IMPORTANT NOTICE THIS OFFERING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO INVESTORS WHO ARE EITHER (1) QIBS (AS DEFINED BELOW) UNDER RULE 144A OR (2) NON-U.S. PERSONS (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S) OUTSIDE OF THE U.S. IMPORTANT: You must read the following before continuing. The following applies to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum following this page, and you are therefore advised to read this carefully before reading, accessing or making any other use of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum. In accessing the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions, including any modifications to them any time you receive any information from the Bank as a result of such access. NOTHING IN THIS ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION CONSTITUTES AN OFFER OF SECURITIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANY JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DO SO. 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OFFERING MEMORANDUM Yapı ve Kredi Bankası A.S¸. a Turkish banking institution organised as a joint stock company U.S.$1,000,000,000 5.500% Subordinated Notes due 2022 Issue Price: 100% Yapı ve Kredi Bankası A.S¸., a Turkish banking institution organised as a joint stock company (the “Bank”orthe“Issuer”), is issuing U.S.$1,000,000,000 5.500% Subordinated Notes due 2022 (the “Notes”). The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the securities or “blue sky” laws of any state of the United States of America (“United States” or “U.S.”), the Republic of Turkey (“Turkey”), the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction, and are being offered: (a) for sale (the “U.S. Offering”) in the United States to qualified institutional buyers (each a “QIB”) as defined in, and in reliance upon, Rule 144A (“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act and (b) for sale (the “International Offering” and, with the U.S. Offering, the “Offering”) outside the United States to persons other than U.S. persons in reliance upon Regulation S (“Regulation S”) under the Securities Act. For a description of certain restrictions on sale and transfer of the Notes, see “Subscription and Sale”and“Transfer Restrictions”. INVESTING IN THE NOTES INVOLVES RISKS. PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS SHOULD CONSIDER THE FACTORS SET FORTH UNDER “RISK FACTORS” BEGINNING ON PAGE 11 OF THIS OFFERING MEMORANDUM. As described further herein, the net proceeds of the Notes will be used by the Issuer for the Issuer’s general corporate purposes. Interest on the Notes will be paid in arrear on 6 June and 6 December in each year, provided that if any such date is not a Business Day (as defined herein), then such payment will be made on the next Business Day. Principal of the Notes is scheduled to be paid on 6 December 2022, but may be paid earlier under certain circumstances as further described herein. Application has been made to the Financial Services Authority in its capacity as competent authority under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “UK Listing Authority”) for the Notes to be admitted to listing on the official list of the UK Listing Authority (the “Official List”) and to the London Stock Exchange plc (the “London Stock Exchange”) for such Notes to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market (the “Market”). References in this Offering Memorandum (the “Offering Memorandum”) to the Notes being “listed” (and all related references) shall mean that the Notes have been admitted to the Official List and have been admitted to trading on the Market. The Market is a regulated market for the purposes of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments. Application has been made to the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (the “CMB”) in its capacity as competent authority under Law No. 2499 of the Republic of Turkey relating to capital markets (the “Capital Markets Law”) for the registration of the Notes with the CMB and the issuance of the Notes by the Bank outside Turkey. The Notes cannot be sold outside Turkey before they are registered with the CMB. The issuance of the Notes was approved by the CMB on 30 October 2012 and the registration certificate relating to the Notes is expected to be obtained from the CMB on or about the Closing Date (as defined below). The Notes are expected on issue to be rated BBB- by Fitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”) and Ba1 by Moody’s Investors Service Limited (“Moody’s”). As of the date of this Offering Memorandum, Turkey was rated BBB- by Fitch, Ba2 by Moody’s and BB by Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services France SAS (“Standard & Poor’s”), together with Fitch and Moody’s the “Rating Agencies”).