Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS (TKC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. I'm Polina, your chorus call operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the Turkcells conference call and live webcast to present and discuss the Turkcells first quarter 2026 financial results. All participants will be in a listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. If anyone needs assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star and zero on your telephone. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mrs. Özlem Yardem, Investor Relations and Corporate Finance Director. Mrs. Yardem, you may now proceed. Thank you, Polina. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Turkcell's 2026 First Quarter Earnings Call. On the call today, we have our CEO, Ali Taha Koç, and CFO, Kamil Kalyon. They will provide an overview of our operational and financial results for the quarter, followed by a Q&A session. Before we begin, I would like to kindly remind you to review our Safe Harbor Statement, which is available at the end of our presentation. With that, I will now turn the call over to Mr. Ali Taha. Thank you very much, Özlem. Good afternoon, everyone. We delivered a phenomenal quarter. We successfully launched 5G nationwide on March 31st. This landmark launch reinforced our clear leadership in mobile. We executed with precision at every stage of the 5G deployment, from spectrum acquisition to network rollout, from network rollout to marketing. In all aspects, Truxel is the leader. Our spectrum acquisition was both strategic and efficient. We secured 25% more capacity than our closest competitor, creating a network of superior scale and positioning it for long-term demand. Our launch was supported by a powerful go-to-...