum. He wrote several papers on Information Communications Technology and International Management. He was featured in the Independent, Forbes magazine and other periodicals. In 2005, he was named as one of the 100 most influential figures in the Arab Word.
Abdullah Tivnikli Member of the Executive Committee
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(1959) After getting his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Abdullah
Tivnikli completed a business master’s program at the same university. Following his involvement,
upon invitation by the public authority, in the development of the legal infrastructure for the
participation banking model in Turkey, he actively took part in the establishment of Albaraka Türk
Participation Bank. He was a member and subsequently the vice chairman of the Board of Directors
of Kuveyt Türk Participation Bank. Mr. Tivnikli has been serving as board member of Türk Telekom
since 14.11.2008 and member of Executive Committee since April 9, 2009.He is presently in the
management of Eksim Group, as well.
Saad Zafer M Al Kahtani Member of the Executive Committee
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(1964) After receiving his B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Saad Zafer M Al Kahtani pursued master’s studies in business management/marketing at the King
Saudi University. Kahtani is currently the Vice President of Individual Sector Services at Saudi
Telecom Company where he held various senior positions since 1986. Saad Zafer M Al Kahtani has
been a member of the Board of Directors at Türk Telekom since July 30, 2008 and member of
Executive Committee since April 9, 2009. Mr. Kahtani served as the member of the Audit Committee
between January 7, 2009 and April 9, 2009.
K.Gökhan Bozkurt Chief Executive Officer
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Kamil Gokhan Bozkurt has an economics degree from Bilkent University and a masters degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
In 2003, after several years in private sector, Mr. Bozkurt joined Ziraat Bank as the senior manager overseeing the bank's all financial institutions. During this period, he was a board member at Ziraat Bank Moscow CJSC and Ziraat Bank International AG. Mr. Bozkurt then joined Halkbank as the Executive Vice President of Organization and Human Resources in 2004. In this capacity, he successfully managed the merger between Halkbank and Pamukbank.
In 2006, he was appointed as the Executive Vice President who managed the bank's both Financial Institution and International Banking units.
During his tenure, Mr. Bozkurt was an active member of the Privatization Committee of Halkbank and a board member at Birlik Insurance. He has been serving as the VP of Human Resources at Turk Telekom since he joined the company on November 1st, 2006. Mr. Bozkurt was instrumental in leading the transformation program which created a customer-centric, region- based organization with new assets such as new call center business, namely AssisTT. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Turk Telekom Sports Club and also the head of Basketball branch.
Memet Atalay VP Operations
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(1970) After getting his degree on Electronic Communications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, he started working at PTT as a transmission engineer. He then worked as switch engineer, switchboard project manager and he became Assistant Head of Study and Investment in 2002. He was in the team which established Aycell. He worked as a sector auditor at the State Supervisory Council between 2004-2005. He was appointed as Telecommunications Networks Director in 2006. After the restructing within “Operations”, he was later appointed as Network Director and then appointed as Vice President of Operations in 2010.
Timur Ceylan VP Technology
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After getting his degree on Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, he got his graduate degrees on Electrial Engineering at Hacettepe University, Economics at Bilkent University, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Irvine. He then continued with his doctoral studies at University of California, Irvine. He began his executive career at several technology companies in Silicon Valley. He joined Türk Telekom in November 2007 as advisor to VP Operations. He has been Assistant General Manager at TTNET responsible for Operations since May 2008.
Dr. Ramazan Demir VP Strategy and Business Development
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(1972) Having graduated from Bilkent University Industrial Engineering department, Dr. Demir holds
a Doctoral Degree from MIT, Sloan School of Management in Operational Research. As of 2005, he
held executive positions with Yahoo!, and he was most recently the director of the Yahoo!
Marketplace group. He joined Türk Telekom in October 2009.
Erem Demircan VP Marketing and Communications
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(1968) Upon graduating from Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department in Bosporus
University; for 17 years he acted in various positions in the domestic and international companies of
Koç Group, notably Arçelik; and took roles of different management levels including Assistant
General Management of Sales & Marketing and Grundig Board Membership. He joined Türk Telekom
in November 2006 as the Director of Marketing, and was appointed as the acting VP Corporate
Relations of Türk Telekom in September 2007. He has been working as Türk Telekom VP Marketing
and Communications since April 2008.
Celalettin Dinçer VP Sales
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(1966) After getting his degree in Electronic Communications Engineering from the Faculty of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, he started his career as an
engineer with PTT Istanbul Region Directorate. He was later promoted to Data Processing Manager
at the same place, and then appointed as Data Processing Department Head at Türk Telekom in
2000. Celalettin Dinçer became an Assistant General Manager in 2001.
Haktan Kılıç VP Customer Relations
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Mr. Haktan Kılıç graduated from department of Industrial Engineering at Marmara University and completed his master’s degree at the same department in 2001. He worked at Turkcell between 1997-2007 in various positions, after which he worked as Senior Management Advisor at IBM between 2007-2008 and worked at Eagle Mobile, Albania’s mobile operator in 2008. After leaving Eagle Mobile in 2008, he moved on to work at Türk Telekom Group as Marketing Director of TTNET and worked as Customer Care Director of TTNET from February 2009 to March 2010.
Dr. Mehmet Kömürcü Head of Legal and Secretary of Group Company
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(1970) After getting his degree in law from Ankara University, Mehmet Kömürcü got his master’s
degree in International Trade Law from American University, Washington College of Law. He received
another master’s degree in Law of International Waters and his Ph.D. in Public International Law
from the Law School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He worked as an attorney in the
Legal and Claims Department of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the
World Bank Group, in 1997 and 1998. He worked as a research assistant at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Law School in 2001 and 2002. Admitted to New York and Istanbul Bar. Dr.
Mehmet Kömürcü joined Türk Telekom in 2005.
Şükrü Kutlu VP Human Resources Regulations and Support Services
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(1970) After getting his degree from Ankara University Faculty of Law, Şükrü Kutlu worked as an
assistant auditor, auditor, and chief auditor at the Turkish Court of Accounts. Şükrü Kutlu joined Türk
Telekom in 2003 as Assistant General Manager and is continuing his duties as Vice President
Regulation and Support Services. Şükrü Kutlu is currently serving as a member on the board of
directors of TCDD (Turkish State Railways).
Mehmet Candan Toros VP International and Wholesale
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(1965) After getting his degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering at İstanbul Technical University, he started his career as an engineer at the PTT Technical
Operations and Maintenance Department in 1988. After serving as Satellite Systems Engineer,
Deputy Manager, Managing Director of Satellite Communications Center and Director of Satellite
Communication & Spacecraft Management Department PTT and Türk Telekom, Mehmet Candan
Toros was appointed as the Assistant General Manager for Sales and Marketing in 2003. He is the
International and Whosales VP since 2008.
Mustafa Uysal Acting VP Finance
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Mr. Uysal is working as the president of Tax Council composed of representatives of civil and non governmental organizations, academicians and experts since 2003 with his experience in finance, tax policies and tax applications, internal audit, financial systems, business strategies, business development, corporate governance, risk management, active-passive management and restructuring.
Joint study of Mustafa Uysal named “Strategic Approach to Revenue Administration and Audit in the Light of Contemporary Trends” has been deemed worthy of an award by the Tax Inspectors Foundation and published. Other joint study named “Inflation Adjustment and Accounting” has been published by TURMOB and Yaklasım Publishing. Mr. Uysal’s articles headed “Arasıra” are published in Dunya newspaper.
Dr. Nazif Burca Head of Internal Audit
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(1968) Nazif Burca, After graduating from Ankara University, Department of Public Administration, he began working as a Trainee Public Accounts Controller at the Ministry of Finance. Later he continued his career as a Public Accounts Controller and Chief Controller. Burca received his MA degree in the area of Finance from Illinois University in USA. In 2003 he was appointed to Türk Telekom as Deputy Director General responsible from Finance. He continued working in this position until November 2006 and has continued his career as Head of Internal Auditing since 2007. In 2008 he completed his PhD in finance at Gazi University.
