Alpar Kilinc
Founder of the Turkish Go Players Association and founder of Turkish Go with Mehmet Dardeniz. He was a mechanical engineering student at METU.
1988 Met M.Dardeniz (This is very important! They had no master-teacher. They improved their go only by playing together and reading. Remember, that in those days there was no internet in Turkey!)(20k).
1989 Build first Go Club of Turkey in METU (15k)
1990 Started a go club under an association. (10k)
1995 Build Go Players Association (1996 Turkish Go Players Assoc.)(3k)
1995 We lost him and two other founders of the association in a traffic accident.
It is annually organized a memorial tournament for Alpar Kilinc by Turkish Go Players' Association.