Date of Commencement to Exercise the Right to Receive the Bonus Issue | 18/05/2011

18.05.2011

Share Distribution Announcement for the Capital Increase through Bonus Issues

Via the Capital Market Board’s communiqué dated 17.05.2011 and numbered B.02.6.SPK.0.13.00-105.01.01.02-969/5151; our request for a document that would be a mainstay for registration for the entering into the records of the Board of the shares with 100.000.000.- nominal value to be issued owing to the increase of our Bank’s capital issued within the registered capital ceiling that is 1.000.000.000.- TL, to 800.000.000.-TL from 700.000.000.- TL, provided that 100.000.000.- TL is to be covered from the profit of 2010 and thus conclusion of the capital increase, has been approved through the Board Resolution dated 12.05.2011 and numbered 15/447 within the frame of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency’s communiqué dated 15.04.2011 and numbered B.02.1.BDK.0.12.00.00.10/1-9662.

On 18.05.2011, an application to Istanbul Trade Registry has been made in order to register the “Certificate of Completion of Capital Increase realized by Incorporated Companies Subject to Registered Capital System” dated 16.05.2011 and numbered 36/447 issued consequently by the Capital Market Board and its supplement, the Resolution of the Board of Directors,

Our shareholders are entitled to receive 14,28571% new bonus shares and book-entry bonus shares shall be transferred to Istanbul Trade Registry on 24.05.2011 to be deposited in deposit accounts at Central Registry Agency Inc. Co. Our shareholders, who have not registered their shares and are holding them on their hands, shall be entitled to use the right of receiving bonus shares after they have registered their shares at Central Registry Agency Inc. Co.