Sifu (father, master) Salih AVCI is the founder, chief trainer and leader of the young and dynamic martial arts organization WTEO (Wing Tsun- Escrima Organization). Under the umbrella of WTEO, the martial arts of Avci Wing Tsun and Avci Escrima are taught in more than 100 schools throughout Europe, Turkey and other countries.
WTEO is a nonpolitical and independent organization for martial arts and tactical security training.

Sifu Avci started to learn Wing Tsun in 1980 in order to augment his motivation and learn seşf defense and started to teach this martial art in his own school in Aachen in 1984.

In a very short time he became one of the 5 great masters and then one of the three within the European Wing Tsun Organization. In 1991 he was chosen the best martial arts practitioner among eight others in “International Police Experience Sharing and Development Seminar” in Göpingen.

In 1992 he started to instruct SEK, the special police squad of NRW (Nordrhein Westphalia) State in Germany and he still is the Chief Instructor of this squad. He also instructs MEK and ZUZ squads.

The techniques Sifu Avci developed for convict transfer and control have been officially and legally recognized by the Justice Ministry of the State of NRW and are practiced in all correctional facilities in the state. Sifu Avci serves both as an instructor and a consultant to the Ministry and updates his techniques regularly.

In 1997 Sifu Avci established Avcı Wing Tsun- Escrima Organization (WTEO),

In 2002, he started to teach - and have continued since - his new system to the Trainers of NRW State Police Force with more than 35000 officers in the field.

Sifu Avci’s workshop for “International Professionalism Days” organized by Hoogerheide Academy of The Netherlands Police was chosen the Most Successful Workshop and later Sifu Avci provided a seminar to the Chicago Rapid Response Team on operations on trains and subway wagons.

Sifu Avci instructs several special forces regularly in Turkey.

Sifu Avci also instructs the Prime Ministry Protection Team’s Trainers at irregular intervals on VIP Protection Training based on Avci System which started in August 2008,

Sifu Avci currently is the Chief Instructor of Federal Police Force BKA and Federal Customs Protection Team ZUZ, NRW State Police Force, NRW State Special Forces MEK and SEK, and NRW State Justice Mininstry Correctional Officers Training Academy (JVS).

Sifu Avci is married with 6 children.