The Late Salih Tatlıcı Was Commemorated On His 14th Death Anniversary

My dear husband, my beloved father; we are filled with the same pain, sadness, and longing on the 14th anniversary as we were on the first day of his absence.

This year, we are also experiencing another pain as a country. On 6 February 2023, we feel great sorrow for our citizens who lost their lives, were injured, and lost their homes in the great earthquake that occurred in Pazarcık and Elbistan districts of Kahramanmaraş and in its 10 surrounding provinces.

As the “Salih Tatlıcı Foundation”, which we established to keep his name alive; We continue to provide in-kind and financial aid to the governmental and non-governmental organizations that rush to the help of our citizens with great devotion in order to help our state a little to bind up the wounds of our citizens.

You will live forever in our hearts with your honorable, virtuous, and moral stance in life.

Rest in peace, may your place be in heaven.

 

Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

We Commemorate The Late Salih Tatlıcı On The 14th Anniversary Of His Death By Supporting Education

As it is known, the Salih Tatlici Foundation was established by Nurten Tatlıcı, the wife of the late businessman Salih Tatlıcı, and Uğur Tatlıcı, their son, to keep the name “Salih Tatlıcı” alive.

As the Foundation, on this day, the 14th anniversary of Salih Tatlıcı’s death, we commemorate our late elder with respect and longing.

On this opportunity, we, as the Foundation, have donated to the Darüşşafaka Society, which has launched a new donation campaign in order to provide more opportunities to our earthquake-affected children who lost their mother and/or father in the earthquake in 11 provinces, to provide 8 years of uninterrupted quality education, to provide the quality education they deserve and to reach more students from the earthquake region.

A certificate was presented to our Foundation by the Darüşşafaka Society for the donation.

“Supporting education at every opportunity was also a priority for my late father”

Regarding the donation, Uğur Tatlıcı, Executive Board Member of our Foundation, said: “My late father attached great importance to education. We, as the Foundation, in memory of my dear father on the 14th anniversary of his death; have contributed to the Darüşşafaka, which has always been a home of compassion for talented children who have lost their parents and/or fathers and have insufficient financial means, which has always taken care of our children brought from regions damaged by natural disasters such as earthquakes, and prepared them for their bright futures by providing them with qualified education, and which has now launched an earthquake relief campaign to increase its quota in order to provide 8 years of uninterrupted qualified education to children who have lost their parents and/or fathers in the earthquakes in 11 provinces, which sets an important example of sustainable institutions in our country with its 160-year history. “

For 160 years, our traditional institution providing equal opportunity in education, the Darüşşafaka Society

“Cemiyet-i Tedrisiye-i İslamiye” was founded by Yusuf Ziya Pasha, Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Vidinli Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha, Sakızlı Ahmet Esat Pasha and Ali Naki Efendi with the edict of Sultan Abdülaziz Khan dated 30 March 1863. Its aim was to support the education and training of poor and orphaned children. The Society, of which many Ottoman pashas and intellectuals were members, constituted the first example of a civil organization in the field of education in the history of Turkey. Since 1863, the Darüşşafaka Educational Institutions, with the donations of philanthropists, has been raising talented young people who do not have the opportunity for a good education as leader individuals who adopt universal values, are self-confident, and are aware of their duties and responsibilities towards their country and society. The Darüşşafaka Society also provides complimentary scholarship support to graduates of the Darüşşafaka High School who continue their education at the university. On the other hand, since 2014, there is also a higher education scholarship program for university students who are not the Darüşşafaka graduates.
The donations and aid projects mentioned here were made by 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.