{"id":13,"date":"2020-09-12T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turklongboard.org\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-03-18T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:09:39","slug":"yonetim-kurulu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/turklongboard.org\/english\/hakkimizda\/yonetim-kurulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enfal Altar is a Professional Longboard athlete. He was born on May 18, 1995 in Istanbul Kad\u0131k\u00f6y.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2011, he received the \"Taking The Pulse Of The Planet Award\" from NOAA<\/a><\/strong> in Houston, Texas. He received training on cyber security analysis, database security, cyber threat intelligence and threat hunting. He got acquainted with the sport of Longboard on his trip to America, where he went for education.<\/span><\/p>\n

While he was a student at Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, he founded the Turk Longboard Community with his schoolmate Melih G\u00fcm\u00fc\u015f. He became the Turkish champion in the 17th International Sportfest Longboard Freestyle Dance competition. With the success he won, he took the first step towards his professional sportsmanship by joining the Turkey team of USA Sector 9 Longboards San Diego brand under the sponsorship of Board Sports in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

He became the Turkish champion for the second time in a row at the 18th International Sportfest Longboard Freestyle Dance competition and broke the competition record by jumping from a height of 1.55 cm in the Hippie Jump category.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his business life, there is a media company that provides digital marketing services. Enfal Altar is one of the referees of the Turkish Skateboarding Federation, he has also been a jury in many Professional Longboard competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Pelin Eker was born on August 10, 1987 in Hilvan.<\/span><\/p>\n

She returned to Istanbul in 2005 as a military soldier daughter and started her working life as she graduated from Istanbul University Anthropology Department in 2009. Sports fields that she has included in her life since then; Archery, snowboard, wakeboard, windsurfing, surfskate, her last passion has been motorcycle and motor sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has been roller skating and ice skating as a child.
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She started to work in the field of finance and spare parts order management in the automobile industry with her Master of Financial Management in 2014 and has been continuing his career in this field since then.
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Berna Balkaya was born on February 14, 1987 in Manisa.<\/span><\/p>\n

After completing her education at Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Advertising, she received training in Fashion Editing at Istanbul Fashion Academy. After completing her education, she worked as a writer in various advertising agencies and magazines.<\/span><\/p>\n

She works as an art consultant, curator and writer; she writes articles on fashion, cinema and culture and arts for various publications. She also continues to work on scripts. In addition to these, she works as a manager and artist consultant for the artists she represents. She also provides consultancy on works of art for her collectors. <\/span><\/p>\n

She has curated many group exhibitions and currently provides curatorial services for the solo exhibitions of the artists she represents. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Mehmet Melih Gumus, was born on August 26, 1980 in Istanbul.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is a graduate of Istanbul University Medical Electronics. He started board sports with Snowboarding at an early age. With the desire to snowboard on streets, he bought a Longboard in 2016.
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In order to bring people who love longboarding together, he became friends with Enfal Altar, who was also his schoolmate, on the Caddebostan beach, and he pioneered in turning the Turk Longboard initiative into a community.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the face of daily hustle and bustle in life and ongoing responsibilities, members of the Turk Longboard community enjoy joining their lives with sports, friendship, team spirit and many longboarding achievements. Many excited and passionate longboard lovers will always be happy to include them.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, the post-accident protection equipment he spent while doing Downhill saved his life. Physical confidence is very important as all branches of sports are exciting. As in professional life for Melih; The use of suitable equipment for athlete safety ranks first in its own activities and in the Turk Longboard Community.<\/span><\/p>\n

He continues to work as a Co-founder at Mag Medical Systems Technology in the health technologies sector in his business life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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G\u00f6zde \u00c7etin was born on September 14, 1988 in Karadeniz Ere\u011fli.<\/span><\/p>\n

She completed her undergraduate education at Istanbul Aydin University, Department of Psychology in English with a full scholarship. She continued her academic career by graduating from At\u0131l\u0131m University, Pedagogical Formation education with honors, and then expanded her field of expertise by completing her master's degree in Management and Organization at Istanbul Esenyurt University, Institute of Business Administration. <\/span><\/p>\n

During her education, she interned at Bak\u0131rk\u00f6y Mental and Nervous Diseases Hospital and Istanbul Medical Faculty Psychiatry Departments, gaining valuable clinical experience in adult and child psychiatry. This process contributed to her strengthening her competence in the field of psychological counseling and guidance. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c7etin, who started her professional career as a psychologist in various educational institutions, has taken on active roles in department headship, project development and management. In addition, she contributed to social responsibility projects by representing various civil society organizations in the field of women's studies for three years. She continues her social responsibility projects.
\nAfter five years of training, she was awarded the European-approved title of Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. During this period, she received various test trainings and completed many certified programs on psychological approaches and therapeutic techniques.
\nCurrently, she provides individual consultancy services in the consultancy office she founded and carries out training and development projects with various institutions.
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Selim Merdan, was born on November 22nd, 1984 in Konya.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is a Downhill Athlete. With his passion for extreme sports; He started skating and ice hockey at a young age and added Ski, Snowboard, Wakebord and Longboard to his repertoire in addition to Bmx, Downhill Cycling, Motocross branches.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to his personality on social media, he has also shown success in scientific terms; He completed two specialty trainings and is currently working as a doctor in a state hospital in Istanbul.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Fatih Y\u0131lmaz, was born on May 29, 1989 in Izmir.<\/span><\/p>\n

He graduated from the Radio TV Broadcasting Department in 2010 and has been working as a video editor since then. In addition to the editing of commercials, TV series and films, he also edits the films he has shot with great devotion. He uses Adobe Premiere and Avid Media Composer editing programs very well. At the same time, he met Longboard and met the Turk Longboard Group, and played a major role in shooting and editing in the activities of the group. In this process, he has improved himself in the sport of Longboard and still continues to improve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, he continues to be an active video editor and continues to both do sports and serve the Turk Longboard Community as a Videographer. aka \"The Conqueror of Longboard\" video editor and also a Longboard athlete.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Onur Arkoc, was born on April 06, 1990 in Amasya.<\/span><\/p>\n

He moved to Istanbul in 2011. In the past years, he has been involved in the Brazilian dance and martial art Capoeira. He met Surfskate in 2020 and joined the Turk Longboard community. He is also a wave surfer at the Tula Surf Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

is designing. It creates surfskate installations by bringing these boards
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He is the partner of the Ljus Art brand, which works on surf art.
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