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Leading Turkish mobile operating network Turkcell has nearly 70 million mobile subscribers in nine countries, with around 1.5 million in Turkey. The legal team, led by executive vice president for legal and regulation, Serhat Demir, has been involved in a number of high profile deals for the company in recent years. Among these deals, standouts have included Turkcell’s successful 2016 bid to obtain the Turkish broadcast rights for English football’s Premier League, its agreement to secure Uson (Unified Self-Organizing-Networks) technology from P.I. Works, helping Turkcell to boost its network performance, increase operational efficiency and optimise capacity of its existing infrastructure. The team has also helped Turkcell move into frontier markets and will be involved in negotiations with Iranian companies in the coming months, including a deal to create a Persian Gulf connection line between Iran and Turkey.