REGULATION OF ASSOCIATION AND TRAINING BECOMES A PROFESSION

         After the Antalya seminar, Ulvi Yenal and Orhan Seref Apak wanted to see me. First I visited Mr. Yenal. He congratulated us, gat information about seminar and asked me how we afford expenses. He decided to give 20000 lira to our association.

Very same day I paid my second visit to Orhan Seref Apak. I meet Ziya Ozan in the corridor. He was the head of Financial Issues. He said to me: "Mr. Apak wants you to take to Federation". When I entered room, Mr. Apak said me: "You, as association, make what we have to do, Lets take you to Federation, come and found department of education". I sais that Icould not do all these without Society(cemiyet), he responded me to work together, we got the deal. But we had a more important will. Training hadn't been a profession yet. To achieve this there should be a regulation and training should be a profession. Mr. Apak said us to prepare a regulation to be presented to general head office. I spokewith Ibrahim Onuk.he spoke to Mr. Apak and prepared a regulation draft in a week. Mr. Apak resisted on primary school graduation but finally we manage to put intermediate school obligation. But in consulting council, the regulation approved with obligation of primary school, we were deceived. But it was still a success, this could be corrected later. As a matter of fact this obligation changed to high school and university graduates had privileges. In 16 September 1969, our regulation had been published in official paper, and printed as a two-pages brochure. From then on, training becomes a profession. I began my post in education department of Federation in 2 January 1970. It was a small department. We have nothing as archive but an association and 11 technical books.

Our first association ball was in January 5th, the Minister of Youth and Sport, Ismet Sezgin and General Director Ulvi Yenal joined this ball. The facilities of Society had been aided by the foundation of department of education. We were planning the schedules, directing the courses all together with our friends. New friends graduated from the courses also joined to us. Federation was no more an obstacle for the association. To be frank, with all our difficulties, we also had chance to gain conditions to accomplish many things.