Bekir Kemal Ataman's Involvement in Disaster Preparedness


The earthquakes in August and November 1999 changed the lives of many people in Turkey. Especially seeing the inability of the state in helping people made quite a few people think twice. So I decided to learn all that I can, so that I can be of more help the next time (God forbid) a disaster strikes. Following is a list of what I have learnt with this purpose.

Emergency Medical Technician Training (November 1999-May 2000)
At Marmara University, Office of Health, Culture and Sports

Search and Rescue Training - April 2000
At Civil Defence Organization of Turkey HAM Radio (CEPT Class 2 License) - May 2000; (CEPT Class 1 License) - November 2004
Training at Turkish Radio Amateurs Club (TRAC) and licence certification by Telecommunications Institution (TK) of Turkey. Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training - September 2001
(Based on FEMA's CERT training.) 80 hours; at Search and Rescue Society (AKUT). Seafarers' Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW '95) (September 2002)
At Seafarers Union of Turkey Advanced Fire Fighting Techniques (January 2003)
At Istanbul Technical University's Maritime Faculty
Including fire supression practice.

Fire suppression Techniques (September 2003)
At Istanbul Fire Brigade's Fire Fighting School

Fundamentals of Emergency Management Training (March 2004)
5 days; at Istanbul Technical University, Centre of Excellence for Disaster Management [Based on FEMA's training programmes] Needless to say I am heavily involved with the fire brigade as a volunteer fireman, with the civil defence organisation as an emergency radio communications operator, as well as several other organisations in Turkey as a search and rescue volunteer. Since 2007, I am heavily involved in emergency communications. I have organized and taught, together with my friends, more than 2200 people on the topic. You can find a list of our activities in this area at http://www.tcswat.org/activities/EmComm/index.html


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This page was created in March 2001 and was last modified on 27/September/2007 by Bekir Kemal Ataman, webadmin '*at*' archimac.org. It is located at http://www.archimac.org/BKANV/Disaster.html.