Board Members

Alexey Khudyakov

Member

Alexey Khudyakov, age 40, was appointed to the Board of Directors on May 22, 2006 and re-appointed on April 29, 2010. He is Vice President of Altimo, a leading investor in telecoms, and also serves as non-executive Chairman and Chair of the Audit Committees of High River Gold Mines, a gold mining company. Prior to his appointment to Altimo, Mr. Khudyakov held a Vice President position with Alfa Bank, managing the bank's direct investments in the telecom sector. Before that, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Mr. Khudyakov holds a Master of Business Administration degree from INSE AD and a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is a non-executive board member of Turkcell. He is also an Observer Member of the Audit Committee of Turkcell's Board of Directors. Mr. Khudyakov was named to the Audit Committee in reliance on Rule 10A-3(b)(1)(iv)(D) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Gulsun Nazli Karamehmet Williams

Member

Gulsun Nazli Karamehmet Williams, age 33, was appointed to our Board of Directors on April 29, 2010. Since 2004, she has worked in different positions at Digiturk (Digital Platform İletisim Hizmetleri A.S), where she currently holds the positon of Chief Content Officer and Executive Member of the Board. Prior to Digiturk, she worked at BS kyB England. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College (US A) and Richmond University (UK ) and has a B.A in Communications.

Tero Erkki Kivisaari

Member

Tero Erkki Kivisaari, age 39, was appointed to the Board of Directors on May 14, 2007 and was re-appointed on April 29, 2010. Mr. Kivisaari has been the President of TeliaSonera in Eurasia since May 1, 2007 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fintur Holdings B.V. Previously, Mr. Kivisaari has served as the chief financial officer and vice president of TeliaSonera in Eurasia. Mr.Kivisaari is a member of the Board of Directors of Azercell, Moldcell, A.S OJSC Megafon and Nurminen Logistics Plc; and the Chairman of Fintur Holdings BV board. He served as CFO of Fintur Holding B.V from 2003. Mr. Kivisaari has been the CFO of Smart- Trust AB, a mobile software company owned by Carlyle Group, GE Capital, Eqvitec and Sonera Group. Before that, Mr. Kivisaari held the position of Vice President of Sonera Group's International Operations. Mr. Kivisaari served as an associate professor of finance at the Helsinki School of Economics and holds an MB A in finance.

Colin J. Williams

Chairman

Colin J. Williams, age 69, was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors on February 25, 2010 and re-appointed on April 29, 2010. He also serves as a Voting Member and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Turkcell's Board of Directors. He is Chairman of Clondalkin and Chair of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of Clondalkin, a consumer and industrial packaging company. From January 2001 to December 2004, Mr. Williams served as President of SCA, North America, which is active in the packaging sector, personal care and paper tissue products. He was a long-term board member and Vice Chairman of ICCA, the International Corrugated Packaging Institution, the European Federation of Packaging and the Federation of Paper Producers (CEP I). Mr. Williams is the founding President of Propak Europe and was a board member of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce between 2002 and 2004. From 1988 to 2001, Mr. Williams was the President of SCA Packaging, prior to which he served as the Managing Director of Bowater, a corrugated packaging company, for four years. From 1978 to 1984, he was first the Sales Director and then the General Manager of Chicopee in the Netherlands, a non-woven fabrics company of Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Williams holds an MB A degree in finance from New York University, an M.Sc. degree in physical chemistry and an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden.

Mehmet Bulent Ergin

Member

Mehmet Bulent Ergin, age 63, was first appointed as a member of the Turkcell Board of Directors on April 29, 2005 and was re-appointed on April 29, 2010. After having taken responsibility in Hochtief AG's First Bosphorus project and Tekfen A.S.'s Iraq-Turkey pipeline project, Mr. Ergin worked in various positions at Cukurova Group companies. He held a managerial position at Cukurova Ithalat ve Ihracat T.A.S. and was a managing director at Maysan A.S. and Baytur Trading S.A. Currently, Mr. Ergin is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Genel Denizcilik Nakliyati A.S., Show TV, Aksam Gazetesi and Genel Enerji A.S., and he also holds the position of Board membership in Cukurova Holding. Mr. Ergin majored in Civil Engineering at Robert College, Turkey.

Karin Eliasson

Member

Karin Eliasson, age 49, was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors on April 29, 2010. Ms. Eliasson has been Senior Vice President and Head of Group Human Resources at TeliaSonera since 2008. Prior to joining TeliaSonera, Ms. Eliasson was Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, SCA. From 2000 until 2003 she served as the CEO of Novare Human Capital AB. Ms. Eliasson is a member of the Board of Directors of Proffice AB and Insurance company PR I Pensionsgaranti mutual. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources from Mid Sween University.

Oleg Malis

Member

Oleg Malis, age 37, was appointed to the Board of Directors on May 22, 2006 and re-appointed on April 29, 2010. He is also Senior Vice President of Altimo. Mr. Malis began working for Altimo as Chief of the Current Project Management Unit in 2005. Between 2003 and 2005 Mr. Malis was Senior Vice President and M&A Director at Golden Telecom. Before joining Golden Telecom, Mr. Malis founded Investelectrosvyaz and Corbina Telecom. Mr. Malis holds a degree in Systems Engineering from Moscow State Aviation Technological University.