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How can you define expertise as a concept in Turkey? Could cate our decrees to experts online and receive feedbacks rapidly.
you inform us about the working areas of experts? We use our website and social media accounts very actively. We
publish professional developments on these platforms. We can
Expertise became a legal profession in Turkey as of 1927, mak- share information by sending e-mails. In case of a professional
ing it one of the oldest professions of our country. We mostly spe- problem, we receive opinions from our regional representatives,
cialize in automotive and engineering insurance lines. We also and if necessary, escalate them to the executive committee via
have experts in fire, accident, marine and property lines as well; our management board. What is really important is to carry this
in addition to aviation, ships and rolling stock, fidelity, credit, mission into the future. Today, our biggest mission is to main-
and finance fields. Therefore, despite having different fields of tain this organized mechanism, foresee the future risks for this
specialties, experts are organized under a single roof. They each profession, develop projects to address those risks, and manage
receive separate licenses. In the past, they were able to operate the process in implementing them. We act as the biggest helper
in all fields with a single license. With regulatory changes, they of Insurance Experts Executive Committee.
were later required to specialize and get certified in their own
fields. If an expert who is specialized in a specific field wishes to What kind of training is required to become an expert?
receive another certificate, they can do so by taking the related
examination. Experts in Turkey mostly serve the insurance mar- We prefer candidate experts to receive trainings in the fields
ket; however they also provide services for public institutions, where they will specialize. However, according to the current
citizens and courts. Expertise is a profession that can only be legislation, graduating from any faculty of any university makes
conducted exclusively. In that sense, it is significant and unique. you eligible to take the experts’ examination. One of our goals
Turkey’s only exclusive institution specialized in loss adjustment is to make sure that experts graduate from departments that
is the Insurance Experts Association, because there are no other are related to the fields they will specialize in. But a regulatory
exclusive institutions that is legally authorized to carry out this change is required to realize that goal. Today, in order to become
profession. an expert, you are required to take a preliminary exam, attend
the training, take another exam after the training, and become
Our goal is to improve expertise eligible for internship. After you complete the internship pro-
gram, your internship process is subjected to evaluation. If you
profession, raise new experts and act successfully complete this process, you get registered in the In-
as a solution center to solve problems surance Experts Executive Committee of the Union of Chambers
and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey. This means that you can
related to experts actively begin your profession as an expert.

When and with which purpose was the Insurance Experts Could you tell us about the advantages experts bring into the
Association of Turkey founded? Could you inform us about insurance market?
the activities of the Association?
We have active experts in 57 cities, and majority of them are
Our Association was founded in 1935 when 5 experts got togeth- located in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Antalya, Samsun,
er. Our goal is to improve expertise profession, raise new experts
and act as a solution center to solve problems related to experts.
It was founded as a business association under the name of ‘So-
ciety of Insurance Experts of Turkey’. Due to some regulatory
changes in 1974, it has been conducting its operations under the
name of ‘Insurance Experts Association of Turkey’ since then.
In 2007, Turkish experts began to be organized as an executive
committee under the roof of Turkish Union of Chambers and Ex-
change Commodities. We have 1.883 experts in Turkey. 1.262
of them are registered as active experts in the records of Turkish
Union of Chambers and Exchange Commodities, and 727 of them
are members of Insurance Experts Association of Turkey. This
provides us with a specific mission. We have turned this mission
into the duty of organizing and gathering insurance experts in
Turkey together. In 2012, we completed the project of reorgan-
izing insurance experts under our roof. Today, we have regional
representatives in 13 regions and provincial representatives in 5
cities. At the point where insurance agents are actively organized
and act in unison, it means our Association has conducted it mis-
sion. This is a very important gain for us. Because in the past,
when experts did not communicate with each other and could not
follow up the latest professional developments, this profession
used to suffer. However, today, all the experts in Turkey can
instantly be notified of a decision made by the Insurance Experts
Association of Turkey. Via our whatsapp line, we can communi-