Turkey Handicapped Sports, Education and Assistance Foundation is a NGO established in 1999 by 41founder members in order to provide to the handicapped a habitable environment and to increase their life comfort.

The aim of TESYEV is to assist the 8,5 million handicapped  in Turkey to became part in the social life as happy and self-reliant individuals by creating access to education sources like the unhandicapped and joining sportive events.  TESYEV performed several activities in order to reach it’s goals. The basic need in the handicapped sports is the equipment. In order to overcome these difficulties TESVEY imported necessary equipment and distributed it to the clubs. Several courses, like computer programming and sportive events like national and international tournaments have been arranged by TESYEV.


The nunber of administrative members is increased from 41 to 113 and with about 300 volunteer members we have extended our activities nationwide. Our foundation  assisted the rehabilitation of several handicapped through sports, granted to many handicapped students from primary school level upto unversities bourses, and lending a hand to all handicapped in need.


If you are asking what you can do…
You can order garlands through TESYEV
You can grant bourses to successful handicapped students
You can grnat medical care such as operation, Orthesis, prothesis and rehabilitation to our handicappeds
You can handover wheeled chairs to our handicappeds in order to ease their at a certain level.
You can buy greeting cards specially produced for the use of TESYEV
You can buy the books “Kendimi Engelletmem” and “Futbol Basit Bir Oyun Değildir” the income has been donated to TESYEV by their authors.
You can donate you religious obligatory alms to TESYEV
You can participate in the sportive events we are organizing as volunteer member

ABOUT TURKEY HANDICAPPED SPORTS, EDUCATION AND ASISSTANCE

We hope to see you among us soon.

Yavuz Kocaömer
President


TESYEV ADMINISTRAVITE BOARD

CHAIRMAN
A. Yavuz Kocaömer

VICE-PRESIDENTS
Burak Sarıca & Hayati Babaoğlu 

MEMBERS
Rıza Engin Akış & Ömer Cenker Ilıcalı & K.Âli Kiremitcioğlu
Murat Aksu & Siren Ertan & Ümit Deniz Kurt

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
1.Acun Ilıcalı 
2.Ahmet Ağaoğlu
3.Ahmet Derya Bayer
4.Ahmet Doğan Arıkan
5.Ahmet Hüsnü Güreli
6.Ahmet Kibar
7.Ahmet Melih Aközden
8.Ahmet Yavuz Kocaömer
9.Ali Asker Koçak
10.Ali Bahadır
11.Ali Duran Karakaya
12.Ali Evren Doğru
13.Ali Kibar
14.Âli Kiremitçioğlu
15.Ali Naki İbrahimiye Dr
.16.Ali Özbudak
17.Asaf Avcı
18.Aslı Yaşaroğlu
19.Atıf Barbaros Talı
20.Ayhan Bermek
21.Ayşe Münire Ardalı Dr.
22.Ayşe Yeşim Gülçelik
23.Banu Kalpakçıoğlu Dr.
24.Behçet Kerem Ertan
25.Bekir Beşen
26.Bekir Yunus Uçar
27.Berrin Altınöz
28.Beyza Ağaoğlu
29.Bilgin Gökberk
30.Birgül Kılıç
31.Burak Sarıca
32.Burçak Küçükçalı
33.Çetin Aktürk
34.Çevik Bir Em. Org.
35.Demirhan Şerefhan
36.Diethard Hasan Busowietz
37.Doğan Özdemir
38.Ebru Kılıç Çerezci 
39.Engin Kanyar
40.Ersoy Yılmaz Diniz
41.Ertuğrul Bursa
42.Fatih Altaylı
43.Fikret Ercan
44.Fuat Çimen
45.Gerald Metroz
46.Gökhan Sarıca
47.Gürkan Sekmen
48.Hakan Çelik
49.Haluk Gergin
50.Hamit Nurtan Eraslan
51.Handan Yargan
52.Hasan Gocay
53.Hayati Babaoğlu
54.Hilmi Ayhan Ergin
55.Hülya Avşar
56.Hüseyin Akın Yılmaz
57.Hüseyin Aksu
58.Hüseyin Erdal Denizaslanı
59.İbrahim Cengiz Altaylı
60.İbrahim Gümüşdal
61.İbrahim Özçimen
62.İlhan Kılıç Em. Org.
63.Kemal Özcanlı
64.Kerim Altınok
65.Lütfi Aygüler
66.Mehmet Alp Tiryakioğlu
67.Mehmet Atalay
68.Mehmet Demir
69.Mehmet Emin Tınaz Prof.Dr
.70.Mehmet Fatih Kahraman
71.Mehmet Hasip Erol
72.Mehmet İbrahimiye
73.Mehmet Karasu
74.Mehmet Sinan Berksan
75.Meral Canlı
76.Metin Şentürk
77.Murat Aksu Av.
78.Murat Çelikkanat
79.Mustafa Ruşen Selçuk
80.Neşet Mahir Aydın
81.Nevin Ergun Prof. Dr.
82.Osman Evren Arıkan
83.Osman Zeki Aytaç
84.Ömer Cenker Ilıcalı
85.Pervin Köse
86.Renee Saban
87.Rıza Engin Akış
88.Saadettin Saran
89.Selçuk Alagöz
90.Selim Altınok
91.Selmin Özbudak
92.Sezai Bağbaşı
93.Sibel Fatma Çarmıklı
94.Sinan Kalpakçıoğlu
95.Siren Ertan
96.Süheyla Çebi Karahan
97.Süleyman Kaya Çilingiroğlu
98.Şansal Büyüka
99.Şeci Mehmet Sürel
100.Şefik Öztek
101.Şenes Erzik
102.Taner Tula
103.Tuna Durmaz
104.Uğur Aydın Batur
105.Ümit Deniz Kurt Av.
106.Veli Ergin İmre
107.Yaşar Aşcıoğlu
108.Yunus Akgül
109.Zahide Canan Kocaömer




Important activities organized for the handicapped with personal efforts of Mr. A. Yavuz Kocaömer for the first time in Turkiye

Turkiye Handicapped Sports Federation which was avtive untill the year  2000 was divided in to four different federations as a result of the  intervention of Mr. Yavuz Kocaömer  with the authirities. The Fereations formed are: Physical,  Optical, Aural and Mental Handicapped Federations.

According to the prize regulatin in force untill the year 2000 handicapped athlets  who have been successful  in European and world championships, were given only 25% of the prize o0f the unhandicapped athlets with the same level of success. As a result of Mr. A. Yavuz Kocaömer’s  articles and struggles with the authorities the regulation was changed, and handicapped athlets gained the rights as the unhandicapped.

Foundation of  the Turkish Palimpik Comitee preparation of the regulations in 2002.

Organizing “Sport training Seminars”  for  the  handicapped sports for the first time in Turkiye.

Foundation of Physical Handicapped Sports clubs and organizing the the aid of sportive equipments. (Today 18 Optical Handicapped Sports clubs are active in Turkiye, but in 1998 there was none)

Mr. Yavuz Kocaömer articles about “handicapped sports and current problems” are published in various  daily newspapers  (Posta, Milliyet)