He is the co-founder of AKUT Search and Rescue Association. AKUT is a volunteer-based search and rescue team. Nasuh Mahruki has founded AKUT in 1996 with a group of his mountain climber friends. It became the only NGO organized around search and rescue, before the big Marmara earthquake that hit Golcuk and killed approximately 18,000 people on August 17, 1999. AKUT volunteers rescued 220 people under the collapsed structures. They were so effective and helpful for the victims during those very difficult days, the Turkish people chose AKUT as the most trusted entity of Turkey. Today there are more than 20 AKUT units and more than 1,000 volunteers all over Turkey, and until today 852 people have been rescued or moved to safe environments by AKUT. Nasuh Mahruki resigned from his duty as the chairman of the board on November 30, 2016 as a result of strong pressure from the Turkish government, after his speech on TV against the president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.