SARKUYSAN ELEKTROLİTİK BAKIR SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Ş. INFORMATION DOCUMENT FOR ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING DATED 15.04.2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS AS PART OF CAPITAL MARKETS BOARD (CMB) REGULATIONS

Among announcements to be made as per No. 1.3.1 Corporate Governance Principle found in "Corporate Governance Communiqué" No. II-17.1 of CMB, the ones related with the agenda items have been made in the associated agenda item and an overview is presented in this section:

a. Shareholding Structure and Voting Rights of Our Company with Its Issued Capital:

Our company's issued capital is TL 300,000,000 and this capital is shared among 1,500 A- group registered shares, each worth of 1 Turkish cent of nominal price and 29,999,998,500 B-group bearer shares. Each share has one voting right. There is no multiple vote securities. Administration and representation of the Company is held by the Board of Directors consisting of 12 (twelve) members to be elected during the General Assembly as per the related provisions of the Articles of Association, Turkish Commercial Code and the related legislation. General Assembly chooses 5 Board Members among the nominees to be nominated by the ones having A-group shares, 4 Board Members among the nominees to be nominated by the ones having B-group shares, and 3 Board Members among the independent member nominees to be determined and nominated before the General Assembly according to the regulations of Capital Markets Board regarding corporate governance.

Our company's shareholder structure:

Our company is a publicly traded company and the rate of our shares in the actual circulation on the stock market is 83.16% as of 09.03.2022. There is no shareholder among the remaining 16.84% who owns 10% and more of the shares.

b. Information Regarding Management and Activity Changes in Our Company or Our

Affiliates and Subsidiaries that Would Significantly Impact Company Activities

None.

c. Information regarding the Independent Board Member nominees' resumes, the quality and significance level of their relations with the partnership and the related parties of the partnership, whether they have independence qualities and other aspects that may have impacts on the partnership activities in case these people are chosen as Independent Board Members:

The General Assembly to be held on 15.04.2022 involves election of Independent Board Members. In the Capital Markets Board's Bulletin published on 13.01.2022, our Company moved up through the group 2 to the group 1* as from January 2022. Listed in the Group 1, the number of Independent Members in the Board of Directors has been obliged to be equal to the 1/3 of the total number of board members. In order to fulfill the aforementioned obligation, applications of the 5 independent members for the Board of Directors were evaluated by our Corporate Governance Committee for the upcoming period and the list of nominees was submitted to the Board of Directors. With the resolution made, the Capital Markets Board was applied for the required permission. 5 nominees for the independent members of the Board of Directors have been accepted with the permission of the Capital Markets Board.

Information regarding the nominees for the Independent Members of the Board are as follows:

Prof. Dr. Mehmet BAHTIYAR (Independent Member Nominee)

Bahtiyar was born in Andırın district of Kahramanmaraş on 27.06.1963. After finishing Adana Boy's High School in 1982, he continued his studies at Dicle University's Law Faculty and finished with a degree.

After receiving master's education as a graduate student, he finished his doctorate at Istanbul University's Law Faculty in 1993 and received the title of "Doctor of Private Law." He has traveled to F. Germany a few times in order to improve his foreign language skills and make some research.

After taking up roles at Dicle and Kocaeli Universities as Assistant Professor, he received the title of "Associate Professor" in 2000. He began working at Kocaeli University's Law Faculty in 2006 as "Commercial Law Professor." He was assigned to Yeditepe University's Law Faculty in 2014. Along with Yeditepe, he gives lectures at Bahçeşehir and Kadir HasUniversities as well. He has published 10 books and around 70 articles in the fields of commerce, banking, capital markets, law of obligations and protection of consumers.

He qualifies as a non-executive independent person as per the Corporate Governance Principles of CMB and he may be elected as an independent member.

Ayhan Zeytinoğlu (Independent Member Nominee)

Finishing his elementary, secondary and high school education at Gölçük, Kocaeli, Zeytinoğlu completed his undergraduate studies in London. He completed his business education at Indiana University, USA in 1980 and graduated in 1983 in honor list. He started his graduate studies in 1983 at Butler University in the field of International Finance and completed his studies successfully in 1985. He still continues his doctorate studies at Marmara University's Institute of European Community in the subject of European Union's Agricultural Subsidies.

He works as the General Manager at Zeytinoğlu Yem Tarım ve Endüstriyel Ürünler A.Ş. which is a family business and is responsible for mainly financial matters.

At the same time, he assumed the role of Vice President of Board of Directors at Autoport Port Operations, a partnership of Arkas and Zeytinoğlu Group, and works as the General Coordinator at Zeytinoğlu Denizcilik A.Ş.

He took charge in the establishment of Kocaeli Chamber of Industry in 1989 and still is in the Board of Directors today. He was elected as Vice President in 1995 and as President of Board of Directors of Kocaeli Chamber of Industry in January 2009. He was re-elected in the elections of May 2013 and April 2018 and continues his role as President of Board of Directors of Kocaeli Chamber of Industry. He assumed Vice Presidency of TOBB in June 2018 and continues to work in this role.

In July 2015, he was elected as the President of Board of Directors of Economic Development Foundation (İKV), a non-governmental organization which specializes on EU and Turkey - EU relations. He continues his work at the same capacity there after being re- elected for the second period of management in July 2017.

He qualifies as a non-executive independent person as per the Corporate Governance Principles of CMB and he may be elected as an independent member.

Virma Sökmen (Independent Member Nominee)

Virma Sökmen completed her secondary and high school education at Galatasaray High School. In 1988, she finished her studies as a Financing Major and Mathematics Minor in the Honors List at LaSalle University, Philadelphia, USA.

In 1992, she worked as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Department of Körfezbank and was involved with Privatization and Merger / Acquisition operations. For a short period of time in 1993, she worked at Research Department of Çarşı Securities and later started working for Midland Bank as an Analyst. Until the end of 2015, she worked in different positions in HSBC Group's core which included Midland Bank. She assumed an active and leading role in the establishment and management of Corporate Banking Department. She managed the marketing operations for many products of the Bank as Assistant General Manager, such as syndication, credit, foreign trade, derivatives and risk management. She was included in the universal talent pool of HSBC Group. At the beginning of 2016, she worked as Managing Partner in Credia Partners Consultancy Inc. She is involved in Merger / Acquisition and Subordinated Loan Operations in this company. And as of the beginning of 2019, she took the role of Independent Board Member role at Yapı Kredi Bank as well as being included in the Corporate Governance Committee. As of March 2020, she has become Loan Committee Member at Yapı Kredi Bank as well.

She has memberships at TUSIAD, IWF and similar organizations.

She participated in the Management Certificate program in Harvard Business School. She participated in International Independent Board of Directors training for 6 months which was conducted jointly by Financial Times and Pearson.

She has advanced degree knowledge of English and French.

She qualifies as a non-executive independent person as per the Corporate Governance Principles of CMB and she may be elected as an independent member.

Mehmet Ali YILDIRIMTURK (Independent Member Nominee)

He was born in Denizli in 1949. He completed his primary and secondary education in this city. Mr. Yıldırımtürk began his higher education in Yıldız University in 1968, and graduated as an Electrical Engineer in 1974.

In 1997, he founded the company, MEHMET ALTIN TİC. LTD. ŞTİ., which has been continuing its commercial activities for 25 years. Since 2000, Mr. Yıldırımtürk has been sharing his opinions about the financial markets that he has become highly interested in onwww.goldpara.com. He still owns and is the editor-in-chief ofwww.goldpara.com.

Since 1999, his comments and interviews on economy, financial markets, foreign exchange, gold, other precious metals and commodities have been published in the local, national and international radios, television channels and on printed media with the principle of 'Knowledge Grows When Shared'. Between 2008 and 2010, Mr. Yıldırımtürk had worked as the consultant of Istanbul Radio Economy Programme and between 2009-2010, he had invited guests to the "24 Ayar Altın" (24-Carat Gold) TV show on Expo Channel TV once a week and was the host of 100 live economy TV programmes. Mr. Yıldırımtürk is still invited to the national TV channels, such as Bloomberght TV, NTV, Ekotürk TV, Kanal 24 TV, Global Haber TV, TV 100, Ülke TV, to comment on daily and weekly economic developments.

Between 2009 and 2016, Mr. Yıldırımtürk was elected as the President of Istanbul Jewelers and Goldsmiths Association (IMKUSAD), a well-established association in the sector, and had continued his duties as the President for 3 terms. Mr. Yıldırımtürk had been a member of Sarkuysan's Board of Directors between 2014 and 2016.

In 2015, he published his book titled "Altının Gizemli Tarihi" (The Mysterious History of Gold), which he wrote to increase financial literacy and was sponsored by Destek Menkul Değer A.Ş.

In 2012, Mr. Yıldırımtürk was also elected as a member of the Supervisory Board at Sarkuysan Elektrolitik Bakır Sanayi ve Tic. A.Ş.

She qualifies as a non-executive independent person as per the Corporate Governance Principles of CMB and she may be elected as an independent member.

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