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Süleyman Çetinsaya, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Artaş Holding and Avrupakent REIT, was born in Kayseri in 1954.

After graduating from Kayseri Trade High School, Çetinsaya started his business life by stepping into the real estate sector in Istanbul and founded Artaş İnşaat in 1977. In addition to residential complexes and business centres, he entered the tourism sector by constructing hotels between 1982 and 1992 and the retail sector by building the Carousel Shopping Centre in 1995.

In 2004, he started to produce housing projects by creating the Avrupa Konutları brand and became a pioneer in the branded housing sector. Süleyman Çetinsaya, who has made Artaş İnşaat one of the leading companies of the real estate sector and the country, has also carried out symbolic projects of Istanbul such as Vadistanbul and Tema Istanbul.

He has also undertaken the management and operation of the housing, shopping centre and accommodation facilities that he has constructed, aiming for quality sustainability in all his projects.

Founded in 2010, Avrupakent A.Ş. was transformed into a Real Estate Investment Trust in 2023 and today its portfolio includes prestigious shopping centres, residences and valuable real estates in various locations.

With Hacı Ömer Çetinsaya Foundation, which was established with the mission of providing a better future for children and young people, he carries out many projects for education, health and worship areas.

Çetinsaya is a founding member of the Real Estate Investment Trust Association, the Chairman of the High Advisory Board of the Association of Shopping Centres Investors and the Founding Member of the Turkish Tourism Investors Association. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and has an Honorary Doctorate from Erciyes University.

He is married and has 3 sons.

Born in 1984 in Istanbul, Gökhan Çetinsaya graduated from Bahçeşehir Faculty of Communication.

Çetinsaya is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Artaş Holding, which operates in the fields of construction, real estate, tourism, retail and industry, and has managed both the construction and post-delivery processes of Avrupa Konutları branded housing projects. Çetinsaya is also responsible for the management of Artaş Energy projects.

He is an active member of the board of directors of Turkey's leading real estate associations and foundations such as GYODER (Association of Real Estate Investors), KONUTDER (Association of Housing Developers and Investors) and KENTSEV (Foundation of Urban Transformation and Urbanisation). Çetinsaya also has investments in the field of serviced and virtual office rental under the Platform Office brand.

Gökhan Çetinsaya is married and has two children.

Muhsin Erkoç graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Marmara University in 2000. In 2003, he completed his master's degree in both Industrial Engineering and Electronic Commerce at Clemson University in the United States. Muhsin Erkoç has 21 years of experience as a manager in real estate and various sectors, and supports this experience with two post-graduate education degrees. He has served as a director of international and national firms with high business volumes. He has high experience in competitive environments, business development, building and managing high-performance teams, and supplier management. He served as General Manager of the Company between the years 2017 and 2024. As of 2024, he continues to serve as a Member of the Board of Directors at Avrupakent REIT.

Fatih Rüştü Kaplan completed his first, secondary and high school education in Istanbul. Fatih Rushtid Kaplan, who graduated in 2001 from the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Marmara University, earned his master's degrees by making double branches in the Financial Economics - Macro Economy and Financial Law - Tax Law Departments at the University of Marmara. His master's thesis (2004), Special Consumption Taxes and Turkey Practices, and his Proof and Comment (2003) in Tax Law are available. In 2002, Kaplan started his banking career with QNB Finansbank Inc., Koçbank Inc. and Akbank T.A.S., respectively. After working in the banking and financial sector, branch commercial banking, loan allocation teams, he served as a Joint Commercial Branch Director at Akbank in 2011. In the following years, he served as director of commercial banking marketing for the district and then the General Directorate. He has worked mainly in corporate, commercial, investment banking and project finance. In 2019, Kaplan became Head of the Financial Group at Akbank Bahçekapı Commercial Branch, ending a 20-year banking career in 2022. He also serves as a Board Member in Steel Rope and Tel Industries Inc., and is a Free Accountant Financial Counsel.

Vahdettin Ertaş graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University in 1987, completing his master's degree in business administration at Hacettepe University in 1991. In 1996, he received an MBA from the University of Lancaster in England, and a PhD from Hacettepe University's Business Department in 2012. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Vahdettin Ertas, an expert in 1991, was appointed Chairman of the Department of Corporate Investors, who in 1997 organized and ran the business and operations of the SEC, regulated investment funds and partnerships, real estate investment funds and partnerships, venture capital funds and individual pension funds. In April 2002-2005, he was the Chairman of the Association Finance Agency, which regulates and operates the activities and operations of publicly traded companies such as public releases, bond and similar capital market brokerage exports, mergers, divisions and calls. Vahdettin Ertas, who served as chairman of the Gold Exchange in 2005-2006, was appointed board member of the SPK in December 2006 and was appointed Chairman of the Board in December 2012 after completing his six-year term as Chairman of the Board. Vahedin Ertas, who completed his five-year term as President in December 2017, served as a member of the Tax Council, DASK Board of Directors, Chairman of the Investors' Compensation Fund, and five years as head of the fund, which comprised regulatory authorities in the capital market of 57 Islamic countries. Vahdettin Ertaş also taught graduate courses at the university. Vahdettin Ertas serves as Executive Board Member of the Turkish Stock Exchange, Nuh Cement Inc., Panora Real Estate Investment Partnership Inc., and ve Çelik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.Ş..

Born in the Army in 1958, Ferda Besli graduated from the Istanbul University School of Economics in 1985. Ferda Besli began his business in 1987 in Akbank T.A.S. and served in several history as Inspector, Branch Manager, Department of Corporate Banking, Department of Commercial Banking and Department of SME banking. From 2006 to 2011, Ferda Besli was deputy director general and was in charge of commercial banking, SME, project financing and cash management. During his banking period, he interned at Deutsche Bank AG Frankfurt and studied marketing strategy at the London Business School. Again, he represented our country at meetings in Barcelona and Brussels, where solutions were being produced to increase SME access to funding, organized by the European Center for Policy Research (CEPS), one of the founders of the European Union. Ferda Besli retired in 2011 and founded Besfin Financial Services Inc. in the same year. Ferda Besli, currently Chairman of the Executive and Executive Board of this company, holds the Turkish Capital Markets Board Capital Market Operations Level 3 License, Credit Rating and Corporate Governance Ratings Licenses. TUSIAD worked as a member of the World Association of Futurists WFS, Chatham House, a think tank organization in the UK. He is fluent in English.

In 1986, she graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law. After completing her legal internship, she started her professional career at the Capital Markets Board in 1988 as an Assistant Specialist Lawyer and was promoted to Specialist Lawyer and Chief Specialist Lawyer, respectively, and also served as Deputy Head of the Department of Partnership Finance for three years. In 2008, after retiring from the Capital Markets Board, she has been serving as a Legal Advisor / Lawyer to publicly traded companies / holdings, companies wishing to go public, capital market institutions and organisations, individual and institutional investors in the fields of Capital Markets Law, Company Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Partnership Finance, preparation of independent legal reports on the legal status of companies in terms of establishment and activities and whether the legal status of shares is in compliance with the legislation they are subject to. In 2017, she was registered in the Ministry of Justice Mediators Registry. She holds Capital Market Activities Level 3 Licence, Corporate Governance Rating Licence, Real Estate Appraisal Licence, Derivative Instruments Licence and Credit Rating Licence. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Capital Markets Association for two terms. She served as a member of the Advisory Board during the establishment of the Istanbul Arbitration Centre. She served as an Independent Board Member at Yeni Gimat Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş. for 7 years. She served as an Independent Board Member at Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik A.Ş. for 6 years. She is currently serving as an Independent Board Member at Avrupakent Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı A.Ş.