PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT IV

DATE: 10 MAY 2024

PRESS STATEMENT:

During their show entitled “A’dan Z’ye / Gündem”, aired on 10.05.2024, CNN TURK television network has displayed the footage, which entered the expert report dated 24.04.2024, which were included in the file following the decoding of CDs and discs in the file numbered 2023/341 E. of the 41^st Assize Court of Istanbul, in a SCENARIO GENERATED different to what it is in reality, contradictory to press ethics and legal rules. .

We would like to stress in particular that, during the aforementioned broadcast, the expert report dated 24.04.2024, which was drafted by Digital Forensics Experts with regard to the file numbered 2023/341 E. of the 41^st Assize Court of Istanbul, was taken out of its context, and served to the public, LITERALLY ALTERING ITS CONTENTS.

The expert report shown during the broadcast is the report related to the decoding of the footage related to the branch entry and exit of persons that are in the indictment as plaintiff, defendant or witness, and their transactions at the branch, available in the file of 41^st Assize Court of Istanbul, drafted after examining the security footage in 162 CDs and 18 discs in total, belonging to Levent Büyükdere branch and submitted to the investigating authority by our Bank in April 2023. The report, CONTARY TO WHAT IS ALLEGED on the relevant broadcast, WAS NOT GENERATED BY RESTORING OR RECOVERING DELETED CAMERA FOOTAGE.

Although the mentioned report SPECIFIED IN DETAIL IN A TABLE WHEN certain people related to the case ENTERED AND EXITED THE BRANCH and provided ALL FOOTAGE “WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATIONS”, the footage in question was served during the relevant broadcast by the broadcaster IN A STORYLINE CREATED BY THEM AND IRRELEVANT TO REALITY AND BY PROVIDING AN EXPLANATION UNDER EACH FOOTAGE, FITTING THE SCENARIO GENERATED.

While the broadcast was not in line with journalism ethics, it has become mandatory to provide the enclosed detailed statement in order to prevent the information pollution which has arisen as a consequence.

We would like to remind that the same TV network, via the same reporter, had hosted the plaintiff attorney who distorted the truth by conveying one of the Bank’s executive’s pictures taken in Erzurum, as if they were taken in a ski trip in France, within the framework of the relevant subject, resulting in news misleading the public opinion.

Our Bank has initiated legal action on the relevant broadcasting organisation and the reporter, with regard to the mentioned broadcast, which was apparently manipulative and intentional towards the public opinion.

Kindly submitted for your information.

Kind Regards,

DenizBank Financial Services Group

DETAILED EXPLANATION ABOUT THE FOOTAGE DISTORTED DURING THE CNN TURK BROADCAST DATED 10 MAY 2024:

1- TERİM ARICAN

THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SUBTITLES DISPLAYED SUITABLE TO THE GENERATED SCENARIO IS AS FOLLOWS ACCORDING TO THE EXPERT REPORT.

Despite the fact that, throughout the entire process, Terim Arıcan stated that he handed the money to Seçil Erzan on 02.11.2022, the footage served with the subtitles “THE MOMENT WHEN THE MONEY WAS HANDED AT THE BANK”, belonged to 13.01.2023. Terim Arıcan has been our bank’s customer long before the date of the incident. The footage dated 13.01.2023 aired during the broadcast was related to his arrival at the branch to carry out CASH WITHDRAWAL transaction, which is a real banking transaction on such date, and it is clear that such footage is irrelevant to the ongoing case.

2- EMRE BELÖZOĞLU-VOLKAN BAHÇEKAPILI

THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SUBTITLES DISPLAYED SUITABLE TO THE GENERATED SCENARIO IS AS FOLLOWS ACCORDING TO THE EXPERT REPORT.

Also, although Emre Belözoğlu and Volkan Bahçekapılı, who are in the footage, claimed that they handed money to Seçil Erzan on the dates of 17.03.2023, 18.03.2023 and 28.03.2023, the footage aired in the mentioned broadcast belongs to 07.04.2023. The aired footage belonged to the instance when these people came to the branch on 07.04.2023, to talk to Seçil Erzan about the incident that is the subject matter of the litigations, and it is clear that this footage is not related to the handing of cash, which is the subject matter of the case.

3- SELÇUK İNAN

THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SUBTITLES DISPLAYED SUITABLE TO THE GENERATED SCENARIO IS AS FOLLOWS ACCORDING TO THE EXPERT REPORT.

Although Selçuk İnan, seen in the footage and an old customer of our Bank, claimed that he handed money to Seçil Erzan on the dates of 20.09.2022, 28.09.2022, 29.09.2022, 05.10.2022 and 06.10.2022 and he was given documents dated 04.09.2022, 30.09.2022 and 28.03.2023, the scenes aired in the said broadcast with the heading “THE BANK OFFICER GIVES DOCUMENTS TO İNAN”, belonged to 07.03.2023. Contrary to what is stated on the broadcast, Selçuk İnan had arrived at the branch on that particular date for the transaction of SIGNING A FAST-PASS SYSTEM (HGS) TAG AGREEMENT, not to hand money to Seçil Erzan or receive any document.

4- EMRAH ÇOLAK

THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SUBTITLES DISPLAYED SUITABLE TO THE GENERATED SCENARIO IS AS FOLLOWS ACCORDING TO THE EXPERT REPORT.

The footage dated 11.01.2023 aired related to Emrah Çolak are not related to footage of cash depositing in the branch by Emrah Çolak, as we stated in our previous press statements. On the contrary, these are footage related to Emrah Çolak’s withdrawal of money from the branch, upon the cash transfer carried out by Emre Çolak.

When the case is that clear, it is indisputable that the news content that the mentioned broadcasting organisation created with phrases such as “CAMERA FOOTAGE OF MONEY TRAFFIC”, “IS THE BANK OR THE PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME”, “IT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT THE BANK WAS NOT INFORMED ABOUT THE MONEY EXCHANGE”, “EVERYONE WHO DEPOSITS MONEY INTO THE FUND LEAVES THE BANK HOLDING A PIECE OF PAPER”, spreading FALSE INFORMATION that the footage indicated in the expert report is FOOTAGE RELATED TO CASH DELIVERIES, WHICH ARE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ONGOING CASE HEARD AT 41^st ASSIZE COURT OF ISTANBUL, serves the purpose of MANIPULATING the public opinion and the court.

You may find information on the entire process via this link.

Regards,

DenizBank Financial Services Group

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