Who owns BiP?
BiP is owned by Turkcell (Turkey, NYSE: TKC).[1]
Evidence: Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇷 Turkey, Istanbul
- Origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Email & messaging
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: TKC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About BiP
BiP is the instant-messaging and calling app that Turkcell develops with its in-house application teams. Its 20-F describes it as a free platform with users in 192 countries, offering messaging, HD voice and video calls, disappearing messages, automated translation in more than 100 languages, money transfer, a Channels section, a 24-hour Status feature and an emergency button that alerts chosen contacts with the user's location.
What Turkcell's annual report says about BiP
Sentences about BiP from Turkcell's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In 2025, we had 4.4 million standalone paid users. - BiP is a free, reliable, friendly, and solution-oriented platform that connects all of its users in 192 different countries.
BiP aims to meet all communication needs of its users with fast and secure instant messaging, HD voice and video calls.
BiP differentiates itself with advanced features like Discover services for corporate and personal use, and a Channels section for audience engagement.
How often Turkcell names BiP in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of BiP
Where BiP sits in Turkcell
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Turkcell
Turkcell controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in email & messaging, and who owns them
The 18 brands in email & messaging on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Snap, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Messenger | Meta | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Firefox Relay | Mozilla | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bitmoji | Snap | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Mail.ru Email | VK | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Gmail | Alphabet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Yahoo Mail | Apollo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| KakaoTalk | Kakao | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| LINE | LY Corporation | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Turkcell
Turkcell is a publicly listed company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1993. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: TKC.
Turkcell is a Turkish joint stock company incorporated in 1993 that began operating in 1994 as the country's first GSM operator. It has grown from mobile telephony into fixed broadband, digital services, payments and consumer finance, and files a Form 20-F with the SEC; its shares trade on Borsa Istanbul and its ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange. Its own filing lists the consumer apps below as services it develops in house, and notes that it sold its Ukrainian operations, including lifecell, in 2024.
🇹🇷 BiP and other Turkish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 89 brands that began in Turkey. 11 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; BiP is not one of them.
- Hepsiburada — Kaspi.kz 🇰🇿
- Martı — Marti 🇹🇷
- Migros Sanal Market — Migros 🇹🇷
- Trendyol — Alibaba 🇭🇰
- Yemeksepeti — Delivery Hero 🇩🇪
- AJet — Turkish Airlines 🇹🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of BiP?
The parent company of BiP is Turkcell, a publicly listed company headquartered in Turkey.
Is BiP Turkish?
Yes. BiP originated in Turkey and its owner, Turkcell, is also headquartered in Turkey.
Is BiP still owned by Turkcell?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, BiP is still owned by Turkcell. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 April 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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