Birlikte Kariyer is a development program designed for young talents, particularly hearing-impaired university students and recent graduates, to enable them to make a strong and equal start for their career journey.

The program sees that participants are equipped with certified online trainings on topics such as communication, interview techniques, corporate image, self-expression in business life, conflict management, negotiation and persuasion styles, which are critically important in the early stages of a career. The contents of the training are designed with a broad perspective in consideration of the needs of participants from various universities and departments.

Through Birlikte Kariyer, we aim to reduce the structural barriers that hearing-impaired young people face in their career journeys and support their access to equal opportunities. We intend to provide participants not only with professional skills but also with self-confidence, visibility and the power to forge their own path.

We believe cultural and artistic development is an integral part of social development. Based on this belief, we launched the Women Stars of Tomorrow Education Support Fund as part of the Istanbul Music Festival. We have expanded our long-standing collaboration with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts since 1990 with a social impact approach focusing on the development of young female musicians.

This program we have been running since 2018 enables us to support talented young female musicians to develop their international careers in the fields of instruments, singing and conducting. Musicians who receive undergraduate or postgraduate education abroad, who wish to participate in masterclasses, orchestra auditions or international competitions, or who need support in purchasing instruments can benefit from this fund.

The young musicians we support have the opportunity to share the same stage with veteran artists such as İdil Biret, Ayla Erduran, Ayşegül Sarıca and Gülsin Onay during the Istanbul Music Festival. We see that such ensemble performance contributes to their professional development, visibility and international career journeys.

In our 75th anniversary, we launched the 11 Libraries in 11 Provinces project to provide safe and qualified learning spaces for children in earthquake-affected regions. We intended to strengthen children's access to education in post-disaster conditions and contribute to equal opportunities in education.

We established modern, content-rich libraries designed with the needs of children in mind at schools in provinces affected by February 6 earthquakes. We designed these libraries not only as spaces that provide access to books but also as places where children can feel safe, reconnect to learning and improve their imagination.

The positive impact created by the 11 Libraries in 11 Provinces Project encouraged us to continue our efforts under the TSKB 100th Anniversary Republic Libraries initiative. While fulfilling our initial commitment by opening libraries in 11 different provinces within two years, we further expanded the project and have now established libraries in 14 provinces.

Through this initiative, we continue to create lasting social impact that prioritizes the long term development of children in the post earthquake period while supporting equal opportunities in education. We believe this project has enabled us to build not only spaces but also hope.

We launched Equal Steps in cooperation with BCSD Türkiye to strengthen women's employment and promote a culture of equal opportunities in the workplace. This platform offers a guide to organizations desiring to take concrete steps in the field.

We designed Equal Steps as a digital library. We have created a resource space where you can find good practices, roadmaps, standards, legislation and current research from Türkiye and the world at the same place. Through our social media channels, we share developments with a focus on equality through a wide network of stakeholders and create a common learning environment.

The impact of Equal Steps in this field was also recognized internationally. In 2020, we were listed as one of the 30 best applications among over 450 development banks at the Finance in Common Summit.

We do not see Equal Steps solely as a digital platform. We see it as a strong stance enabling every step towards equality in the business world to contribute to social transformation.

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We believe in the great potential of women's participation in the economy for the welfare of the country. Based on this belief, we launched the Empower Through Education Scholarship Fund in cooperation with the Turkish Education Foundation. As part of the program, we support junior and senior female students studying at universities.

We do not only extend financial support to our scholars but also prepare them for business life through mentoring support. Our aim is not only to contribute to students' educational processes but also to support them to make a stronger and better equipped start to their career journey upon graduation. The mentoring process prepares the ground for our scholars to discover their own potential and take more solid steps into the business world.

Inclusiveness Ambassadors is a transformation program we have implemented to place the understanding of an equitable, accessible and respectful working environment at the heart of our corporate culture. Under this program, we bring together volunteering TSKB employees who want to play an active role in inclusive transformation by embracing the Bank's values together.

As part of the program, participants take part in awareness trainings to strengthen the awareness of inclusiveness in communication and behavior, particularly in disability. At workshops focused on experience and empathy, we discuss how inclusiveness can be reflected in daily business life, and we deliberate on in-house development areas to prepare the ground for new practices. We design this process not as a one-time training but as a journey of learning and transformation that continues at regular intervals.

With Inclusiveness Ambassadors, we aim to strengthen the inclusive approach not only through policies but also through behaviors and internal interactions. We want TSKB employees to be part of the transformation through their own experiences and plan for this transformation to spread throughout the organization.

We implemented the 75th Year Kindergarten Project to carry our support for quality education to the basics of preschool education. We aim to strengthen preschool education, which plays a critical role in the mental, emotional and social development of children, to open kindergarten classrooms in cities in need and to enrich learning environments.

We have designed our kindergarten classes to support children's skills of discovery, learning and self-expression. We intend to contribute to the multidimensional development of children through dedicated learning areas such as science, music and math corners. We prioritize supporting children's healthy development while strengthening access to early learning.

We opened our first kindergarten class on 14 February 2025 at Kilis Öncüpınar Primary School. Subsequently, we launched our kindergarten classes in Malatya Söğüt Primary School and Elazığ Muratçık and Yenice Primary Schools. During our 75th year, we continue to expand our contribution in this field by opening new kindergarten classes in various provinces in need.

We see gender equality as one of the fundamental elements of our corporate culture. As part of this approach, we launched the Gender Equality Certificate Program. With this program, we aim for our employees to gain awareness on equality, inclusiveness and bias-free communication and to reflect such awareness in their daily work practice.

In this two-month, hybrid program, our participants discuss the basic concepts of gender equality, egalitarian policies and practices in business life, invisible bias and inclusive language. We do not limit the program to theoretical content but through workshops, case studies and practical sessions, we create space for our employees to re-evaluate their own business processes from an equality perspective.

At the end of the program, our participants do not only gain individual awareness but also take the responsibility of playing an active part in corporate transformation alongside us.

We have been organizing the Sustainability Workshop since 2012 to bring university students together around a sustainability perspective and to provide future decision-makers with the experience of thinking on and producing relevant solutions. Each year, we aim to strengthen young people's awareness on sustainability and enhance their approaches.

As part of the workshop, students work together on a real case study under the guidance of TSKB experts. Our bank employees accompany the process as project coaches. We do not only provide the participants with theoretical knowledge but also open up space for them to experience the sustainability perspective through real business scenarios.

Our workshop welcomes students from various universities and departments. With a short-term but intensive content, this experience both supports young people's perspectives on sustainability and shapes their future education and career journeys.

We launched the Finance of the Future Academy to address the transforming needs of the finance sector and a sustainability perspective holistically. Under this program, we offer university students desiring to improve themselves in the field of finance and sustainability the opportunity to meet TSKB experts during the summer term and gain a holistic perspective on the sector.

During the academy program, students participate in workshops, hear inspiring speeches and join experience sharing sessions that support their career journeys in addition to attending finance and sustainability trainings. We aim not only to transfer technical knowledge but also to enable participants to discover their own potential and to jump-start their careers.

The program is designed in a way that puts equal opportunities at the center. We ensure that students from various universities and departments are included in the program, and we allocate additional quotas for TEV scholarship holders and students with disabilities. By bringing selected participants together with our volunteering mentors, we support a long-term development and guidance journey that goes beyond a short-term training process.

Launched for our 75th anniversary, we plan to continue organizing the Finance of the Future Academy in the coming years. We believe this program will become a permanent development platform that strengthens young people's access to opportunities.

We believe everyone has the right to equal access to knowledge and culture. Based on this belief, we launched the GETEM Audiobook Project in cooperation with Boğaziçi University Technology and Education Center for the Visually Impaired in our 75th year.

As part of the project, TSKB employees voluntarily narrate books in different fields, thus contributing to GETEM's digital audiobook library. We aim to increase the access of visually impaired individuals to information and support their more active participation in cultural life through the works we narrated in a wide range of content from literature to history, culture and arts to economy.

This project merges our accessibility approach with employee volunteering. We believe that barriers to access to information can be overcome together and that this collective contribution embodies our vision of an inclusive society.

We see inclusion not only as an area of practice but as an integral part of our corporate culture and values. This guide is a solid demonstration of our approach.

We aim to raise awareness on how different characteristics such as disability, age, seniority, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, and particularly gender, are reflected in language and business processes. While conveying our inclusiveness journey, the experiences we have had in this process and our focus areas, we also shed light on how our communication language should be transformed within this approach.

We drafted this guide to adopt a more inclusive, egalitarian and bias-free approach in our stakeholder communication.

We created the Dictionary of Inclusive Language to support a more conscious, inclusive and caring language in our Bank and in our stakeholder communication. The dictionary draws attention to how differences can be reflected in communication and offers inclusive alternatives to frequently used expressions in daily workflows.

The dictionary aims to help our employees to make more aware choices in communication. We see inclusive language not only as a principle but as a practice that can be embodied in everyday use.

TSKB Yanında is a program aiming to reduce invisible barriers by bringing our inclusive approach to campus life. We launched TSKB Yanında to support the psychological well-being of university students, strengthen their self-awareness and offer a space where they can feel safe. We design an inclusive approach that takes into account not only the academic and career goals of students but also their holistic well-being.

Under the program, we ensure university students meet expert psychological counsellors for one-to-one sessions. We observe that these sessions increase students' self-awareness, strengthen their emotional resilience and help them feel more psychologically balanced and secure. We conduct the process in a trusting and supportive framework that creates space for the participants' own needs.

Through TSKB Yanında, we bring our inclusive approach to campus life and aim to reduce the invisible barriers that students with disabilities face. By supporting students in building a healthier relationship with themselves and their environment, we stand by them towards a stronger and more balanced future.