CODE OF ETHICS AND HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY

Verusa Holding ("Company") and affiliated companies ("Verusa Group") aim to create an honest and fair, non-discriminatory, safe and healthy working environment where personal rights of our employees are used fully and completely and equality in opportunity and to ensure that respect is given to all stakeholders in contact with the belief that our human resources are the most important element of sustainable development.

Our Group undertakes to perform its business activities in an honest and ethical manner on the basis of respect for human rights, and to act in accordance with laws and regulations wherever it operates. With the same sensitivity, our group expects its suppliers to act according to the following principles based on respect for human rights.

In line with the Human Resources and Code of Ethics (Policy), while the Company and Verusa Group carry out their activities within the framework of the following principles, they expect full compliance from employees:

Is respectful towards human rights.
Offers career opportunities within the company in line with the competencies and performances of the employees.
Integrates mechanisms that prevent discrimination in recruitment, pricing and employment contract processes due to age, gender, race, religion, language, ethnicity, belief, marital, social or economic status, disability, political opinion, participation and membership in trade union activities, pregnancy or military service status.
Rewards success with fair and competitive wage policies, effective and objective performance evaluation systems and practices.
Aims to continuously develop and improve human resources policies.
Ensures the protection of its employees with the awareness that they have a right to work under human working conditions, in healthy ans secure environment.
Aims to establish relationships with our employees based on ethical and corporate governance principles.
Develops practices to keep employees loyal and in high motivation.
Provides training opportunities aimed to personal development of the employees in addition to occupational development, based on equality and without discrimination.
It expects employees to protect the integrity of information and assets belonging to the company and its stakeholders.
It strives to reduce air and water emissions by being careful in energy and water use, reduces waste generation by recycling, and resolutely continues to significantly reduce its impact on the environment by making its contribution against climate change.
The information whose content and recording method is determined according to the laws and regulations cannot be recorded in a manner that is contrary to the determined procedures, incomplete, inaccurate or that may cause a similar impression, and no instructions can be given in this direction.
Employees will protect personal information that must be protected by law, and intellectual property rights, other assets and rights belonging to the company or in use by the company, will not transfer them, use them personally or allow them to be used.
Employees may not use information that has not yet been disclosed to the public or disclose it illegally in order to engage in insider trading activities specified in the Capital Market Law and related regulations or to provide benefits to third parties.
Its employees cannot be in any business or activity that would cause a conflict of interest with the Verusa Group. In such a situation, it should be exposed to the top manager immediately.
Employees shall always comply with the laws and the laws and international regulations within the scope of human rights, and ethical principles. They shall perform their duties within the framework of ethical principles, basic moral and human values and act in accordance with the rules. In case of non-compliance, sanctions and disciplinary action leading to termination of employment may be applied.
The employees shall notify their seniot or the Audit Commiitte in case that they find out or suspect a violation of the Policy.
Disclosure of the notification made by the employees to third parties is prohibited.
Employees who do not agree to behave against the ethical rules and who report non-compliance in good faith will not be retaliated or allowed to suffer any damage.
It expects from its suppliers not to discriminate in any way according to race, religion, gender, nationality, age, social status, physical structure, recruitment, remuneration, educational opportunity, promotion and retirement practices, political opinion or marital status, to provide equal opportunities to their employees, to act in accordance with local, national and international regulations regarding discrimination and harassment.
It expects from its suppliers to employ workers according to age limit specified in the regulations, act according to regulations regarding prevention of forced labor and abuse, working hours, overtime and wages, social benefits and legal holiday rights, providing a healthy and safe work environment and according to principles that respect human rights, regarding work ethic and fight against corruption.
Informing all employees about the Policy, providing training, having them giving the necessary importance to these rules and showing the necessary effort and leadership to ensure compliance is among the primary duties and responsibilities of middle and senior managers working in the Verusa Group, Corporate Governance and Audit Committees are authorized for the implementation and follow-up of the Policy.

The Corporate Governance and Audit Committee reviews the Policy together within the framework of the way of doing business, relevant regulations, developments and changes in the risk perception, and submits the necessary changes to the approval of the Board of Directors when necessary or at least once a year.

The term “employees” in the policy includes employees and managers at all levels.

The principles, rules and practices in the policy are regulated and supported by our Board of Directors.