Turkcell Awarded for Best Financial Disclosure Procedures in Europe for Second Consecutive Year

Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Turkcell , Turkey's leading
communications and technology company, today announced being ranked
as one of the top-five companies in Europe for its Financial
Disclosure Procedures, and being awarded by IR Global Rankings (IRGR)
at its 2011 The IR Summit in London on April 14, 2011.

IRGR conducts rankings in five regions: North America, Europe,
Asia/Pacific and China, India and Latin America. A total of 150
companies from North American and Europe participated in this year's
awards, including a number of the world's leading corporations such
as Adidas, Cisco Systems, Intel and Visa. Turkcell was evaluated in
the European category along with Allianz, BNP Paribas, PHILIPS and
Royal Dutch Shell.

Nihat Narin, Head of Investor and International Media Relations
at Turkcell, said, "We are proud to be recognized, for the second
consecutive year, as one of Europe's front-runner companies for best
practice in financial disclosure. We are constantly looking for ways
to achieve a continuous rise in the standards of our best IR
practices."

"The implementation of best practices in communicating with the
capital markets helps companies earn and maintain investor
confidence. Each year, we acknowledge those companies that have
raised the bar in their approach to communicating with the investment
community," said Luar Huber, head of IR Global Rankings.

ABOUT INVESTOR RELATIONS GLOBAL RANKINGS

The IR Global Rankings ("IRGR") is the most comprehensive ranking
system for investor relations websites, online annual report,
corporate governance practices and financial disclosure procedures.
The ranking is based on extensive technical proprietary research of
publicly traded companies through a clear and transparent methodology
and is supported by key global institutions such as Arnold & Porter;
KPMG; MZ and Sodali. For more information, please visit
http://www.irglobalrankings.com.

ABOUT TURKCELL

Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in
Turkey with 33.5 million subscribers and a market share of
approximately 54% as of 2010 (Source: Operator's announcements).
Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market leadership in five
of the nine countries in which it operates with its approximately
60.4 million subscribers as of 2010. Turkcell reported TRY9.0 billion
($6.0 billion) net revenue and its total assets reached TRY15.1
billion ($9.8 billion) as of 2010. Turkcell covers 82% of the Turkish
population through its 3G and covers 99.07% of the Turkish population
through its 2G technology supported network. Turkcell has become one
of the first operators among the global operators to have implemented
HSDPA+ and to reach to 42.2 Mbps speed with HSPA multi carrier
solution. Turkcell has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE since July
2000 and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey. 51.00% of
Turkcell's share capital is held by Turkcell Holding, 0.05% by
Cukurova Holding, 13.07% by Sonera Holding and 1.19% by others while
the remaining 34.69% is free float. Read more at
http://www.turkcell.com.tr.

For further information please contact Turkcell
Nihat Narin, Investor and International Media Relations
Tel: +90-212-313-1244
Email: nihat.narin@turkcell.com.tr
investor.relations@turkcell.com.tr

http://www.turkcell.com.tr

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