Our Equal Opportunity Policy

As Turk Tuborg, we are aware that our employees are the most important assets of our company and we aim to create a reliable working environment that is respectful to human rights by not allowing discrimination. 

Equal opportunity is one of the basic principles of Turk Tuborg. In parallel with this principle, discrimination based on race, religion, language, gender is not allowed. On the contrary, we are proud of our diversity and we believe that our differences are the opportunity to provide a competitive advantage for Turk Tuborg. Equal opportunity principle is not only the basis for our recruitment process, but also for all HR practices such as promotion, transfer, termination of employment, annual leave, compensation and training.

Having obtained the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGIDER)’s Equal Opportunities Certificate, Turk Tuborg, particularly being noticeable with the higher rate of female employee in its top management, now increased the importance and support it gives to women in business life.

Turk Tuborg, aimed at setting aside more positions for women in the business life, offers equal opportunities to female and male employees in recruitment and promotion and makes efforts to detect and solve problems suffered by the women in the business life.

Turk Tuborg, with its female members in half in the executive board and with two female members in the board of directors, has recruited female managers at its marketing, legal, IT and human resources departments.

Turk Tuborg was awarded with the grand prize once and runner-up prize twice for these higher rates in the category of “Board of Directors Strengthened with Women Members” in the research carried out each year by Sabanci University.

Having considerable proud of getting these awards and of pleasure for KAGIDER’s Equal Opportunities Certificate, Turk Tuborg’s CEO Damla Birol stated: “We, as Turk Tuborg, are aware of that women are of great importance for the business life and believe that we would be stronger by supporting the women. Therefore, we equally treat women in recruitment and promotion; we offer ease for our female employees, having the pleasure of becoming mothers, in those periods and we also encourage the women to take more roles in management and to contribute with their new points of view. We make effort for creating equal opportunities rather than offering difficulties.”

Kagider’s Equal Opportunities Model Certificate, developed and implemented by means of the World Bank’s subventions, is granted to corporations, offering the women equal opportunities, approach and conditions with men in recruitment, election, education, performance assessment and promotion as well as career supporting practices, feedback and evaluation of complaints. In Turkey, only 21 corporations have already Kagider’s Equal Opportunities Certificate.