2017 Annual Report
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    • Türkiye Finans Advisory Board

    The Advisory Board refers to the board that is authorized to determine the standards that the Bank should comply with and to take advisory decisions based on international standards and scientific approaches in order to apply Participation Banking principles. Communication between the Advisory Board and the Bank is carried out by Participation Banking Compliance and Development Service. The Advisory Board held 4 meetings with participation of all members in 2017.

    In 2017, Türkiye Finans published its “Participation Banking Policy” and “Participation Banking Procedure”, the first of their kind in Turkey. Under the Participation Banking Policy, the Advisory Board’s decisions are accepted as binding. The working structure and decisions of the Advisory Board are stated explicitly under the Participation Banking Procedure.

    The Advisory Board’s decisions concerning products and services are communicated to the related Units by the Participation Banking Compliance and Development Service. The Advisory Board’s decisions are put into practice by reflecting them to internal legislation documents through the Participation Banking Compliance and Development Service. An effective audit mechanism is established by establishing control points.

    The Türkiye Finans Advisory Board has the following duties and responsibilities:

    Members of the Türkiye Finans Advisory Board

    The Bank’s Advisory Board consists of five members, three of which are entitled to vote. Although the other two members do not hold the right to vote, they provide information on financial matters.

    Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Karaman
    Chairman of the Board
    (entitled to vote)

    Born in 1934 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Karaman graduated from the Konya İmam Hatip High School in 1959 and from the İstanbul Higher Islamic Institute in 1963. He started working as an assistant at the İstanbul Higher Islamic Institute in 1965. He began teaching fiqh after completing his thesis entitled “Islamic Law Jurisprudence from the Beginning until the Fourth Century”. In 1980, when the school transformed into the Faculty of Theology, he was promoted to the position of associate professor, then to full professor. Having retired at the beginning of 2001, Hayrettin Karaman is currently a columnist for the daily Yeni Şafak newspaper. In addition, he also carries out scientific studies. Hayrettin Karaman speaks Arabic, Persian and French; his periodical writings are published in the Journal of Real Life and Education and Science Magazine. A website, which contains his books and articles, is also available.

    Prof. Dr. Hamdi Döndüren
    Member
    (entitled to vote)

    Prof. Dr. Hamdi Döndüren was born in 1943 in Balıkesir. After the completion of the Hıfz, he graduated from an İmam Hatip High School and general high school. He graduated from the İstanbul Higher Islamic Institute and the Faculty of Law at İstanbul University. He held the positions of Preacher of Central Balıkesir and as Mufti of Çanakkale, Bozcaada. He was appointed as a Lecturer of Procedure at the Islamic Law and Fiqh, at the Konya Higher Islamic Institute. He has been continuing the same work at the Bursa Higher Islamic Institute and in the Faculty of Theology at Uludağ University since 11 June 1973. He completed his doctoral studies in 1983 which he started in the field of Islamic Law in the Faculty of Theology in Ankara University 1978. He received Associate Professor title on 25 October, 1998. At the invitation of the Saudi Arabia Imam Muhammad b. Saud al-Islamiyya University, he performed research at this university in 1986. He was given the title of Professor and was retired from the Faculty of Theology at Uludağ University.

    Doç. Dr. İsak Emin Aktepe
    Vice Chairman of the Board
    (entitled to vote)

    Doç. Dr. İsak Emin Aktepe was born in Erzincan in 1975. He completed his primary school, middle school and high school education in Erzincan. He started his university education at the Faculty of Theology at Marmara University in 1992, where he graduated in 1997. He then completed a Master’s degree in the Social Sciences Institute of the same university in 1999, with a thesis entitled “The Approach to Some Hadith Issues of the Imam Shafii in the Framework of Three of His Works” and completed a doctorate in 2005 with his thesis entitled “Sunnet Prior to the Shafi’i and Imam Shafii”. He was given the title of Associate Professor in 2011. After 1997, following his work in foundations and associations as a director and an educator, he started working in the Participation Banking sector and became a consultant for Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası in 2004. He was appointed as a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at Erzincan University in 2012.

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