Prizes awarded in our essay competition

Our Friday gathering on 25 March 2016 brought together dozens of guests and very distinguished speakers. President Mehmet Aydoğan welcomed every guest one by one and listened to their suggestions and requests; saying he would do the necessary work and everything he could to help, he then joined all the guests at the conversation table. After our President’s speech, we heard a fine talk on morality and ethics by Prof. Mehmet Türkeri of Dokuz Eylül University, followed by the speech and views of Nuri Taşdelen, Head of the Social Security Institution’s İzmir Centre.

After our guests’ talks, prizes were presented to the contestants our committee judged worthy of an award from among hundreds of essays in a competition that had run for a long time. Hakan Keleş, who came first, and İbrahim Naycı, who came second, received their prizes, laptop computers, from our President and from participants Prof. Dr Mehmet Türkeri and SGK İzmir Centre Head Nuri Taşdelen, while the third and fourth prizes, tablet computers, were presented to Sadi Günay and Enis Karatepe. In a speech of thanks and appreciation, our President congratulated the winners one by one and wished them joy in using their prizes.