We Support Our Four-Legged Friends In The Earthquake Region

As Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, we have donated to the Paw Guardians Animal Protection Association (PAW GUARDS) and Association for the Protection of Animals from Helplessness and Indifference (HAÇİKO), which make great efforts to contribute to their well-being and safety and to be the voice of our little friends who can’t speak. They work for animals in need who have been negatively affected by the great earthquake disaster in our country.

Helplessness is the same for every living creature in the world.

Uğur Tatlıcı, Executive Board Member of our foundation, said: “Thousands of our citizens have lost their lives and tens of thousands of our citizens are being treated in hospitals with injuries as a result of the earthquake that has hit ten provinces of our country on a large scale. In addition, millions of our citizens lost their homes and belongings. Undoubtedly, such disasters adversely affect not only children and adults but also animals. No life in the world is more valuable than another. They are all very precious. As a foundation, our support for earthquake victims continues to grow. This time we supported PAW GUARDS and HAÇİKO, one of the organizations working for animals in need in the earthquake region. I hope that neither our country nor the whole world will ever experience such a disaster again”.

Paw Guardians Animal Protection Association (PAW GUARDS)

Paw Guards is Turkey’s largest platform developed entirely for stray animals, pet owners, and animal lovers. Paw Guards was born from the words “Paw Guards” in Turkish. Its priority is to ensure that all living creatures on the streets do not starve. Paw Guards is also Turkey’s and the world’s largest online lost and found platform. When members enter a lost announcement, they can add a location. As soon as the announcement is entered, within seconds, instant notifications are sent to the location where the lost announcement is entered and the members closest to this location.

Association for the Protection of Animals from Despair and Indifference (HAÇİKO)

HAÇİKO was founded in 2010 by Ömür Gedik with the aim of becoming the most reliable association that works in all aspects related to animal rights and their protection in our country and that can influence the public and inspire the society on animal rights. All of HAÇİKO’s efforts and activities are directed towards the super-goal of bringing the understanding of the integrity of all living beings sharing the same world to our society. The activities carried out by the association within the scope of its ever-growing power aim to protect and improve the welfare of all animals, regardless of species, that have been removed from their natural habitat and to bring them back to their natural habitats. It strives to pioneer the provision of nutrition, care, and treatment of animals in need of help, to set an example, and to draw public attention to these animals. HAÇİKO, which draws its strength from individuals, organizations and public authorities who love all living creatures living in the same geography we share, works to ensure that animal rights are included in the relevant laws and regulations as they should be and is determined to be the voice of our world partners who cannot speak.
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.

Our Foundation’s Support for AKUT

The Salih Tatlıcı Foundation has donated to the Search and Rescue Association (AKUT), which aims to minimize the loss of life in such events by carrying out correct search and rescue work with an amateur and professional approach, completely voluntarily, as always in the great earthquake disaster that our country has experienced.

Our hope continues for those waiting to be rescued under the rubble.

Uğur Tatlıcı, Executive Board Member of our foundation, said: “Although more than a week has passed, all the relevant organizations continue to carry out their duties with great sacrifice, risking their lives to rescue living beings from the rubble of the buildings destroyed by the earthquake. Since the day of the disaster, we have continued to support AFAD, the most competent institution in our country in this field. This time our Foundation donated to “AKUT”, the first voluntary search and rescue association of our country, which has won the affection and trust of the whole world, especially the Turkish people, with its national and international search and rescue activities. We sincerely wish that our citizens and all living creatures waiting to be rescued under the rubble will be reunited with their loved ones as soon as possible”.

Search and Rescue Association (AKUT)

In 1994, after an unsuccessful 14-day search for 2 university students who had gone missing in the Bolkar mountains, a group of mountaineers who knew the mountains well, but had little knowledge of search and rescue, came together and founded AKUT in 1995. In the same year, this group carried out the first rescue operation in Uludağ under the name of AKUT. The association was officially established on 14 March 1996 under the name “AKUT Search and Rescue Association”. AKUT, the first Search and Rescue Association of Turkey, was founded to carry out accurate and effective search and rescue activities in mountainous and other difficult natural conditions. On 19 January 1999, AKUT was granted the status of “Public Benefit Association” by a decision of the Council of Ministers due to its usefulness in the 1998 Adana-Ceyhan earthquake. During the Marmara earthquake of 1999, AKUT, with the help of 150 volunteers, saved the lives of more than 200 people and won the affection and trust of the Turkish people.

Since 1999, AKUT has been a member of INSARAG, the Search and Rescue Advisory Board under the umbrella of the United Nations, and has become one of the most experienced and knowledgeable earthquake search and rescue teams in the world according to international standards. In 2018, AKUT completed the EU ModEX exercise, which took place at the same time as the “INSARAG” reassessment test in Montana, Bulgaria. As a result, it became the first urban search and rescue team from Turkey to join the European Civil Protection Mechanism (EUCPM). In 2020, it achieved another global success as the first search and rescue team from Turkey to join the European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP) within the European Civil Protection Mechanism under the European Commission.

AKUT, one of the most trusted organizations in Turkey, continues its awareness-raising activities in line with its social responsibility approach. In this context, seminar units provide “Basic Disaster Awareness” and “Earthquake Awareness” seminars, reaching 100,000 people with an average of 2,000 sessions per year.

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.

Our Foundation Made Its 2nd Donation to AFAD

Salih Tatlıcı Foundation has been working and will continue to work with all its efforts to heal the wounds since the moment we were informed about the great earthquake disaster in our country.
 
Although our grief increases with each passing day due to the increasing number of victims, we continue to hope for those who are waiting to be rescued under the rubble.
 
We wish mercy to our citizens who lost their lives in the earthquake, condolences, and patience to their relatives. We wish the injured a quick recovery.
 
We are in contact with the public, private, and non-governmental organizations operating in the earthquake zone for any kind of support and coordination. In this context, our Foundation has made its second emergency donation to AFAD (Republic of Türkiye – Disaster and Emergency Management Authority) and our support to the relief organizations in the disaster area will continue.
 
We are convinced that we will overcome these difficult days with solidarity.
 
 

Salih Tatlıcı Foundation

Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

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.

We Donated to AFAD for the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake

We wish God’s mercy on our citizens who lost their lives in the great earthquake that took place in Kahramanmaraş and in our surrounding cities, and we express our condolences and patience to their relatives. We wish a speedy recovery to those injured.

We, as the Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, are experiencing great sadness…

In order to help our State heal the wounds of our citizens, even for a little bit, our Foundation urgently provided cash aid to AFAD (Republic of Turkey Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency)

Get well soon to our country and our citizens…

 

Salih Tatlıcı Foundation

Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

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.