Solid-organ transplantation in Turkey began with two heart transplants in 1969, both of which, unfortunately, were unsuccessful. By the early 1970s, experimental studies on liver transplantation had already been initiated. On November 3, 1975, the first renal transplantation performed in Turkey, with a kidney donated from mother to son. This was followed by the first cadaveric kidney transplantation, which was carried out at our center on October 10, 1978, using an organ supplied by the Eurotransplant Foundation. On June 3, 1979, the law on harvesting, storage, grafting, and transplantationof organs and tissues was enacted, and in the next month, on July 27, the first local cadaveric kidney transplantation was performed. Antalya is a city with 1.7 million inhabitants. There are 1 university, 2 goverment and 6 special hospitals at city center. In Akdeniz University Medical School, the first living related kidney transplantation was performed in 1982. The first cadaver donor kidney transplantations were performed in 1986. The first heart and liver transplantation were performed in 1998 and 1997 , respectively. Between 1982-1999 mean living releated kidney transplantation rate was 14/year and between 1986-1999 mean cadaveric kidney transplantation rate was 5/year. Between 1997-1999 mean liver and heart transplantation rates were 1,33/year and 0,66/year, respectively. There were only one transplant coordinaor (TC) in Antalya who were working at Akdeniz University between 1992 – 1999. Donor procurement rate was 1 pmp in Antalya and 0,5 pmp in Turkey. 360 kidney transplantation were performing in Turkey and 19 of them were in Antalya. We had a reorganisation in 2000. Our first aim was increased awareness of the public to the importance of organ donation and explain the difference between transplantation and dialysis. Due to these aims we increas the number of TCs 1 to 2 in 2000 and 3 in 2002 and 4 in 2004 and trained all of them. Now two 2 of them certificated by ETCO and all of them certificated by Transplant Coordinators Society of Turkey. We are performing kidney transplantation to recipent with DM Type I, Hbs Ag (+), HCV Ab (+), LCM IGM (+). Also we are performing kidney transplantation with 1 DR match or 0 MM from spousal living donors after regenaration. 200 living related and 49 cadaveric totally 249 kidney , 18 liver and 11pancreas transplantations were performed in 2005. Our cadaver supply rate is 20 per million population (pmp) which higher than of our country (2/pmp) in 2005. Kidney transplantation numbers increas from 19 to 249, deceased donor procurement rate increas 1 to 20 pmp between 1999 and 2005. Amount 758 kidney, 69 liver, 26 pancreas and 13 heart transplantation performed between 2000 and 2005. We think that difference in the transplantation rates between 2000-2005 and previous years is mainly due to the establishment of a good transplant team with surgeons, physians and transplant coordinators. In general, the argument runs for transplant teams “if you can do it, then you must”. We can save life and present a better life quality with solid organ transplantation.