TCMA 2020 ANNUAL REPORT

OVERVIEW OF 2020 Distinguished Members, We are going through a period when the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak that is dominating the global system and threatening human health has become the number 1 priority. During the reporting period in which we had to deal with the consequences of economic pressures resulting from the Covid-19 outbreak that acquired the nature of a global epidemic, combating the pandemic has been the key agenda topic of governments and economy leaders as well. Yet, the fast pace of the vaccination campaigns around the world and in our country nurture our hopes in relation to the fight against the pandemic. I am hoping that we have by now embarked upon a period where humanity is triumphing over the pandemic. We were elected for this important role to serve as the new board of directors of the Turkish Capital Markets Association in September 2020. As the entire management team, we are working without letup to duly perform this duty. On behalf As a result of the growing interest in the capital markets, we witnessed the number of domestic individual investors that floated along the line of 1 million people for many years close in on 2 million people by 2020 year-end. 16 TCMA 2020 ANNUAL REPORT