Financial - Turkish Airlines

(Convenience Translation of Report and Financial Statements Originally Issued in Turkish)TÜRK HAVA YOLLARI ANONİM ORTAKLIĞI AND ITS SUBSIDIARIESNotes to the Audited Consolidated Financial StatementsFor the Year Ended 31 December 2012(All amounts are expressed in Turkish Lira (TL) unless otherwise stated.)The Capital Markets Board (“CMB”) has established principles, procedures and basis on the preparation of financialreports by enterprises and the representation of the reports with Communiqué Series XI, No: 29 “Communiqué on CapitalMarket Financial Reporting Standards”. This Communiqué is applicable for the first interim financial statements to beprepared after 1 January 2008 and with this Communiqué, the Communiqué Series XI, No: 29 “Communiqué on CapitalMarket Accounting Standards” has been repealed. In accordance with this Communiqué, the companies are supposedto prepare their financial statements in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (“IAS/IFRS”)accepted by the European Union. Nevertheless, until the discrepancies between the IAS/IFRS accepted by the EuropeanUnion, and the IAS/IFRS declared by IASB are announced by the Turkish Accounting Standards Board (“TASB”), IAS/IFRSwill be in use. Under these circumstances, Turkish Accounting Standards/Turkish Financial Reporting Standards (“TAS/TFRS”), which are the standards published by TASB, not contradicting with IAS/IFRS will be predicated on.The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with IFRS and comply withCMB’s decree announce on 17 April 2008 and 9 January 2009 regarding the format of the financial statements andfootnotes since at the date of the issuance of these financial statements the differences of IAS/IFRS accepted by theEuropean Union are not declared by the TASB that are accounted at fair value.Statutory Decree No: 660, which has been become effective and published in the Official Gazette on 2 November 2011,and the Additional Clause 1 of the Law No: 2499 were nullified and accordingly, Public Oversight, Accounting and AuditStandards Institution (the “Institution”) was established. As per Additional Article 1 of the Statutory Decree, applicablelaws and standards will apply until new standards and regulations be issued by the Institution and will becomeeffective. In this respect, the respective matter has no effect over the ‘Basis of The Preparation of Financial Statements”Note disclosed in the accompanying financial statements as of the reporting date.All financial statements, except for investment property and derivative financial instruments, have been prepared oncost basis principal.Currency Used In Financial StatementsChange in the functional currencyAlthough the currency of the country in which the Company is domiciled is Turkish Lira (TL), for the purpose of thisreport the Company’s functional currency is determined as US Dollar. US Dollar is used to a significant extent in, or has asignificant impact on, the operations of the Company and reflects the economic substance of the underlying events andcircumstances relevant to the Company. Therefore, the Company uses the US Dollar in measuring items in its financialstatements and as the reporting currency. All currencies other than the currency selected for measuring items in thefinancial statements are treated as foreign currencies. Accordingly, transactions and balances not already measured inUS Dollar have been remeasured in US Dollar.Translation to the prensentation currencyThe Group’s presentation currency is TL. The US Dollar financial statements of the Group are translated into TL as thefollowing methods under IAS 21 (“The Effects of Foreign Exchange Rates”):(a) Assets and liabilities in the balance sheet as of 31 December 2012 are translated into TL at the prevailing exchangerates of the Central Bank of Turkish Republic (31 December 2012: TL 1,7826 = US Dollar 1).(31 December 2011:TL 1,8889 = US Dollar 1);(b) The income statement prepared for the year ended as of 31 December 2012 and 2011 is translated into TL by using2012 and 2011 average US Dollar exchange rates; and(c) All differences are recognized as a separate equity item under exchange differences.8 TÜRK HAVA YOLLARI ANNUAL REPORT 2012