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Ibrahim Yıldırım, our trustee member Dr. GursuGuler and the rest of the Turkish Society’s Boardof Directors, for their hospitality and their interestProf. Marita Eisenmann-Klein (IPRAS President) from the openingCeremony on of the 7th Congress of the Balkan Associationto make more dynamic efforts towards spreadingscientific knowledge worldwide. Congratulationsand many thanks also to the Organizational Office,Figur, and more specifically to Mrs. Nur Olcer andMrs. Ebru Ercan for their excellent efforts andtheir warm hospitality.Literally speaking, straight after Turkey, we traveledto the most sympathetic Sarajevo in Bosnia, in orderto attend the 7 th Congress of the Balkan Associationof Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery(September 14 th – September 17 th ) . This was a veryinteresting congress which attracted participantsfrom the Balkan Area and more specifically, fromBosnia, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria,FYROM, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia. TheIPRAS President, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Kleinattended the congress for 2 days and so did theExecutive Director, Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis. TheIPRAS Booth was also there during the congress andwas staffed by Mr. Nicholas Yiacoumettis and Mr.George Koliopoulos. The Executive Director hadthe opportunity to speak directly to the participantsof the congress and invited the Balkan plasticsurgeons to come closer to IPRAS and to activelyparticipate in the confederation’s activities.The President of the Congress, Dr. Reuf Karabegwas undoubtedly the “soul” of the organization, andwas promised through our President, Dr. MaritaEisenmann-Klein, that IPRAS would help andsupport the Bosnian Association as well as theBalkan Association of Plastic, Reconstructive andAesthetic Surgery, in any possible way.As far as we are aware, the next BAPRAS congresswill take place in Serbia, and will be chaired by ouroutstanding member, Dr. Miodrag Colic, to whomwe wish every success and promise that IPRASwill be by his side in order to help the BalkanAssociation grow even stronger.During the 7 th BAPRAS, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein and Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis, hadindividual meetings with the Presidents of theBalkan Associations and more specifically, with Dr.Marko Margaritoni from Croatia, Dr. DimiterEvstatiev from Bulgaria, Dr. Reuf Karabeg fromBosnia and Dr. Marijan Novakovic from Serbia.From the left: Priv. Doz. Dr. Klaus Exner, Past President of TheGerman Society of Plastic Surgeons, Prof.h.c. Marita Eisenmann-Klein IPRAS President, Prof. Peter Vogt, President German Societyof Plastic Surgeons, Prof. Peter Kompatscher, Past PresidentAustrian Society of Plastic SurgeryIPRAS booth in SarajevoWe would like to thank Dr. Reuf Karabeg and hiswife Amela, for their especially warm hospitality toour President, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein andthe entire team of the IPRAS Management Office.Finally, the activities of the last 3 months endedin late September, with the IPRAS participationat the Joint Congress of the Austrian and theGerman Societies of Plastic, Reconstructive and12 IPRAS Journal www.ipras.org Issue 6