Kalkan Turkish Local News recently invited its members to take part in a survey about Kalkan.  

The deadline to take part was last night.  Some 388 people answered our questions, and we would like to thank everyone who took the time to complete the survey.

So, what happens now, we hear you ask.

Our promise to you on confidentiality
Firstly, we reaffirm our promise to you that none of your individual replies will be shared with anyone outside the KTLN team.  Only summarised data will be published.  

The analysis - Kalkan Belediye
All summary data will be shared with the Belediye, and we hope to present this to members of the Board, with our analysis of what the data means.

Some of you chose to take up the option to record general comments.  These comments are being translated into Turkish and will be passed on to the Belediye.  We will review them first to remove any details that would obviously identify the author.  

We would like to express our thanks to Turkish language teacher, Osman Tok, for agreeing to translate the comments.  Çok teşekkür ederim.

The analysis - KTLN guests and members
Every KTLN member who took part in the survey will also be provided with access to all summary data.  You will receive an email from us shortly on this.

Members who decided not to take part, and non-members will see highlights in a number of local news articles that we will be publishing over the coming days.

We won't be publishing all of the general comments, however we will give you a flavour of what was said.

I love Kalkan because...
Some of you also took part in our free, fun competition to win a bottle of Turkish wine.  We had some great endings suggested for our "I love Kalkan because....." sentence.  We will be announcing the 5 winners soon.

Copyright
The survey findings and analysis are subject to copyright, which belongs to Kalkan Turkish Local News.  However, we appreciate that people may want to discuss and comment upon the findings.  We do not have a problem with individuals sharing this information, however we would respectfully ask that our work is not simply copied and pasted on to other websites.

If any other website wishes to comment or report on the survey, we are happy for them to do so, but would ask for credit to be given to Kalkan Turkish Local News, and a link to KTLN placed on their website. 

What about 2011?
This is our first attempt.  We know we didn't get everything right.  If KTLN is still here in 12 months time, we will probably repeat the survey, taking into account your helpful suggestions as to how we can improve it.  Thank you to those who gave us feedback.