• Profile
  • TSKB in Brief
  • TSKB's Subsidiaries
  • Products and Services Of TSKB
• Performance
  • Value Creation
  • Awards & Recognitions
  • CEO's Assessment
• Approach
  • TSKB's Sustainable Banking Strategy
  • TSKB's Sustainability Priorities
• Dialogue
  • TSKB and Stakeholder Engagement
  • TSKB's Stakeholders
  • 2010 Stakeholder Dialogue Highlights
• Sustainability and Environmental Issues
  • Sustainable Banking at TSKB
  • Sustainable Banking Performance: the Economic Dimension
  • The Renewable Energy Sector and TSKB
  • TSKB Energy Index
  • TSKB, Climate Change, and the Environment
  • TSKB's Efforts on Behalf of Sustainability and the Environment
  • Who Wouldn't Want to Be Sustainable?
  • ISO 14001 Certification
  • The Structure of the TSKB Environmental Management Team
  • TSKB's Environment Policy
  • TSKB's Environmental Impact
  • Sustainable Banking Performance: the Environmental Dimension
  • Developments in External Environmental Impact
• Corporate Governance
  • Absolute Compliance With Laws and Regulations
  • TSKB's Corporate Governance Structure
  • Compliance With Corporate Governance Principles
  • Risk Management at TSKB
  • Prevention of Money-Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism
  • Relations with Suppliers
• People
  • Human Resources and the Workplace at TSKB
  • The TSKB Performance Management System
  • TSKB Compensation and Reward System
  • TSKB Human Resources Structure
  • Human Rights and Employee Rights at TSKB
  • Competency Development and Training
  • Health and Safety at TSKB
  • Commuting By Sea
  • Internal Communication at TSKB
• The Community
  • Social Responsibility at TSKB
  • "Environment: Our Priority": Past and present
  • The NGOs that TSKB Collaborates with
• Summarized TSKB Goals and Performance
• Appendices
  • About This Report
  • Statement GRI Application Level Check
  • Global Reporting Initiative Cross Index
  • Online Sustainability
  • Imprint
  • Communication and Service Channels

ABOUT THIS REPORT

The scope and limits of this report
This is the second sustainability report published by Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası A.Ş. (herein referred to as “TSKB” or “the Bank”).

TSKB’s sustainability performance as covered by this report is concerned primarily with the issues of:

• The environment and sustainable banking
• Corporate governance and compliance
• Social responsibility.

These issues are considered from the standpoints of stakeholders, corporate structure, banking, the environment, human resources, and the community.

As part of this study, TSKB performed a stakeholder analysis which involved conducting a survey in which the Bank contacted the members of its stakeholder community in the broadest sense (shareholders, investments, non-governmental organizations, government authorities, and media representatives) and solicited feedback from all of them. In addition to this systematic effort, findings from the ordinary day-to-day relations of the Bank’s units and employees also served as a valuable data base and source of reference points for this study.

The matters considered in this report were determined, in light of systematic and internationally recognized auditing procedures carried out at TSKB since 2006, as a result of discussions and meetings with members of the Bank’s senior and middle management as well as on the basis of stakeholder feedback. The TSKB Board of Directors has been provided with detailed information about this report.

The Environmental Banking Focus Group, on which TSKB’s management is represented at the highest level, as well as the TSKB Environment Management System and Corporate Social Responsibility teams and all involved Bank units contributed to this project, which was carried out under the leadership of the TSKB Environmental Management Representative.

The contents of this report are limited to TSKB’s own activities and do not cover the Bank’s subsidiaries and affiliates. It was decided to report solely on TSKB performance inasmuch as the Bank itself accounts for by far the biggest part of its consolidated financial results.

The period covered by this report
Unless otherwise indicated, this report covers the eighteen months beginning on 1 July 2009 and ending on 31 December 2010. (The six months from 1 July to 31 December 2009 are referred to throughout the report as “2009 2nd half”.)

The information provided in this report will serve as the basis for comparison in any future sustainability reports which TSKB may publish.

Reporting cycle
TSKB will continue to report on its sustainability performance at eighteen-month intervals in the future. The next report, which the Bank expects to publish in the second half of 2012, will cover its performance during the eighteen months beginning on 1 January 2011 and ending on 30 June 2012.

Reporting Structure & Assurance
TSKB has a long history of reporting on its economic performance. This report, designed to give stakeholders access to detailed and current information on our sustainability performance, enriches that tradition. It is designed to demonstrate accountability and transparency, while also showing how sustainability is being integrated into all aspects of our business. In addition, the report serves as a research and teaching tool for our internal and external stakeholders and drives best practices throughout our company. The information contained in our sustainability reporting is supplemented by other TSKB reports and documents. These include the annual and interim reports.

While we work toward full data assurance for all significant sustainability data reported, we will continue to rely on other existing means of assurance we already have. In addition to our comprehensive internal metrics systems, we employ a variety of internal and external processes to bring assurance that our operations are transparent and the information we report is accurate and truly reflective of our actual results. While TSKB’s financial performance is independently audited and majority of the KPIs presented in this report are checked by TÜV Rheinlend since 2006 as part of the ISO 14001 periodical audits.

Statement of compliance with GRI principles
TSKB declares that this report was prepared in accordance with Level B of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Reporting Guide version 3.1.

We confirm that we will use and publish the GRI Content Index template as our own Content Index in this report (Both PDF and electronic versions).

How this report is published
TSKB publishes its sustainability reports in the Turkish and English languages. Interactive electronic versions of these reports are available on the Bank’s website, from which they may also be download as PDF files.