TURKLAB
The TURKLAB Calibration and Testing Laboratories Association was established in 2004 with the mission of representing laboratories in the private and public sectors in Turkiye. The association, which represents our country on international platforms, became a member of EUROLAB on October 26, 2004, the same year it was founded. Our association’s primary objective is to protect and enhance the rights and interests of our sector before legal authorities, various ministries, and public institutions in our country.
The purpose of the association is ‘to gather the test and calibration laboratories established in accordance with the provisions of the relevant laws and regulations under the roof of an association and to ensure coordination between its members’ and its service areas are as follows
a) Organizing and participating in activities aimed at enhancing the technical and commercial development of member laboratories.
b) Supporting and contributing to the improvement of quality management and assurance systems of member laboratories.
c) Monitoring and working on legal, social, and corporate regulations related to the professional rights of member laboratories.
d) Providing guidance on legal, social, technical, and professional matters to members, their affiliated organizations, and other relevant institutions operating in these fields.
e) Representing the sector before regulatory authorities and/or institutions, and systematically formulating and expressing its opinions on regulations and statements.
f) Assisting in solving encountered issues and ensuring the sector's ethical, legally compliant, and productive development.
g) Keeping track of political-technical publications, statements, and regulations that may impact calibration and testing laboratories in Turkey and worldwide.
h) Conducting activities to raise awareness about the necessity of testing and calibration in the industrial sector.
i) Promoting collaboration among relevant organizations and laboratories to harmonize and advance testing and calibration methods.
j) Conducting training and similar activities aimed at ensuring the mutual acceptance of testing and calibration results, establishing measurement reliability, improving traceability and quality assurance, and facilitating the implementation of relevant standards.
k) Exchanging economic, statistical, and technical information with foreign institutions to provide benefits to members and the national economy, joining similar associations and organizations, and organizing and participating in domestic and international trips, symposiums, congresses, conferences, and meetings.