Significant Support to the Library for Individuals with Visual Disabilities from Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı

Uğur Tatlıcı and his mother, Nurten Tatlıcı, made a very meaningful donation to Boğaziçi University Internet Library for Individuals with Visual Disabilities GETEM. On behalf of and in memory of the late businessman Salih Tatlıcı, his wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı donated new computers to this e-library, which was created to provide audiobooks to those with visual disabilities.

Uğur Tatlıcı: “We will continue to support our citizens with disabilities.”

Regarding the donation made to this important library serving those with visual disabilities, Uğur Tatlıcı stated, “During his lifetime, my late father had done a lot of charity work and made donations to support people in need. Now, together with my mother, we are fulfilling his oral will to keep the memory of my father alive, and we support charitable institutions and organizations as much as we can. The computer donation we made to this special library is a continuation of these, and we will continue to support institutions and organizations that serve our citizens with disabilities.“

Boğaziçi University, Library for Individuals with Visual Disabilities GETEM

Library for Individuals with Visual Disabilities is an e-library that has been operating within Boğaziçi University since 2006 and was developed by the University’s Assistive Technology and Education Laboratory for Individuals with Visual Disabilities (GETEM).It provides 24-hour online service for individuals with visual disabilities and other individuals who have difficulty in accessing printed works due to their disability to have them access the Turkish and English audiobooks and information resources in the library’s extensive archive and access to libraries and archives abroad that provide similar services.In addition to these, access to daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines is also offered through the GETEM archives.

Boğaziçi University Library for Individuals with Visual Disabilities, which is one of the most important libraries that serves not only half a million citizens with visual disabilities in our country, but also students with visual and other disabilities access to the information resources they need, continues its activities by further improving its services with the meaningful support of philanthropists such as Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı.

The donations and aid projects mentioned here were made with the personal income of the founders of our Foundation, Nurten Tatlıcı and her son Uğur Tatlıcı, in memory of the late Salih Tatlıcı, the benevolent person whose name continues to live on through our Foundation and whom they bid farewell in journey to eternity in 2009.