The 35th Ahi-Order Week Celebrations were celebrated in our city with enthusiasm. Minister of Labor and Social SecurityVedat Bilgin, Deputy Minister of Trade Sezai Uçarmak, Governor of Kırşehir Hüdayar Mete Buhara, Kırşehir Deputies Mustafa Kendirli and Metin İlhan, Ankara Deputy Hacı Turan, Mayor Selahattin Ekicioğlu, Rector of KAEU Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya, TESK Chairman Bendevi Palandoken, the protocol of our province, representatives of chambers of tradesmen and craftsmen, and many citizens participated in the program.
“Ahi-Order Established the Principles of Production in Our Country”
The ceremony started with a moment of silence in Cacabey Square and the singing of our National Anthem, followed by a band performance of the Gendarmerie General Command and a concert by the military band. Giving a speech in the program in which the Ahi-Order Week Celebration Message of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was also read, Minister of Labor and Social Security Vedat Bilgin stated that the Ahi organization and Ahi Evran-ı Veli were important values aiming at the work ethic that contributed to the production. Minister Bilgin continued his words as follows: “Regulating the economic life, regulating production, consumption, trade and the whole working life in the economy was the first problems at the beginning of the way and these problems had to be solved. Ahi Evran was the name that solved these problems based on universal principles. In other words, the establishment of the principles of production in this country, what we call Ahi-Order, was the first one. It gave the answer to how the problems regarding production would be solved based on which moral and which humanitarian principles in which countries. Secondly, Ahi-Order established an education system in which people were expected to learn their own human values at first. The Ahi community had built such an education system and such an ethic. The third one was solidarity. In other words, it showed that trade and craft was a whole in production and that everyone who participated in production would achieve together, and that only solidarity could enable that.”
In his speech, Kırşehir Governor Hüdayar Mete Buhara stated that Ahi Evran-ı Veli organized our tradesmen and craftsmen and put into practice a set of values that protect both tradesmen and consumers with the Ahi Organization, which he founded on the principles of "mind, morality, science, and work".
Rector of KAEU Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya, on the other hand, stated that the human values and the spirit of brotherhood that modern times miss the most, live in the Ahi-Order values, one of the milestones of our culture. Rector Karakaya said, "As a university, we care about our history, culture, and values as a requirement of this mission and we will do our best to make it livable."
After the speeches, the Minister of Labor and Social Security Vedat Bilgin presented the title of "Apprentice of the Year" to Samet Çakır, the title of "the Journeyman of the Year" to Yağız Faik Aksu, and the title of "the Ahi of the Year" to Zeki Satıcı. Minister Bilgin, then, presented the 2022 Ahi-Order Service Award to Major General Cengiz Yıldız, Head of Strategy Development and Foreign Relations at the Gendarmerie General Command, and presented the 2022 Ahi-Order Honor Award to Deputy Chief of Police Ahmet Şengün. Governor Buhara, TESK Chairman Bendevi Palandöken, and TOBB Deputy Chairman Cengiz Delibaş vested Minister Vedat Bilgin in the Shed Belt. At the ceremony, the Helicopter Show was presented by the Gendarmerie General Command Steel Wings after the Shed Belt ceremony show was highly appreciated.
