Between November 8-11 2005, SIEC hosted the first FEI LEVEL 1 COACHING COURSE held in the Balkan Region. The following coaches, representing host country Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus attended:

GLAD VADIM IAVOROVSKI – ROMANIA / MARIA TODOROVSKA OMARI- BULGARIA / IVELIN IVANOV- BULGARIA / ASPAROUH ATANASSOV- BULGARIA / KAREN LYNN RHODES- CYPRUS / MARINA AGROTOV- CYPRUS / TATIANA GEORGIOU- GREECE / DIMITRIS DRAKAKIS – GREECE / ATILA AKBIYIK- TURKEY / ATA ZORLU- TURKEY / SERRA ONKAL- TURKEY / Lt.Col. FUAT UNVER- TURKEY / MERT ALICIOGLU- TURKEY

At the end of the course, the Certificates of Attendance were presented by Sevil Sabancı on behalf of Turkish Equestrian Federation, Jacqueline Braissant, manager of FEI Development Department, representing the FEI and by Gerry Mullins, Tutor responsible for the conduct of the course.