FREKANS has a truly nationwide organization that is spread throughout both rural and urban areas. It offers its services through headquarters in Istanbul and a further 21 Branch Representative Offices as shown in the map below (fig. 1). In this map, office locations are given and the regions are color coded to demonstrate the regions covered by each office. All Branch Representative Offices have extensive and established networks of field staff in the main cities and provinces of their region thereby ensuring full geographic coverage. For this reason our nationwide organization guarantees that, no matter where research needs to be conducted, the field staff that conduct it are well trained and experienced and have in-depth knowledge of the area.