Support for the Protection of Our Seas from Nurten and Uğur Tatlıcı, Loyal Friends of Nature

The late businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı continue to
support the Clean Sea Association/Turmepa, which carries out important works to protect
our seas, beaches, and waterways and keep them clean. Nurten and Uğur Tatlıcı were
presented with certificates by the Clean Sea Association/Turmepa for their support.

We must always be in solidarity to keep our seas alive

Regarding the donation, “As you know, we published a memorial notice in a national
newspaper on every anniversary of February 22, 2009, when the late Salih Tatlıcı passed
away. We announced that starting from 2020, we have started to donate to nongovernmental organizations instead of publishing commemorations in the newspaper. As a
matter of fact, we continued and continue to support non-governmental organizations
operating in various fields. This year, on the 13th anniversary of his passing from us, on
February 22, we commemorated my late father Salih Tatlıcı with longing at his grave. In
addition, this year, we have provided new support to the Clean Sea Association/Turmepa,
which we supported before on various occasions in previous years. My late father Salih
Tatlıcı used to say, “the sea gives me calmness and peace.” As you know, Turmepa is a nongovernmental organization that has been working on keeping our seas clean for many
years. We also wanted to give them support for their activities to clean seawater.” said Uğur
Tatlıcı.

TURMEPA Clean Sea Association—An association that plays a vital role in protecting
Turkey’s seas and waterways

TURMEPA is a civil society movement that was initiated on April 8, 1994, under the
founding chairmanship of Rahmi M. Koç, together with the Chamber of Shipping and a
handful of sea lovers, to make the protection of our country’s coasts and seas a national
priority and to leave a livable Turkey embraced by clean seas for future generations. With the
projects it has implemented, TURMEPA, which is well known by the public both nationally
and internationally, has become Turkey’s leading marine-oriented non-governmental
organization in 25 years.

TURMEPA, which received the support of organizations such as
IMO, UNEP, The Club of Rome, ICS, and IUCN on international platforms, with the
“Declaration for the Protection of the Seas” published in 1995, obtained the status of an
association working for the public benefit with the decision taken by the Council of Ministers
on June 19, 2000.
TURMEPA, which plays a vital role in protecting Turkey’s seas and waterways, is our
country’s leading non-governmental organization operating in this field. Our country is one of
the richest countries in the world in terms of natural beauties, historical and cultural resources,
biological diversity of its sea and coasts, and both underwater and surface living and nonliving assets. The TURMEPA Clean Sea Association has been working to leave a livable
Turkey that has achieved its goal of sustainability in development for future generations by
making the protection of our seas and coasts a national priority since the day it was founded.
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.

Regarding our Remembrance Messages

To our distinguished friends:

As you know, we published commemorative messages in a national newspaper every anniversary of February 22, 2009, when the late Salih Tatlıcı passed away.

Starting from 2020, we decided to establish the practice of making cash donations to non-governmental organizations that exhibit the highest examples of social solidarity. These non-governmental organizations demonstrate the highest examples of social solidarity all over the world, especially in our country, operating in fields that have an important place in social life and need constant material and moral support, such as education, environment, health, protection of wildlife and seas, and fight against hunger.

Based on this decision, we respectfully submit to all our friends and the public that this year, which marks the 13th anniversary of the late Salih Tatlıcı’s passing, we continue to make donations to non-governmental organizations operating in various fields, as we mentioned above, instead of publishing a commemorative message in a newspaper, and we will continue to do so at every opportunity.

 

Nurten &Uğur Tatlıcı

Late Salih Tatlıcı Commemorated on his 13th Death Anniversary

We miss you very much, my beloved spouse, my dear friend, our dear father,
meaning of our lives, who left us in deep pain and departed from this world,
whose absence we cannot get used to and whose absence make our lives empty.
 
You are always with us in our minds and hearts.
 
Not a day goes by we don’t think of you.
 
May Your Place Be Heaven, May Your Grave Be Filled with Light.
 
 
Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

Sapling Donation from Nurten and Uğur Tatlıcı to TEMA Foundation

The deceased businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı have
donated 700 saplings to the “Ağrı Sabuncu Memorial Forest,” a project of TEMA, Turkish
Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural
Habitats, to support our forest areas that are the guarantee of our future. TEMA Foundation
certified 700 saplings planted with the donations of Nurten and Uğur Tatlıcı.

We will continue to donate saplings to increase our forest areas.

Regarding the donation, “My late father also loved nature very much. He used to say,
‘nature is the most precious gift given to us.’ To live in a clean world, to protect and develop
our existing forests very well to prevent erosion, we should also plant more trees and
encourage the planting of trees at every opportunity to produce new forest areas. Protecting
nature and leaving a healthy environment consisting of clean air, water, and soil to future
generations should be our main goals. For this reason, together with my mother, Nurten
Tatlıcı, we continue to support the growth of our forests. In cooperation with the TEMA
Foundation, which has been carrying out significant works for many years to protect
natural assets and develop afforestation areas, in addition to combating erosion and
desertification in our country, we planted 2000 saplings in the forest area that will bear the
name of my father, the late Salih Tatlıcı, in 2009 and donated these saplings on behalf of
our loved ones. This year, we aimed to plant 700 saplings in the “Ağrı Sabuncu Memorial
Forest,” a project of the TEMA Foundation, in memory of my late father, Salih Tatlıcı, and
present them to Mother Nature on behalf of our loved and respected close ones. We will
always continue to do our part to protect nature and the environment.” Uğur Tatlıcı said.

TEMA Foundation, Our Pioneer Organization in Combating Erosion and
Desertification

The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of
Natural Habitats, known by the public by its acronym, TEMA, was founded in 1992 by
businessmen named Hayrettin Karaca and A. Nihat Koçyiğit, with the slogan “Don’t Let
Turkey Become a Desert.” Karaca and Koçyiğit, known as Toprak Dede [Grandpa Soil]
and Yaprak Dede [Grandpa Leaf], respectively, by nature lovers and the wider public, due
to their pioneering initiatives in this field, took crucial steps to prevent the desertification of
our country as the founder and honorary presidents of the foundation.

Besides carrying out afforestation studies to create new forest areas in all cities of our country,
TEMA Foundation —which continues its activities as a voluntary, conscious, pioneering,
international, and respected Non-Governmental Organization that works based on science for
the protection of all-natural assets, especially our lands, with the principle of sustainable life,
believes in social peace coming from the soil, integrates with the people, has a say in the
future of the country and the world— draws attention as a pioneering organization that
organizes educational activities to raise environmental awareness, carries out social
responsibility projects for rural development and the creation of new environmental policies,
and develops collaborations with the world’s leading environmental protection organizations,
especially the United Nations, and has won international awards for all these activities.
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.

Certificate from Darüşşafaka Society to Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı

The deceased businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı made
donations to the Darüşşafaka Society on the 158th anniversary of its establishment to support
the education of talented and successful children and youth, whose mother and/or father are
not alive, and who have insufficient financial means and are capable and successful.

Supporting Education at Every Opportunity Was Also My Late Father’s Priority

Regarding the donation, “My late father attached great importance to education. He always
advised my mother and me to support education at every opportunity. It made my mother
and me very happy to have contributed our Darüşşafaka, the first well-established nongovernmental organization in the field of education in our country, which raises children
who lost their parents at a young age and cannot get good education due to financial
means and provides equal opportunities, undertakes such a sacred duty, and sets an
example for sustainable institutions in our country with its 158-year history.” Uğur Tatlıcı
said.

Darüşşafaka Society, our traditional institution providing equal opportunity in
education for 158 years

The association named “Cemiyet-i Tedrisiye-i İslamiye” was established by Yusuf Ziya Pasha,
Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Vidinli Huseyin Tevfik Pasha, Sakızlı Ahmet Esat Pasha and Ali
Naki Efendi with the decree of Sultan Abdulaziz Han dated March 30, 1863. It aimed to
support the education of poor and orphaned children. The Society, of which many Ottoman
pashas and intellectuals were members, set the first example of a civil organization in the field
of education in the history of Turkey. Darüşşafaka Educational Institutions have been raising
talented young people who do not have good education opportunities as leaders who have
adopted universal values, are self-confident, aware of their duties and responsibilities towards
their country and society, with the donations of philanthropists since 1863. Darüşşafaka
Society also provides non-refundable scholarship support to graduates of Darüşşafaka High
School who continue to university. Besides, since 2014, there has been a higher education
scholarship program for university students who are not Darüşşafaka graduates.
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.

Another Year Passed Without You…

We commemorate our precious husband and father, Salih Tatlıcı, who we have always
cherished and will always keep in our hearts since he passed away on February 22, 2009,
leaving us in great pain, with respect, love, and longing.
 
We miss our father and traveling companion in life, Salih Tatlıcı, very much, who is with us at
every moment of life with its bitter and sweet, does not spare us his support, sets an example
for us with his modest and humble life and outlook on life.
 
We will continue to walk in the footsteps of our father, Salih Tatlıcı. He has devoted himself
to charity throughout his life and has always been there for those in need with his
unconditional love and compassion until our last breath.
 
In 2022, our goal will be to continue charity work for people and areas that could always use a
helping hand, such as people with disabilities, environment, education, culture, and stray
animals, both at home and abroad.
 
The Covid-19 virus pandemic, which has negatively affected our country and the whole world
for two years, has taken away many of our people from the world. Many of our people
continue to struggle for their lives in hospitals. My son and I bow respectfully in front of all
healthcare professionals worldwide, especially in our country, who work with great devotion
and who we could never repay them.
 
We sincerely hope that 2022 will be a beautiful year when incurable diseases and virus
epidemics come to an end in our country and all over the world, and love, peace, and serenity
will reign again.
 
Happy New Years!
 
Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

Support from Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı to LÖSEV

The late businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı made
donations to the LÖSEV-Health and Education Foundation for Children with Leukemia
to provide all kinds of needs, especially health and education, of children with leukemia and
blood disease, and to help adult leukemia and cancer patients and their families.

What could be more critical than rehabilitating our children, our adults?

Regarding the donation, “The fact that LÖSEV is an institution that provides support to
thousands of children with leukemia, adult leukemia, and cancer patients and their
families and finds permanent solutions to their problems has been a guide for me and my
mother in our struggle for life. We are happy if we could be of benefit to such a valuable
institution.” Uğur Tatlıcı said.

LÖSEV, which makes leukemia and cancer patients smile

LÖSEV-Health and Education Foundation for Children with Leukemia was founded in
1998. In 2000, Turkey’s first and only Hospital for Children with Leukemia, LÖSANTE,
in 2008 the School for Children with Leukemia, where children with leukemia can receive
a free college education, and in 2010, the Village for Children with Leukemia was put into
operation so that our families visiting from outside Ankara for their treatment can stay for a
long or short term during the treatment. During this period, LÖSEV not only raised the
awareness of children with leukemia and cancer patients, but also the whole of Turkey on
leukemia, cancer, and ways to prevent it and continued to create radical solutions and provide
social and permanent services. In 2015, with the motto, “Do Not Let Humanity Die, Do Not
Let Humans Die,” Europe’s first and country’s most equipped City for Children with
Leukemia and its multidisciplinary hospital, LÖSANTE, was brought to our country.

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.

Late Salih Tatlıcı Commemorated on his 12th Death Anniversary

The apple of our family’s eye, our soul, our father, my cherished life partner.
We miss you greatly on the 12th anniversary of your passing.
Your voice is in our ears. Your love is in our hearts.
One more year without you, but always with you.
You are always in our hearts.
 
May Your Soul Be Blessed.
 
 
Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

Late Salih Tatlıcı Commemorated on his 11th Death Anniversary

My dear husband and my dear father, the late Salih Tatlıcı passed away 11
years ago.
 
We miss the late Salih Tatlıcı, our dearest and the world to us, with increasing
longing every day, and we remember him with endless love.
 
You live in our hearts. You will always live…
 
May He Reside in Heaven. May He Rest in Peace. May He Rest in the Holy
Light.
 
Commemorative Anniversary Messages We Publish in the Newspaper
Every Year
 
Dear Friends;
 
As you know, we published commemorative messages in a national newspaper
every anniversary of February 22, 2009, when the late Salih Tatlıcı passed
away.
 
From this year forward, instead of publishing a commemorative message, we
decided to start the practice of making donations to non-governmental
organizations that operate in fields that have an important place in social life,
such as education, the environment, health, wildlife protection, and that need
constant material and moral support, and exhibit the highest examples of social
solidarity all over the world, especially in our country.
 
We will inform you, our esteemed friends, about our activities on this subject
from time to time.
 
We respectfully present it to all our friends and the public.
 
Nurten & Uğur Tatlıcı

Support to Fight Against Hunger from Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı

Late businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı donated to the World Food Programme (WFP), which works under the United Nations and fights hunger worldwide. Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı, who donated to the School Feeding section created by the program for the healthy nutrition of school-age children, became the program’s supporters that help feed millions of children worldwide every day as the world’s largest and most comprehensive school meal provider.

For a Better World, Don’t Let Children Go Hungry

“My late father used to say that ‘hunger is one of the greatest disasters that can happen to a person.’” He always prayed that no one would be educated by hunger, and he always supported everyonestarving, whether child or adult. If we want to live in a world in peace and tranquility, the problem of hunger must be resolved. In a world of abundance, hunger should be a thing of the past. My mother and I also believe that hunger will lead to diseases, deaths, and an increase in the tendency to commit crimes, and we support organizations that fight hunger,” Uğur Tatlıcı said regarding the donation.

Humanitarian organization that saves and changes lives: World Food Program (WFP)

World Food Programme (WFP) is the ‘United Nations’ food aid program and the world’s largest humanitarian organization in the field of hunger and food security. Established in 1961, the program also delivers food aid to people in emergencies such as wars and natural disasters.

One of the fields of activity within the scope of the World Food Programme is the support of School Feeding. Almost all countries around the world have a school meal program, and every day, efforts are made to ensure that at least 368 million children, from kindergartens to secondary schools, have a healthy diet and complete their development in favorable conditions.

With the efforts of the World Food Programme, effective steps can be taken for both education and healthy nutrition of children by reaching the poor and families struggling with hunger through their school-age children.

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.