Kaan Terzioglu

Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioğlu was announced as the winner of GSM Association's "Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry Award" for 2019 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Feb. 25.

Turkcell's network, Turkey's largest mobile operator, is "5G" ready, company CEO Kaan Terzioğlu has said.

According to Kaan Terzioğlu, CEO of Turkey’s leading mobile phone operator Turkcell, connectivity is a key concern for refugees. The first thing a refugee wants at a camp is the Wi-Fi password in an effort to connect with the people they have left behind, said Terzioğlu.

Leading Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell sees the potential to double its user count and data consumption in the next 2-3 years as it looks to maintain sales growth above the rate of inflation, its chief executive Kaan Terzioğlu told Reuters.

The U.N. Global Compact platform has named leading Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell's CEO Kaan Terzioğlu as one of the 10 Sustainable Development Goal pioneers over the company's Hello Hope mobile app for Syrian refugees, Turkcell announced on Sept. 22.      

Turkey's largest mobile phone operator Turkcell's annual general meeting on May 25 approved the distribution of a three billion lira ($841 million) dividend, a company official has told Reuters.

The company stated on May 24 that shareholders of Turkcell Holding, which holds 51 percent of Turkcell, agreed to propose the three billion lira dividend.

Turkey's leading mobile phone operator Turkcell has renovated the technological infrastructure of a Greek high school on Turkey's northwestern island of Gökçeada and held an opening ceremony for it on May 17. 

Turkcell, Turkey's biggest mobile operator, and Vodafone, one of top three mobile operators active in Turkey, were honored for their humanitarian work in supporting Syrian refugees at a major sector conference late on Feb. 26.

The award came at the GSM Association's (GSMA) Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.     

Turkey's state-run defense company ASELSAN and mobile operators Turkcell, Türk Telekom and Vodafone have cooperated to develop a base station antenna to be used for the 4.5G network.

Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan attended the signature ceremony on Jan. 26 on the sidelines of the "5G and Beyond Technologies Conference" about the use of the domestic base station antenna. 

There will be a limited participation from Ankara at the 47th World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 17-20, due to the ongoing debates over the constitutional amendment vote.   

Unless there is a last minute change, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek will participate, along with Central Bank Governor Murat Çetinkaya.