To my esteemed friends,

THE LIFE IS THE INTENT.

When I was born in the Ayvacık district of Samsun, my dreams began to mature my intentions. When we founded the METRO road transport company, we believed that everything was for the happiness of the people and we considered it a sacred duty to serve our beautiful nation with all our might, which kept this ancient civilization alive.

Our intention is to be able to exist somewhere in the life adventure of each individual member of our honorable nation who has managed to live in these sacred lands for a thousand years, to touch their dreams, and to improve their living conditions. Our goal is to create trust and loyalty to every person we touch with our domestic and rooted existence.

We touched more people in each of our services and found that we provided more convenience in their lives, shared more happiness. This made me think of being present at every stage of our people's life. We aimed to be in hearts and minds while walking on the road, going from one place to another, drinking tea, eating. While delivering our guests to their loved ones, we aimed to make our treats with our own hands and to be able to enter into the heart of each guest with our love.

Every day we believe in ourselves more than the previous day, and we continue to innovate for you. We aimed to provide more and more work and value to our nation with the new employment power we have created with Metross food within our Metro Holding, and to produce the best and most delicious cake with our love and excitement for our business and nation. Today, METRO has become a big family with our 10.000 employees, domestic and foreign users and consumers together with our affiliates and business partners. We share the pride and happiness of this and the pleasure of being a part of the Great Turkish Nation together.

I live my life to serve my companies and our nation, for this reason, as a part of our philosophy, "THE LIFE IS THE INTENT", I have achieved the happiness of handing over the METRO HOLDING management to the youth, which is on the way to institutionalization. I trust them, I believe that they will carry METRO to better days with their dreams, creative thoughts and work, and I wish them success.

I present my endless gratitude, love and respect to everyone who brought METRO to these beautiful days and to you.

Galip ÖZTÜRK Founding Honorary President of Metro Holding