A Success Story: The Governor Dr. Ahmet Altıparmak's Contributions to Antalya

Governor of Antalya, Ahmet Altiparmak

First of all, we need to talk about a sad state, because the Governor of Antalya, Ahmet Altiparmak who has achieved very successful projects in Antalya in such a short period of three years, was appointed to Erzurum as the Governor of Erzurum.

We loved Mr. Governor Ahmet Altıparmak. Therefore, we decided to publish an article about his contributions to Antalya. 

Why Ahmet Altıparmak Important Person for Antalya? 

Ahmet Altıparmak was the Governor of Antalya and he gave a lot of projects in Antalya in 3 years, and played a major role in the development of Antalya. 

In addition, he is one of the statesmen rarely integrated with the locals.

He does not make excuses for the problems, he generates solutions and develops projects. 

What are the Governor Ahmet Altıparmak's Projects and Contributions to Antalya within 3 years?

His contributions to Antalya are many. Here, let's talk about the most important ones:

EXPO 2016 Meeting

• EXPO 2016 Antalya

As you know, EXPO 2016 will be held in Antalya. Governor Altıparmak's contributions are great on this field. He always follows the developments on the EXPO 2016 works. 

Antalya Pedestrian Priority Project

• Pedestrian Priority Project

Another important project was carried out under the leadership of Governor Altıparmak is 'Pedestrian Priority'. Altıparmak gave special attention to 'Safe Traffic' on the project. Antalya became the model city of pedestrian priority in Turkey. Ministry of the Interior in March of this year, at the direction of the project on the example of Turkey's 81 provinces decided to implement the project.

• Alo 179 Tourism Line and Tourist Information Centre

Altıparmak led to the establishment of 'Alo 179 Tourism Line' and 'Tourist Information Centre for improving the quality of tourism services within the scope of tourists who visit the city in order to ensure that complaints are resolved as soon as possible by evaluating.

• Social Projects

Intense drug trafficking in Zeytinköy in Antalya, Social, Cultural, Economic Development Project, initiated by the Governor Ahmet Altıparmak demonstrated successful efforts in the fight against drugs.

• Projects on the Promotion of Antalya

Governor of Antalya Altıparmak spearheaded the establishment of Antalya Promotion Inc. for stronger promotion of cultural and touristic values.

• Port of Antalya

In order to reduce tanker traffic from Konyaaltı to Antalya Airport, the Governor Altıparmak developed a pipeline project from Kepez to the Airport. Actually, it was an existing NATO pipeline, but he provided that transportation of fuels of planes by the pipeline.

As a result, reduced tanker traffic in the Gulf of Antalya, and prevented pollution of the sea.

• Education Projects

As the father of the city, Governor Altıparmak, spearheaded the signing of the protocols of the 98 pieces of philanthropists schools in Antalya area.

• Tünek Tepe (Hill) Cable Car

Finally, the project of  he cable car up the Tünek Tepe Hill was driven by the Governor Altıparmak.

Thanks to the Governor Ahmet Altıparmak for everything. Wish you success in the new place of duty. 

As the people of Antalya, We will miss you!

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Lifelong Learning To Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety EU Project started in Antalya

Walking is definitely the most environmentally friendly and democratic way to get anywhere. No equipment is needed and it is open to everybody. However, pedestrians are threatened and coralled into smaller and smaller spaces in our urban areas. 

The City of Antalya as a centre of tourism, cultural activities, yearly receives about 10.5 million people increases its population density many times. Moreover, it is Turkey's biggest international sea resort. That makes Antalya in the top 10 most visited cities in the world, and the third after New York and Paris in 2012. The dominance of motorized transportation, however, excess traffic affect the quality of public spaces, making critical the infrastructure capacity for mobility, causing extremely slow intra-urban displacements. Short journeys are also affected by the lack of safe routes for cycling and reduced opportunities for adequate and comfortable walking.

As Turkey’s most modern city, in Antalya, pedestrians priority programme is lunched by the Governorship of Antalya in 2011. Within this context, a project was prepared by CEUPA for European Union Life Long Learning Programme and it was funded by European Commision by the coordination of Turkish National Agency in Minisitry of EU Affairs in 2011.

The objective of the Life Long Learning to Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety in Antalya (APPSA). Project is to implement the EU standards for pedestrian priority in big cities, showing the applicability of these standards in pilot areas by dissemination activities. Being a Transfer of Innovation and Vocational Training project to be partnered with 5 local and 3 European organisations, it aims to provide pedestrian safety by creating a learning model that will teach the traffic culture to pedestrians and pedestrian culture to drivers through vocational trainings.

The scope of APPSA will not be limited with the outputs of similar earlier projects, additional innovative instruments will be developed which will increase the number of beneficiaries and expand the impact area by involvement of the public. As the Project Consortium will be composed of the key staff from the local authorities, Governorship of Antalya, Metropolitan Municipality, Directorate of Security, Directorate of National Education, Driving Schools Assc., there will be strong emphasize to implement the proposal through traffic regulations. With the vocational education the participants’ market value in labor market will increase. The outputs and the model developed will further be shared with 80 provinces of TR and all across EU.

Thanks to this Project, when tourists come to Antalya, they can walk on the streets in peace.

The Governor of Antalya, Ahmet Altiparmak

The Governor of Antalya, Ahmet Altiparmak pays attention to and supports this project. The project will last for two years. Three pilot zones in Akdeniz University Campus, Old City (Kaleiçi), and Konyaalti Street Training and Educational activities by MEM and Driviers Schools  have started. The Coordinator of Center for EU Projects of Governorship of Antalya (CEUPA), Baki Karacay and Project Specialist at CEUPA, Meryem Zincirli are doing a very great contribution to the Project.

 

As the best and the most followed blog of Antalya, Antalya City Blog supports Lifelong Learning To Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety Project of Antalya.

 

You can also support this Project on Twitter: @onceyaya or @CEUPA_ANTALYA

 

For more information, please visit: www.ceupa.gov.tr and http://www.onceyaya.info

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