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.)Articles of Association 14: The following decisions of the Board of Directors are subject to the positive vote of the class CShareholder:a) As defined in Article 3.1. of the Articles of Association, taking decisions that will negatively affect the Company’smission,b) Suggesting change in the Articles of Association at General Assembly,c) Increasing share capital,d) Approval of transfer of the shares issued to the name and their registration to the “Share Registry”,e) Making decisions or taking actions which will put the Company under commitment over 5% of its total assetsconsidering the latest annual financial statements prepared for Capital Market Board per agreement (this statement willexpire when the Company’s shares held by Turkish State is below 20%),f) Making decisions relating to merges and liquidation,g) Making decisions to cancel flight routes or significantly decrease number of flights except for the ones that cannotrecover even its operational expenses subject to the market conditions.Benefits of class C shares solely restricted Privatization High Council or another Public Institution which the HighCouncil delegates its authority. According to related part of the agreement, shares holded by foreign shareholders cannot excess 40% of total shares.Restricted Profit ReservesThe legal reserves consist of first and second reserves, appropriated in accordance with the Turkish Commercial Code(TCC). The TCC stipulates that the first legal reserve is appropriated out of statutory profits at the rate of 5% per annum,until the total reserve reaches 20% of the company’s paid-in share capital. The second legal reserve is appropriated atthe rate of 10% per annum of all cash distributions in excess of 5% of the paid-in share capital. Under the TCC, the legalreserves can only be used to offset losses and are not available for any other usage unless they exceed 50% of paid-inshare capital.Foreign Currency Translation AdjustmentMethod for consolidation purpose is, according to IAS 21, monetary items in statutory financial statements istranslated to USD using year-end exchange rates, non-monetary items in balance sheet, income/expenses and cashflow are transleted to USD by using the exchange rate of the transaction date (historic rate), and currency translationdifferences are presented under equity. Translation profit/loss from foreign currency transactions is presented undercurrency translation item in financial income of income statement. Also, currency translation differences in equitiesof the Groups’s joint ventures; Güneş Ekspres Havacılık A.Ş. (Sun Express) and Bosnia Herzegovina Airlines which areconsolidated by using equity method, are presented under currency translation item. Foreign currency translationdifferences are the changes due to foreign exchange rate changes in the shareholders’ equity Sun Express and BosniaHerzegovina Airlines, which are subsidiaries accounted for equity method.Distribution of DividendsCompanies whose shares are traded at Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) are subject to the following dividend rulesdetermined by Capital Markets Board:According to the Serial:IV No:27 Communiqué of Capital Markets Board, depending on the decision made inshareholders’ meeting, the profit distribution can be made either by giving bonus shares to shareholders which areissued either in cash or by adding dividend to capital or giving some amount of cash and some amount of bonus sharesto shareholders. If the primary dividend amount determined is less than 5% of the paid-in capital, the decision gives theoption of not to distribute the related amount as to keep within the equity.48 TÜRK HAVA YOLLARI ANNUAL REPORT 2012