GÜRKAN ERTÜRK (LOSS ADJUSTER)

Graduated from Special College. A Mechanical Engineer in the Ship Engines branch.

At present, working as an Insurance Expert. (Loss Adjuster)

Completed his first technical career in the Turkish Republic Sea Transportation company and in various shipyards of the Republic of Turkey. Then worked in different private sector companies as an engineer and manager specialized on fire safety.

Rendered successful services on fire education / training in Gölcük fire school.

Since 1994, working as an expert on fire / explosion / engineering / transportation / risk analyses for insurance companies.

Active in both national and international levels.

Believes that expertise profession is required to be comprised of neutral technical studies and analyses based on up-to-date scientific data, integrated with comprehensive and detailed scientific studies and activities and past experiences, or otherwise, it is unequivocal that this profession and thus, the insurance sector as a whole is and will be greatly damaged.

He is the engineer / expert who has written / edited the sole / detailed / illustrative booklet published so far in our country in this issue under the name of “Fire At Home – Protection and Survival” which trains the people to live safe at their homes.

In the near future, he is going to write a small booklet about the “Lightning” disaster considered and believed to be a natural event. He has so far published articles dealing with this issue in various magazines.

Diplomas and certificates;

– Insurance expert certificates
– Mechanical engineering diploma
– Ship engines branch certificate
– Fire expertise information certificate
– Data processing information certificate
– Lightning and protection information certificate
– Information certificates received from various local / foreign firms

FIELDS OF SERVICES OF OUR GİRİŞİM LTD. ŞTİ. EXPERTISE SURVEY OFFICE:

Since 1994, we are successfully providing various different expertise survey services to the leading insurance companies of our country…

Girişim Ltd. Şti. expertise survey firm inspects, surveys and reports in details all kinds of damages reported to it, in strict compliance with the purposes and rules of the survey business and profession.

With our expert surveyor Gürkan Ertürk, being one of the very few fire survey experts of both our country and in the international arena, our firm has already proven itself in the “REAL RISK” specialization area by its reports issued so far.

To wit, the detailed controls / determinations as specified in the “Fire Security Regulation” promulgated in the Official Gazette edition 2009 / 27344 on 09/09/2009 can be carried out by our relevant expert and specialist.

The said Regulation, in its Section 2 Article 06 paragraph 06, gives a serious responsibility also to the “insurance companies”… (See the Regulation)

*** OUR FIELDS OF BUSINESS are briefly as listed below:

• Fire / engineering damages and appraisal expertise survey activities and
• Real risk analysis studies.

In order to improve himself further, our expert continuously participates the technical information and training meetings organized by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers and the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, and also takes his part in the foreign training activities relating thereto.

“PURPOSE”

Information is the most vital source for an expert and for his expertise survey business. To put it in other words and more comprehensively, information is element which is absolutely required to be accessed in the desired format and aspects and as soon as possible with a view to ensuring that correct decisions are taken in order to enhance and improve the expertise performance.

Included among the most important sources of information are documentation, and expertise experiences and practices already existing in databases and/or accumulated since many years. The main theme of expertise survey business is the capability to give meaning to data and information avoiding to be overwhelmed by data conglomerates collected in an uncontrolled manner. The available data should be analyzed effectively and comprehensively. One should be capable of producing and generating meaningful results from complex information conglomerates.

One must further be aware of the requirement of effective, regular and target-oriented use of information generated through collection of data.

Such practices as a very comprehensive brainstorming encourage the thinking, word links and connections in interviews, morphological analyses, process dynamics, cause & result relations, computer-aided simulation models, structural detailed dialogues, systematic analysis of contents of interviews, identification of disagreements, competence mapping through cataloging the knowledge levels of interviewees, review of an inventory of previous damage samples, creation of a rich information sharing platform with various different specialists, assessment of assumptions and alternatives, organizational information models, and analysis platform of probable results of analytical based solutions and decision alternatives are among the components required for an expertise survey activity.

Our expertise survey office is engaged in and carrying out the above listed activities effectively, rapidly, neutrally, transparently, reliably, elaboratively and in a solution-oriented manner in both national and international platforms since 1994.