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Turkish Footballers in European Football Teams
The following is the list of Turkish Footballers in European Football Teams for those students who are interested.

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in NETHERLANDS NATIONAL FOOTBAL TEAM
Uğur Yıldırım A
Gabriel Özcan U-19
Oğuzhan Türk U-19
Ömer Özçelik U-17
Ercan Sancar U-16
Serhan Candan U-17
Atam Koroğlu U-16
Ferdi Sönmez U-16
Mustafa Nalbantoğlu U-21

PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
-NAC Breda (Aykut Demir)
Feyenoord(Nuri Şahin)
-NEC Nijmegen (Muslu Nalbantoğlu)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in GERMAN NATIONAL TEAM
Erdal Kılıçaslan U-19
Mehmet Akgün U-19
Serdar Taşcı U 19
Daniyel Çimen U - 19
Eren Şen U-19
Volkan Altın U-17
Selim Teber U-21
Abdül Yılmaz U-17
Volkan Kiral U-20
Mahmut Yılmaz U-21
Malik Fathi A
Bulut Aksoy U-18
Timur Özgüç U-18
Faruk Gül U-17
Serkan Durmaz U-19
Ersan Tekkan U-19
Mesut Özil -U-21

PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
-Bayern Münih (Hamit Altıntop) -Schalke 04 (Halil Altıntop) -Stuttgar t (Yıldıray Baştürk) -SC Freiburg (Ali Güneş) -Wolfsburg (Emre Öztürk) -Ümut Özat (Köln)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in DENMARK NATIONAL TEAM
Muhammed Akıncı U-21
Olcay Senoğlu U-20
Musa Turan U-16
Saban Özdoğan U-16
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
(None)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in SWITZERLAND NATIONAL TEAM
Murat Yakın A
Hakan Yakın A
Yaşar Ursal U-18
Ferhat Çökmüş U-20
Diren Aydemir U-20
Erhan Koçak U-18
Samet Gündüz U-18
Murat Ural U-18
Gökhan İnler U-21
İlker Tugal U-19
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
(None)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in BELGIUM NATIONAL TEAM
Önder Turacı U-21
Onur Kaya U-17
Sinan Bolat U-16
Lokman Atasever U-19
Yusuf Nalıncı U-17
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
Serhat Akın - Anderlecht

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in SWISS NATIONAL TEAM
Baykal Kulaksızoğlu U-19
Hasan Çetinkaya U-21
Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu U-21
Gabriel Özkan U-19
Erkan Zengin U-21
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
(None)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in NORWAY NATIONAL TEAM
Azar Karadaş A

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in AUSTRIA NATIONAL TEAM
Ramazan Özcan A
Muhammed Akagündüz A
Yüksel Sarıyer A
Volkan Kahraman A
Salih Alıc U-19
Cemil Tosun U-19
Harun Erbek U-19
Veli Kavlak U-19
İhsan Poyraz U-19
Metin Batır U-18
Sabri Vural U-17
Turgay Bahadır U-17
Kemal Duran U-17
Cem Tosun U-17
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
(None)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in GREEK TEAM
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
-Xanthi (Deniz Baykara)
Olympiakos (Erol Bulut)
Larisa (Tümer Metin)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in SPAIN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
-Villarreal (Nihat Kahveci)
-Huelva (Ersen Martin)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in BRITISH NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
Blackburn (Tugay Kerimoğlu)
Middlesbrough (Tuncay Şanlı)
Newcastle (Emre Belözoğlu)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in RUSSIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYING FOR TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
CSKA Moskova (Caner Erkin)
Zenit (Fatih Tekke)
Rubin Kazan (Gökdeniz Karadeniz- Hasan Kabze)

TURKISH FOOTBALLERS in FINLAND NATIONAL TEAM
Uğur Menekşe U-19

What is Washington Accord?

Washington Accord is an international aggreement signed in 1989 by different international organizations responsible for accrediting engineering degree programmes. Engineering Accreditation Council of Malaysia (EAC) is one of the Organisations holding provisional status which means as having qualification for accreditation or recognition procedures that are potentially suitable for the purposes of the Accord. EAC aims at further developing those procedures with the goal of achieving signatory status in due course; qualifications accredited or recognised by organisations holding provisional status are not necessarily recognised by the signatories.
The Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting engineering degree programs. It recognizes the substantial equivalency of programs accredited by those bodies and recommends that graduates of programs accredited by any of the signatory bodies be recognized by the other bodies as having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering.

Introduction to Accords for Accreditation of Engineering Programmes
There are six international agreements governing mutual recognition of engineering qualifications and professional competence. In each of these agreements countries/economies who wish to participate may apply for membership, and if accepted become members or signatories to the agreement. In broad principle, each country/economy must meet its own costs, and the body making application must verify that it is the appropriate representative body for that country/economy.

Agreements covering tertiary qualifications in engineering
There are three agreements covering mutual recognition in respect of tertiary-level qualifications in engineering:

The Washington Accord signed in 1989 was the first - it recognises substantial equivalence in the accreditation of qualifications in professional engineering, normally of four years duration.

The Sydney Accord commenced in 2001 and recognises substantial equivalence in the accreditation of qualifications in engineering technology, normally of three years duration.

The Dublin Accord is an agreement for substantial equivalence in the accreditation of tertiary qualifications in technician engineering, normally of two years duration. It commenced in 2002.

Signatories of Washington Accord
Signatories have full rights of participation in the Accord; qualifications accredited or recognised by other signatories are recognised by each signatory as being substantially equivalent to accredited or recognised qualifications within its own jurisdiction.

* Australia - Represented by Engineers Australia (1989)
* Canada - Represented by Engineers Canada (1989)
* Chinese Taipei - Represented by Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (2007)
* Hong Kong China - Represented by The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (1995)
* Ireland - Represented by Engineers Ireland (1989)
* Japan - Represented by Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (2005)
* Korea - Represented by Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (2007)
* New Zealand - Represented by Institution of Professional Engineers NZ (1989)
* Singapore - Represented by Institution of Engineers Singapore (2006)
* South Africa - Represented by Engineering Council of South Africa (1999)
* United Kingdom - Represented by Engineering Council UK (1989)
* United States - Represented by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (1989)

Organisations holding provisional status have been identified as having qualification accreditation or recognition procedures that are potentially suitable for the purposes of the Accord; those organisations are further developing those procedures with the goal of achieving signatory status in due course; qualifications accredited or recognised by organisations holding provisional status are not recognised by the signatories

* Germany - Represented by German Accreditation Agency for Study Programs in Engineering and Informatics
* India - Represented by National Board of Accreditation of All India Council for Technical Education
* Malaysia - Represented by Board of Engineers - Malaysia Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC)
* Russia - Represented by Russian Association for Engineering Education
* Sri Lanka - Represented by Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka

Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC)

Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) is a delegated body by the Board Engineers Malaysia as the only recognized accrediting body for engineering degree programmes offered in Malaysia. Members of EAc comprise five (5) stakeholders namely, the Board Of Engineers (BEM) [6 representatives], the Institution Of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) [6 representatives], Employers [3 representatives], National Accreditation Board (LAN) [1 representative] and the Public Service Department (JPA) [1 representative].

EAC has provided leadership and quality assurance in engineering higher education since 2000. EAC accredits programmes at 25 institutions of higher learning (IHL) .

You can go to official EAC website from here.

EAC Vision and Mission
EAC Vision, Mission and Strategic plan are given below.
EAC VISION

• Recognised accreditation body at international level that ensures the standard of engineering programmes in Malaysia is at par with other international programmes.

EAC MISSION

• Accredit undergraduate engineering in Malaysia.
• Recognise overseas engineering qualification.

THE EAC STRATEGIC PLAN

1. To develop Accreditation Management System (AMS).
2. To achieve international recognition through Washington Accord (WA) / European National Accreditation Engineering (ENAEE) membership & bilateral / regional recognition.
3. Promote networking with top management of Institution of Higher Learning (IHL).
4. Promote Outcome-based education (OBE) culture in engineering education.
5. To be self-financing.

What is EAC Accreditation?

Taken from ENGINEERING ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (EAC) Web site

• myoorubrics.com/EAC_WEBSITE/index.php

• http://eacaccreditation.blogspot.com EAC Accreditation

Constitutional Court Decision for AKP

The Constitutional Court Decision for AKP came yesterday.
The Constitutional Court unanimously decided to hear the case against the AK Party on charges that the ruling party of Turkey has been involved in anti-secularist activities and has followed a fundamentalist agenda. The party risks closure and its senior members including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan risk a five year political ban.

Some people in Turkey are trying to portray the case as a normal judicial act which may or may not result in the closure of the party. They say the legal system is now at work and we have to trust the independence of the judiciary.

We beg to differ especially after seeing the attitudes of some supreme court judges who seem to be bent on closing down the party.

These are the very same judges who last year in May decided to annul the elections of the new president claiming the parliament needed a quorum of 367 deputies to even open the sessions to elect the head of state whereas this was later regarded as a judicial scandal.

Now the same judges all appointed by the former president Ahmet Necdet Sezer on Monday decided that while the Supreme Court should hear the case against the AK Party President Abdullah Gul should also be brought to trial for his alleged anti-secular activities when he was foreign minister in the AK Party government. Four judges rejected to bring Gul to trial saying the president can only be trial for treason. But the seven judges seem determined to go put of their way and eventually vote to closedown the AK Party. So the months ahead may well be a mere formality for these judges.

He only option left for the AK Party is to change the rules at his late stage and make it impossible for the court to closedown the party. So they too have to bend and twist the rules like others are doing to closedown AK Party.

Democracy is taking a heavy beating as some people seem set to erase the ruling party of Turkey from the map and AK party trying to survive.