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Mehmet Ferruh AKALIN

Date of birth: 9.12.1960

Passport No or ID: 13571379758

Nationality: Turkish

Gender: male

Mehmet Ferruh Akalın is Vice-President (Assistant General Manager) and member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO). He is the head of TPAO's Exploration Department.

In his capacity as TPAO Vice-President and head of its Exploration Department, Mehmet Ferruh Akalın is responsible for planning, directing and implementing TPAO's offshore hydrocarbon exploration activities. Those include TPAO's drilling activities, which have not been authorised by the Republic of Cyprus, as set out below.

Those unauthorised drilling activities were carried out by:

(a) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in the territorial sea of the Republic of Cyprus between July and September 2019;

(b) the TPAO drilling vessel Yavuz in an area of the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus notified by it to the United Nations and delimited in an agreement with Egypt, between October 2019 and January 2020;