ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. ("Turkcell"), (Istanbul: TCELL, NYSE: TKC), announced today, the Board of Directors of the Company convened on 29 November 2006 within the framework of Article 330/2 of the Turkish Commercial Code and the following was resolved with the unanimity of the votes;Sureyya Ciliv will be appointed as our Company's Chief Executive Officer effective January 9, 2007.

Mr. Ciliv has extensive international experience in general management, marketing and sales for multinational, fast growing, high technology businesses.

Mr.Ciliv comes to Turkcell from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, USA where he has held executive positions in the Microsoft Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Services Group between 2000 to present. Most recently he was the General Manager of Worldwide Field Readiness Strategy & Systems.

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