Time to resign for Mr. Boris KUTIN!
The Turkish Chess Federation (TCF) has tried to show a good management style in the last 7 years. No need to explain what has happened in Turkey for chess as, I believe everybody knows. As a part of this development, we always tried to give the best service to FIDE and the European Chess Union (ECU). We were always candidate for any kind of event whether it was profitable or non-profitable.
To exemplify this, I have to mention that in Turkey we have organized the World Juniors Championships 2005, World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad (1998, 2003, 2006), FIDE Presidential Board (1999, 2007), World Chess Olympiad 2000.
Also for Europe, we have organized; 2002 European Club Cup for women, 2004 European Club Cup, 2007 European Club Cup, 2003 European Individual Chess Championships, 2004 European Youth Championships, 2004 European Individual Chess Championships, 2006 European Individual Chess Championships, and two times the ECU Board meeting.
I can assure everyone that a large number of these events were organized by the TCF simply as a form of assistance to FIDE or the ECU.
Only one more example, what we do for chess in Turkey:
By starting next month, Istanbul Great Municipality will distribute 1 million chess sets and 1 million books to one million children. This will be done in each primary school face to face. The aim is to create a web site for training kids for chess and other subjects. Also this will go to a result opening a real chess academy in Istanbul managed by GMs for creating idols for the future. The project cost will be more than 10.000.000 USD we expect. This is not a planned project! This is an excepted project.
So you may understand what happens in Turkey for chess, and how hard we try to develop chess in this country. This will make all readers understanding our sensitivity for protecting our rights.
I have given the above information, to explain we do not mind losing a candidacy for organising an event when we make bids. Who is the best host city bidding, should be granted the organisation. Considering the reason for this open letter, I had to explain this in advance.
We have sued the ECU!
It is with big sadness for me to say that we have sued the ECU in the judicial court in Lausanne on 3rd of October, for the decision taken in the last board meeting in Novi Sad on 24 August 2007.
Chess regards,
Ali Nihat YAZICI
President of TCF
12 October 2007
The full information can be read on the Turkish Chess website http://www.tsf.org.tr/ and at http://www.tsf.org.tr/images/stories/ecucourtcase/open_letter_of_tcf.pdf
The USCF and the ECU did not support the Russian candidate in FIDE’s election, and all of the sudden they are sued, and ECU’s. USCF’s management / board members are accused of mismangement, asked to resign, or whatever. FIDE also cut their financial support to ECU Individual. October 3dt- both lawsuits.
I hope Susan will sue Sloan and the USCF. We need a new federation.
“No need to explain what has happened in Turkey for chess as, I believe everybody knows.”
What is it about this blog that we constantly hear people complaining about things that they refuse to specify? Now, the Turks are doing it too. It’s contagious!
Sounds narcisstic: http://groups.msn.com/NARCISSISTICPERSONALITYDISORDER/whatisanarcissist.msnw
“..we have sued the ECU in the judicial court in Lausanne on 3rd of October, for the decision taken in the last board meeting in Novi Sad on 24 August 2007.”
What decision are they talking of?
One million chess sets and one million chess books for one million children???
That sounds so so sweet, doesn’t it? I envy the kids who would be involved.
Turkey is a major destination and transit country for women and children trafficked primarily for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. A small number of men from Turkey were trafficked to the Netherlands for the purpose of forced labor in 2006. Women and girls are trafficked from Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and other countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This year victims were also trafficked from Kenya, Nigeria, and the Philippines. http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Turkey.htm
So many opinions again from the readers here, but it seems that it was to hard for most of them to follow the link and find out what it was really about:
http://www.tsf.org.tr/images/stories/ecucourtcase/letter_to_ecu.pdf
Over the past decade, hundreds of reporters and editors have been indicted, convicted, or imprisoned for news coverage deemed undesirable by the Turkish state. At the end of 1998, 27 Turkish journalists were in jail because of their work–more than any other country in the world for the fifth year running. During a two-week research trip to Turkey in July 1999, CPJ investigated many new cases of press freedom violations, 27 of which are documented below. We found that the Turkish government is still using vaguely-worded laws to criminalize reporting on sensitive political topics such as the Kurdish issue and the role of Islam in politics.
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/1999/Turkey/TurkeyReport.html
Murat Kul was convicted by a State Security Court of violating Article 136 of the Turkish Penal Code (revealing state secrets). He was sentenced to four years and two months in prison. Is this the same Murat Kul who works for the Turkish Chess Federation?