Audit Committee

Enver İskurt was born in 1966 in Trabzon. Iskurt graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Construction. Iskurt, who started working as a Survey Team Engineer at the General Directorate of Highways, Van 11th Regional Directorate in 1990, worked as a control engineer, control chief and chief engineer respectively in the regions. After successfully carrying out his duties as the Director of the Highways Bridges Branch and the Head of the Highways Department (Head of the Department of Operations) in the General Directorate of Highways, Enver İskurt assumed the position of the Head of the Inspection Board. He is carrying out the Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure duty. He is married and father of 2.

He was born in Uşak in 1958 and graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Letters in 1979. He received his PhD in 1983, got his title of Associate Professor in 1993 and Professor in 1998 in the field of Divan literature.

He wrote articles, essays, stories, and newspaper columns inspired by history to help the general public understand and appreciate Ottoman poetry.

The poetry seminars and conferences he organizes attracted large audiences.

In addition to his academic career, he also produced works related to cultural life. His novels, inspired by history, sold hundreds of thousands of copies and were translated into several languages. He was honoured with a trademark award by the Turkish Patent Institute for his contributions to Turkish culture, and his name was registered.

He worked at the Naval Forces Command between 1982 and 1996. He was a member of the editorial board of İSAM between 1996 and 2024. In 2004, he served as the Director of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Culture Department.

Between 2004 and 2010, he served as a cultural advisor to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, between 2006 and 2012, he was a member of the City Theatres Repertoire Committee and the State Theatres Literary Committee, and between 2008 and 2010, he was a member of the Istanbul European Capital of Culture Management Board. He was a faculty member at Uşak University between 2009 and 2012, a member of the Atatürk Culture, Language and History Higher Council Management Board between 2013 and 2017, a senior advisor to the Prime Minister between 2015 and 2018, and an advisor to the Ministry of Culture between 2018 and 2019. He has been a faculty member at Istanbul Culture University since 1997 and continues to serve in this capacity. Since 2018, he has been the Deputy Chair of the Presidential Council for Culture and Arts Policies.

In addition to academic books, he also wrote cultural and literary books.

Pala has written 104 books in the fields of dictionaries, articles, essays, novels, short stories, biographies, anthologies, memoirs and theatre.

His books such as Encyclopedic Dictionary of Divan (Ottoman) Poetry (1989), Two Dirhams One Core (İki Dirhem Bir Çekirdek) (1996), Exceptional Beauties (Müstesna Güzeller) (1995), Death in Babylon, Love in Istanbul (Babil'de Ölüm, İstanbul'da Aşk) (2003), Grief Drop (Katre-i Matem) (2009), Shah & Sultan (Şah ve Sultan) (2010), Flame - A Yunus Novel (Od- Bir Yunus Romanı) (2011), AbumRabum, (2017) Surname (2022), Love Story (Aşk Hikayesi) (2023) and Azdahak (2025) have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. His book "Between Two Coups" (İki Darbe Arasında) (2010), in which he wrote his memoirs of military service, is deemed as the sociological history of a period. Prof. Dr. İskender Pala considers his book "Forty Songs of the Nightingale" (Bülbülün Kırk Şarkısı) as the best effort of his life.

İskender Pala is married and has three children.

Betül Altınsoy was born in Ankara in 1984. She completed her secondary education at Ankara Tevfik İleri Anatolian Imam Hatip High School. She completed her undergraduate studies in Marmara University Faculty of Law between 2002 and 2006. She subsequently obtained her LL.M. degree in Public Law from Marmara University between 2007 and 2008.

Altınsoy began her legal career as a trainee lawyer at Şanlı Law Firm (2007–2008), where she worked in the fields of corporate law, intellectual and industrial property law, competition law, and real estate law. She worked as a lawyer at Özkan Law Firm between 2009 and 2010, providing legal advisory services to both individual and corporate clients in the areas of commercial law, contract law, labor and social security law, and intellectual property law.

Since 2010, she has been serving as the founding and managing attorney of Altınsoy Law Firm. She provides legal consultancy to real and legal persons, particularly in mining and energy law. She works in the areas of litigation management, contract structuring and strategic legal planning. Between 2016 and 2018, she also collaborated with Karakaya Law Firm as a legal advisor and business partner.

In addition to her professional career, Altınsoy has actively participated in civil society organizations, working on projects related to human rights, refugee rights, and women’s rights.

She served as a Member of the Central Disciplinary Board of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) between 2018–2021 and 2021–2023. Between 2023 and 2025, she served as a Member of the Central Decision and Executive Board and concurrently as Deputy Secretary General.

She is fluent in English and has an intermediate level of Arabic.