Ziraat Bankası 2011 Faaliyet Raporu

Introduction

Management and Corporate Governance Practices

Information on the Activities of the Committees

Attendance by the Members of the Board of Directors and of the Audit Committee in the Meetings Held During the Reporting Period

Related Party Transactions

Activities for Which Support Services are Outsourced in Accordance with the "Regulation Concerning the Outsourcing of Support Services by Banks and the Authorization of Organizations Providing Such Services" and the Persons and Organizations from Which they are Obtained

Financial Information and Risk Management

Statutory Auditors Report

Audit Committee's Assessment of the Operation of the Internal Audit, Internal Control, and Risk Management Systems

Independent Auditor's Report; Unconsolidated Financial Statements and Notes for the Period January 1- December 31, 2011

Ziraat Bank's Financial Standing, Profitability and Solvency

Ratios

Risk Management Policies Adhered to According to Types of Risk

31 December 2007 – 31 December 2011 Summary Balance Sheet and Income Statement

Credit Ratings

Independent Auditor's Report; Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes for the Period January 1 - December 31, 2011

Social Responsibility at Ziraat Bank

Continuing to invest in Turkey's future through comprehensive social responsibility projects, Ziraat Bank unstintingly works to support individuals and the community in various areas such as culture, art, education and sport.

The Bank is determined to take its social responsibility mission one step forward every year and to provide continuity in this area.

Continuing to invest in Turkey’s future through comprehensive social responsibility projects, Ziraat Bank unstintingly works to support individuals and the community in various areas such as culture, art, education and sport.

Conducting projects that, in particular, contribute to the cultural knowledge of the community, the Bank is determined to take its social responsibility mission one step forward every year and to provide continuity in this area.

Support for sport
As in the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 football seasons, Ziraat Bank became a sponsor of the royalty of the Turkish Football Cup for the 2011-2012 season. The organization was renamed as the “Ziraat Turkish Cup”.

“In Art for Art”
Having expressed the importance that it has been attaching to art and artists since its foundation under the slogan, “In Art for Art”, Ziraat Bank continued to support events in various artistic disciplines in 2011.

Supporting art since the 1990’s, Ziraat Bank expanded its support through new initiatives. The Bank opened the Mithatpaşa, Kuğulu, Tünel and Kızıltan Ulukavak art galleries and the Ömer Nafi Güvenli Exhibition Hall for art-lovers. During the 2010-2011 exhibition season, more than 100,000 art-lovers visited a total of 33 exhibitions at the Kuğulu and Mithatpaşa art galleries in Ankara, and at the Tünel art gallery in Istanbul. With a total of 2,249 works of art, including 32 new paintings, Ziraat Bank’s original collection represents one of the richest collections of paintings in our country.

Ziraat Bank’s contribution to art continued with the cinema hall at the Mithatpaşa Show Center. A total of 24 films were shown to cinema lovers in 2011 at Ziraat Bank’s cinema, the only cinema in Turkey to operate for the common good. More than 60,000 viewers watched these films.

In 2011, educational animated films were shown to the pupils of schools designated by the Ministry of National Education for 4 days a week for a period of 8 weeks within the framework of the joint working platform between Ziraat Bank and Ankara Governorship’s Provincial Directorate of National Education.

Under this project, which aimed to entertain school pupils and ensure that they like the films, as well as to increase their motivation and improve their social habits, pupils were transported in shuttle buses provided by the Bank together with their teachers. In this 8-week program, a total of 6,200 pupils from 30 schools benefited from this service.

Turkey’s First Banking Museum
The Ziraat Bank Museum, which opened on November 20th, 1981, is located in the Ceremonial Hall of the Bank’s Original Head Office building in Ankara’s Ulus district. The museum, which has borne witness to the Bank’s 148 year-long past, including momentous events such as the birth of the Republic of Turkey, was the first museum to be opened in Turkey to be devoted to banking.

The Ziraat Bank Museum offers a view of the commercial, economic, political, cultural, artistic and educational transformations that the Turkish banking industry has undergone since its beginning right up to the present day. On display in this historic setting are a host of objects and materials highlighting the progress and development of banking in Turkey.

Other activities
Ziraat Bank provided donations to help those people – our brethren and our friends – who were forced to leave their homelands because of the drought in Africa in 2011. Moreover, the Bank staged aid campaigns to support those who had become victims of the earthquakes in Van and in its districts on October 23rd, 2011.