Dear Valuable Colleagues,

Turkey, success of which has been mentioned among the developing countries with its moves, one more successful than the other, in economical, environmental, social and cultural terms in recent years, suffers from a turbulent process due to the current political uncertainty environment unfortunately.

After the early elections to take place in November in particular, we deeply believe that such uncertainty environment shall fully disappear and that our country shall achieve sustainable successes with its prestige at the global level by making progress in a strong and decisive manner again on the way of future.

If we also consider the automotive sub-industry in which we serve as Aktas Holding and the automotive main industry as a whole; we see that our country has entered into a significant rising process with its successful steps in the automotive sector following the crisis which globally started in 2008.

For instance, Turkey reached the best export figure in its history on a sector-specific basis in August and it represent us a very important success for the automotive which is one of the locomotive sectors for the future goals of our country.

In the light of the current data explained by the Turkish Statistics Institution (TUIK), we see that the number of vehicles in our country, which was 8.6 million in 2002, increased to 19.5 million with an increase of 125 percent in the past 13 years. Of course, it is a very high increase…

I believe that our country shall continue to rise the high success speed achieved by it both in production and export and sales in the automotive sector at a global level and that Turkey shall provide the sector with very important added value opportunities in all aspects in the following periods.

Of course, we witness certain problems suffered by the important building stones, especially from the German automotive industry, at the global scale recently. Naturally, this situation would result in various fluctuations for the sector in the short and long term. However, I believe that the required actions shall be taken and measures shall be taken rapidly and that the automotive sector, among the most important factors of the global economy, shall close this process with the minimum loss.

As Aktas Holding, we are preparing for the following year with big hopes and expectations after a successfully progressing process when we enter in the last quarter of 2015. The top goal of us is to make Aktas Holding, which raised its success strip one grade each passing day, the “determiner” of the sector in the global arena together with our new steps…

Best Regards,

Sami Erol / Aktas Holding Chief Executive Officer and Board Member