sahibinden.com collaborates with Turkcell in mobile payment systems for its “Booster” services. “Boosters” that increase the visibility of online classifieds, can now also be purchased through mobile phones, using mobile payment.

Istanbul, Kadikoy -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/10/2010 -- With its motto "The Address for Classifieds and Shopping", sahibinden.com continues to deliver new products and services that make its users' life easier.

sahibinden.com offers free of charge listings to its users, and now enables the purchase of its Booster service through mobile phones by using Turkcell Mobile Payment.

"As mobile penetration is reaching %90 in Turkey, the mobile phone is also becoming a payment tool. We launched mobile payment for our Booster services with Turkcell in order to have our users also benefit from this secure and easy way of payment. We will continue to deliver best of breed applications and new services for sahibinden.com users." said Burak Ertas, CEO of sahibinden.com.

Ali Salc, Head of Turkcell Mobile Finance Department also commented on this brand new application and said that "Mobile payment is being used by over 1 million Turkcell subscribers and it enables them to make payment to more than 300 companies with a single SMS. We are delighted that now sahibinden.com users will also enjoy and benefit from this fast, easy and secure service."

The amount of the purchase done through Turkcell Mobile Payment is reflected to the bill for the postpaid subscribers, and deducted from Turkish Lira (TRY) credits for the prepaid subscribers. The charge of the each single SMS is 0.50 TRY for this service which will let subscribers to make payments up to 35 TRY in one attempt.

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Turkey’s #1 classifieds and e-commerce platform sahibinden.com has appointed Hakki Arikan as the new Marketing Manager responsible for both consumer and business segments.

Istanbul, Turkey -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/21/2010 -- Arikan brings more than a decade of experience in Media Planning, Brand Strategy, Marketing Communications and Mass Marketing. He began his career at Mediacom Agency in Media Planning in 1998. Afterwards, Arikan has worked as Brand Strategist in RPM / Radar and then in BBDO. He continued his career as Marketing Communications and Mass Marketing Specialist at Turkcell. Arikan was Marketing Manager at Gittigidiyor since 2008 prior to joining sahibinden.com.

"We are reinforcing our management team with top-notch professionals." said Burak Ertas, sahibinden.com CEO. "Hakki brings the depth and breadth in Marketing required to take Sahibinden to the next level in line with our long term strategy and vision. He is an industry veteran in e-commerce, online and social media, and I am confident about him contributing to our success."

Arikan holds a BA in Business Administration from Marmara University.

Besides his professional career Hakki Arikan has a personal gourmet blog located in agzimintadi.com since 2006.

About sahibinden.com
Established in 2000 and privately owned by Aksoy Group, sahibinden.com is an e-commerce platform that has a diverse and extensive portfolio with more than 1.300.000 active ads. sahibinden.com has 13 million monthly unique visitors, more than 1.4 billion monthly page views and is in top 10 in Alexa listing(*) for Turkey.

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Turkey’s #1 classifieds and e-commerce platform sahibinden.com has appointed Burak Ertas as its new CEO. Ertas was Product and Service Management Division Head at Turkcell (NYSE:TKC), Turkey’s #1 mobile network operator, prior to joining sahibinden.com

Istanbul, Kadikoy -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/09/2010 -- Ertas brings more than two decades of experience in IT, telecommunications, wireless and digital media as an executive, technologist and entrepreneur. He held various executive leadership positions in Marketing, Product Management and Business Development at Turkcell since 2004. Prior to joining Turkcell, Ertas was VP Engineering and Product Development at Telenity.

Burak Ertas said "Sahibinden is a powerful brand in Turkey, has a strong business model and enormously motivated and talented team of employees. This team has built a success story from scratch in its relatively short history, yet there are tremendous opportunities ahead to create value and we will be working together to take Sahibinden to the next level."

Ertas holds an MBA from Koc University and BSc. EE from Middle East Technical University.

About sahibinden.com
Established in 2000 and privately owned by Aksoy Group, sahibinden.com is an e-commerce platform that has a diverse and comprehensive portfolio with more than 1.300.000 active ads. sahibinden.com has 12,5 million monthly unique visitors, more than 1.4 billion monthly page views and is in top 10 in Alexa listing(*) for Turkey, ahead of Yahoo, MSN and Wikipedia.

*December 2009

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