FN
2026–27
Fırat Nihat Kutlucan
Current term
Our history
Every term hands something on to the next.
A club is the sum of the people who have carried it. This is where we keep that record — the presidents who led it, the milestones that marked it, and the wider Rotary story it belongs to.
How we began
Chartered in 2016, sponsored by Rotary Club of Çankaya
RCAI began as a daughter club of Rotary Club of Çankaya. Ten years on, we have in turn become the sponsor club of the Ankara International Rotaract Club — the same generational chain Rotary is built on.
- Chartered
- 2016
- Sponsored by
- Rotary Club of Çankaya
- Sponsor of
- Ankara International Rotaract Club
Leadership through the years
Past Presidents
Every Rotary year since the club's 2016 charter, from July to June. Four of those years saw the presidency change hands partway through — where a term lists two names, both served it.
- SK
2025–26
Serpil Kocabıyık
- KÖ
2024–25
Kemal Özberk
- RK
2023–24
Refik Kutluer
Founding member
- MM
2022–23
Mesod Mannan
Ayşegül Atak Yücel
Term shared, mid-year change
- AS
2021–22
Angelo Santagostino
İlkşen Çetintaş
Term shared, mid-year change
- FN
2020–21
Fırat Nihat Kutlucan
- NH
2019–20
Nuray Hatice Tokuş
- ÇŞ
2018–19
Çağla Şeşen
- BV
2017–18
Bahar Vicdan
Ayşegül Atak Yücel
Term shared, mid-year change
- AA
2016–17
Ayşegül Atak Yücel
Ahmet Doğan
Term shared, mid-year change
Transcribed from the club's past-presidents sash. If you can help us confirm the order in which a shared term changed hands, we would be glad to hear from you. Contact
Club milestones
What we have marked so far
August 2026
Memorial Forest begins
First meeting with the General Directorate of Forestry to agree the site and schedule for 10,000 saplings.
21 July 2026
First meeting of the 2026–27 term
The new board takes office at Büyükhanlı Park Otel, two new members join, and the club says farewell to founding member and 2023–24 president Refik Kutluer.
5 July 2026
Hatıradan Umuda launches
The first action of the term: furniture and household goods collected and delivered to five families in Mamak.
2025–26
The previous term closes
Under President Serpil Kocabıyık the club ends the year with 16 members, two scholarship students and an established concert series.
Chartered
2016
The wider story
How Rotary reached Ankara
1905
Rotary is founded in Chicago
Paul Harris and three colleagues meet for the first time on 23 February 1905 — the beginning of the world's first service club organisation.
1954
The first Rotary club in Türkiye
Ankara Rotary Kulübü is founded at Ankara Palas on 24 March 1954, making Ankara the first Turkish city with a Rotary club. Istanbul follows in 1956.
1993
District 2430 takes its name
Türkiye's Rotary districts are recoded in 1993. District 2430 covers Central and Eastern Anatolia — and Ankara with it.
2016
Rotary Club of Ankara International is chartered
Sponsored by Rotary Club of Çankaya, RCAI joins District 2430 as an English-speaking club — RI club ID 87247.
2026
Rotary Club of Ankara International today
17 members and counting, sponsor of the Ankara International Rotaract Club, working under the 2026–27 message, Create Lasting Impact.