Late businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı donated to the aid campaign organized by Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) for Syrian refugees.
Hospitality is the most critical value of Turkish folk culture.
Regarding the donation, “My late father Salih Tatlıcı was a philanthropic businessman. He always came to the aid of those in need. My father felt very sorry for the sad life of the refugees who sought refuge in our country from neighboring countries and would support them at every opportunity. Our Syrian refugee brothers and sisters have been uprooted from their countries, families, loved ones, homes, belongings, cultures. In short, they have suffered and are still suffering. We wholeheartedly support the campaign organized by Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent), our deep-rooted organization of great historical importance, to heal the wounds of our Syrian brothers and sisters.” Uğur Tatlıcı said.
Turkish Red Crescent Society: The symbol of humanity, impartiality, and peace.
It was founded on June 11, 1868 under the name of “Ottoman Aid Society for the Wounded and Sick Soldiers,” out of the desire to help soldiers who were injured or sick on the battlefield without any discrimination. The sign of Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) is the bright red “crescent” to the left when looking straight ahead on a white background. In the Red Crescent flag, the open side of the “crescent” is towards the opposite of the flagpole. Between the Ottoman-Russian War of 1876 and the Cyprus Peace Operation in 1974, in all the wars in which Turkey is a party and through the mobile and fixed hospitals it established behind the front, the patient transport services, the hospital ships it equipped, the nurses it trained and the volunteer patient caregivers, the Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) assisted in the care and treatment of tens of thousands of friend and enemy of Little Mehmet who were injured or sick on the battlefield, provided humanitarian aid to the prisoners of war, whether Turkish or enemy, and endeavored to care and protect the civilian population affected by the war.
The aim of Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) is to prevent or alleviate human suffering, wherever it is witnessed, without any discrimination, to protect human life and health, to ensure that human personality is respected, and to strive to bring mutual understanding, friendship, respect, cooperation and lasting peace among people. Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) symbolizes solidarity in times of need, equality in times of suffering, humanitarianism, neutrality, and peace in the fiercest moment of the war. Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) shares the basic principles of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. These are the principles of humanity, non-discrimination, impartiality, independence, charitable nature, unity, and universality. Kızılay (The Turkish Red Crescent) is a voluntary social service organization with a legal personality, subject to the provisions of private law, non-profit, free of charge, and working for the benefit of the public.
