In Turkey we are just beginning to look at how to create better conditions.  With cooperation and sharing of information many changes are happening quickly: two years after our first Workshop on Disability and University, over 200 members of staff are representing 69 different universities.

In summer 2007, when the TIU project application was being prepared, the first Turkish Workshop on Disability and University had just been held.  In May 2007, 28 people from 19 universities met for the first time to share ideas and discuss possibilities; the one-day event was a dissemination activity for EU Leonardo da Vinci project 'University Disability Support Systems: TR-UK '.  Turkish associate members of TIU were selected from participants at the first Turkish Workshop. 

In October 2007, the email group 'Engelsiz Üniversiteler Platformu' was established to link people who had come from many parts of Turkey to the May 2007 workshop.   By May 2008 others had joined the group, and all wanted another meeting; the 2nd national Workshop on Disability and University was again help at METU , attended by 50 participants from 28 universities. One major announcement was the acceptance of 'Towards Inclusive Universities' EU project.  

For the opening event TIU1, several of the invited speakers were people we had met at the national Workshops.  Together we gave a clear message to the people of Antakya and Hatay.  Throught TIU, these people were able to meet and listen to colleagues from Handicap-Sudie, and begin to understant how (principles and practical organisation) support for disabled students is organised in Holland. 

Further impact of the TIU project was seen in the organisation of the 3rd Turkish Workshop on Disability+University (March 2009, at the University of Istanbul).  We had been looking for an effective way for universities to present similar types of information, without taking up workshop time.  The solution was translating the TIU3 survey , and formatting it as a poster outline.  Seven universities presented posters to about 150 participants, who took A4 printouts of the information to show colleagues at their individual universities.