Our Social Responsibility Principles

With this policy document, ATLAS Group emphasizes the importance and priority of our corporate social responsibility principles and the subject matter for our Group.

The ATLAS Group accepts acting in accordance with the social responsibility awareness constituting a part of its core values, such as modesty, respect to humans and being close to the public, as a fundamental and unchangeable element of its management approach. Within this framework, we expect all entities constituting the ATLAS Group to manage their activities within the framework of an understanding of economic, social and environmental responsibility and to keep developing the society on their agenda as a priority. We do not see the scope of our social responsibility approach limited with our business activities and their effects. We define our social responsibility approach and our priorities regarding this matter by taking into consideration what is best for the society and the environment. We pay special care to be pioneers in activities for the protection of democracy, human rights and the environment.

The principles we take as basis in our social responsibility applications are as follows:

1. As the ATLAS Group, in all geographies that we perform activities in, we pay special care to fulfilling our social and environmental responsibilities towards the society in a harmonious cooperation with our shareholders, employees, the public, civil society organizations and other stakeholders.

2. We believe that human resources is the most prominent element of sustainable growth. We ensure that our employees use their personal rights fully and correctly. We approach our employees with honesty and fairness and warrant them a non-discriminatory, safe and healthy work environment. We display the necessary effort for the personal development of our employees and protect the balance between their personal lives and their professional lives.

   We do not accept discrimination among the employees for reasons such as language, race, color, sex, political views, beliefs, religion, sect, age, physical disability and similar reasons.

   By creating a positive and harmonious work environment that supports cooperation and preventing conflicts, we ensure that people of different beliefs, thoughts and opinions work harmoniously.

   We apply healthy life programs to support the “protection of our employees’ health”, which is the most important factor for our employees to maintain quality and successful lives.

   As the ATLAS Group, we believe that all our employees have the right to work in a healthy and safe environment under work conditions that are compliant with human dignity. Our employees are our most valuable asset and ensuring and protecting the safety of our employees is our most important business goal.

3. We manage any and all environmental effects that may arise from any of our activities with an awareness of responsibility. All our companies are responsible to determine and apply the improvement and development works that will minimize the environmental effects of their activities at a level that is compliant with their fields of activity.

   We expect our companies to apply the best environmental solutions beyond legal liabilities and to support all initiatives that will help the development and wide spreading of environmentally friendly technologies and will increase the awareness concerning the environment.

4. As the ATLAS Group, we display efforts for the development of our society within the framework of the corporate social responsibility principle. We support our employees to volunteer for appropriate social activities that they will take part in with social responsibility awareness.

5. We pay special care to develop approaches and to implement such to ensure that all our business partners, act in accordance with the ATLAS Group standards in the area of social responsibility.

6. We act with sensitivity towards the traditions and culture of Turkey and the countries that we operate in and act in compliance with all legal regulations.

   All principles in this policy document are implemented with the necessary arrangements and the level of the applications are audited by the concerning units. We take the success that the companies display in social responsibility applications as an important criterion in the evaluation of the company performances.

   Throughout ATLAS, first our Chairman of the Board Cagatay Aytekin and then all our managers and employees are responsible for the corporate social responsibility applications.