altitude75k

I received the following:
"Welcome to Miles&Smiles Turkish Airlines' advantageous Frequent Flyer Program. Elite card trial period will be valid for 4 months. As of start date of elite membership within 4 months trial period one international Turkish Airlines flight should be realized for extending your card validity date to 1 year, if 15.000 status miles accumulated from Turkish Airlines flights at the end of the first year elite membership will extend 1 year more and the total validity date will be 2 years. There is an oppotunity to earn extra %50 status miles from your first business class flight in the trial period."

So, I did a CAI to EU flight via IST and received my Gold card in the mail. I matched through AA EXP Emerald. So, I see my miles but still shows expiration in June 2017. I read so many people here saying its not honored? I will wait beyond the June period and see what happens to go for the remaining 13,000 I need to reach 15,000 for the second year. Why send a lovely Gold card package if only for 4 months? Am I missing something ?
Expiry still shows June 2017 despite doing that "one international Turkish Airlines flight should be realized for extending your card validity date to 1 year"