Our Vice Rector Prof. İlkay said: “As Erciyes University, our duty is to sustain the Ahi culture at the present time and to contribute to the training of the youth loyal to these values. As it is known, Ahi Evran is known for both his scientific aspect and the values he brought to the Turkish and Islamic society. Ahi Evran is a great scholar and intellectual, who was regarded as the founder of 32 professions and the leader of artisans and craftsmen group in Anatolia. The Ahi organization has had a significant part in the formation and shaping of many social and economic institutions today, as well as guiding the social and economic life in the past. Ahi Evran guided social, economic and political life with the Ahi-order organization and played an important role in making Anatolia homeland and in the establishment of the Ottoman Empire and its being a world state. He was a profound scholar in the fields of tafsir, hadith, fıqh, kalām and medicine, and a high-ranking guardian on the path of Sufism.”