TurkPower Signs Agreement to Acquire Coal Field With 100mm Tonnes of Coal and $20mm Worth of Coking Coal Inventory

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Dec 21, 2011) - TurkPower Corporation (OTCBB: TRKP) (the "Company") announced today that it is has entered a binding purchase agreement to purchase the Zavyalov Square of the Toguchino Coal Field ("Zavyalov") located in the Toguchino District of Novosibirsk Region, Russia. Zavyalov decrees over 100 million tonnes of forecasted extractable quantity of coal. As part of the transaction the Company receives inventory of coking coal worth in excess of $20 million, which the Company expects to ship in the first quarter of 2012.

Coal at Zavyalov is typically humic with relative low moisture (max 6%), volatile matters (avg. 20%) and GCV of 7990 - 8680 Kcal/kg. The grades of coal are fit for processing into hard coking coal and metallurgical coke, which are both in perpetual short supply and which trade at a high premiums to "regular" coal.

The Company will inform about its revised business plan and forecasts, its planned name change as well as management and board of directors additions in the coming weeks.

About TurkPower Corporation

TurkPower Corporation (OTCBB: TRKP) is an American junior mining company in the process of acquiring 100% ownership of the Zavyalov Square of the Toguchino Coal Field, a privately owned coal mine in Russia. TurkPower also owns a minority interest in an operational iron ore mine in Turkey. TurkPower is currently in the process of evaluating its options and defining its strategy regarding its asset in Turkey, and intends to inform its investors in the near future.

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