Cane Donation to the Six Dots Association for the Blind

Uğur Tatlıcı and his mother Nurten Tatlıcı donated canes to the Six Dots Association for the Blind, one of the most rooted organizations operating in this field, in order to support our citizens with visual disabilities.

Regarding this donation made on behalf of the deceased businessman Salih Tatlıcı, the deceased’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and his son Uğur Tatlıcı gave the message, “We must support and continue supporting our citizens with disabilities at every moment and stage of their lives,” and they announced that they will continue their supports to associations and foundations working for the public interest in order to keep the memory of the late Salih Tatlıcı alive.

Six Dots Association for the Blind

Six Dots Association for the Blind is one of our oldest and most well-established organizations in this field, which was founded in 1950 by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mithat ENÇ, who is also a person with visual disabilities, in order to enable those with visual disabilities to grow up as self-sufficient, productive and socially-integrated individuals in our country, and to find solutions to their social, educational, cultural and professional problems.The organization, which draws attention with its works, gained the status of an association working for the “Public Benefit” with the decision of the Council of Ministers in 1958.

The association, whose members and managers are all with visual disabilities, is an active member of the Turkish Federation of the Blind and maintains its cooperation with the European Blind Union and the World Blind Union.

The Six Dots Association for the Blind, which has branches in 31 cities, has around 6,500 members with visual disabilities. To date, it has carried out many social and cultural projects, especially in education and employment, for those with visual disabilities.

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.

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.

A Meaningful Donation to the Turkish Kidney Foundation

Businessman Uğur Tatlıcı made a very meaningful donation to the Turkish Kidney Foundation on behalf of his late father, Salih Tatlıcı. Uğur Tatlıcı purchased a large number of poetry books titled, “Unnamed,” which was donated by Selda Topal, the wife of Fenerbahçe’s national football player Mehmet Topal, to generate income for the Foundation, in order to contribute to this beautiful and meaningful cooperation between Selda Topal and the Foundation. Uğur Tatlıcı distributed the book to the loved and close ones of late businessman Salih Tatlıcı as a gift and thus provided significant support to the Foundation.

Uğur Tatlıcı continues to fulfill the oral will of his late father Salih Tatlıcı, along with his mother Nurten Tatlıcı, to support people in need, by donating to charitable organizations.

Most recently, Uğur Tatlıcı made a very important donation to provide income to the Turkish Kidney Foundation, which was established in 1985 to support kidney patients in our country.

A poetry book donated by Selda Topal, the philanthropist wife of football player Mehmet Topal

Selda Topal, the wife of Fenerbahçe’s national football player Mehmet Topal, is a philanthropic citizen known for her support to many non-governmental organizations working to help people.Selda Topal published her new poetry book,”Unnamed,” which she wrote to support children undergoing dialysis treatment with the help of the Turkish Kidney Foundation, on December 2, the birthday of her son Mehmethan. She dedicated the book to her son Mehmethan and her husband Mehmet Topal and donated all of the sales revenues of the book to the Turkish Kidney Foundation, of which she is a member of the board of trustees.

Uğur Tatlıcı’s support for the cooperation project between the Turkish Kidney Foundation and Selda Topal

Toprovide significant support to Selda Topal’s meaningful donation and the Turkish Kidney Foundation, Uğur Tatlıcı purchased a large number of Selda Topal’s poetry book titled,”Unnamed” on behalf of his deceased father, Salih Tatlıcı, and gifted them to the loved and closed ones of the deceased.

Regarding this meaningful donation, Uğur Tatlıcı provided the message,“I am thrilled to support this meaningful project of Selda Topal on behalf of my late father. What could be more important in the world than health? Thousands of our citizens with kidney disease have to continue their lives dependent on dialysis machines. We will help those in need by continuing to support the Turkish Kidney Foundation, which helps them, and the projects of philanthropists such as Selda Topal.”

Turkish Kidney Foundation is an important non-governmental organization that supports kidney patients

Established on May 30, 1985, the Turkish Kidney Foundation is one of the leading non-governmental organizations in this field in our country, which carries out activities by organizing promotional campaigns and training events in order to raise awareness about kidney diseases, as well as to support the prevention and treatment of kidney diseases and organ transplantation services in chronic kidney failure.

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 of Appreciation from the National Education Foundation to Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı

A Plaque of Appreciation was presented to the late businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı for their scholarship donation to the National Education Foundation.

During his lifetime, the deceased businessman Salih Tatlıcı was attaching great importance to education and helping children and youth in need and their families.

After the death of late businessman Salih Tatlıcı, his wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı continued their donations and aids in this direction in order to keep the memory of the deceased alive and to fulfill his oral will to support children and youth in need who receive education, and most recently, they donated scholarships to the National Education Foundation.

After the donation made in the past few days, a Certificate of Appreciation was presented to Nurten Tatlıcı and Uğur Tatlıcı by İhsan Özçukurlu, the Chairman of the National Education Foundation, with the message “You will always be remembered for your scholarship donation to the National Education Foundation on behalf of the late Salih Tatlıcı. We thank you for your interest and trust in our foundation. Sincerely yours.”

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.

Scholarship Donation from Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcı to the National Education Foundation

The late businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı donated scholarships to the National Education Foundation to support our children and youth in need, from elementary school to college.

We are trying to keep my father’s memory alive by fulfilling his will.

Regarding the donation,Uğur Tatlıcı stated,“We will continue our support for the education of our children and youth, to whom we will entrust our future, as well as institutions and organizations in our country that are engaged in activities aimed at protecting nature and the environment.My father was a successful businessman who started working at a very young age and left his education to support his family after elementary school and started his own business, and he attached great importance to education.While he was alive, he made large donations to education and would like us to continue to do so. Together with my mother, we are trying to fulfill hisoral will.”

The National Education Foundation is one of the non-governmental organizations that provide the greatest support to education.

The National Education Foundation was established on February 19, 1981 by the leading business people, academics, and bureaucrats of our country, including VehbiKoç and SakıpSabancı, and started its activities under the name of the Ministry of National Education Foundation.The Foundation, which became stronger with the support and donations of our citizens and business people, changed its name to the National Education Foundation in 1986.

The Foundation, which is among the non-governmental organizations that provide the greatest support to national education in our country, has given non-refundable scholarships to 26,000 students, in addition to having 128 Schools, 7 Student Dormitories, 5 Teachers’Guest Houses, 2 Teachers’Social Clubs built since its establishment, and by increasing all these, it aims to continue to support the needs of students and teachers in education.

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.

Donation of 2000 Saplings to the TEMA Foundation for the Salih Tatlici Memorial Forest

Ugur and Nurten Tatlici provided significant support to the creation of the Salih Tatlıcı Memorial Forest by donating 2000 trees to the Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats(TEMA)Foundation to keep the memory of late businessman Salih Tatlici alive.

We Will Continue to Do Our Part to Protect Nature

“We wanted to help create a forest on behalf of my late father, together with my mother Nurten Tatlici, to support the re-development of forest areas that are gradually decreasing in Turkey.In cooperation with the TEMA Foundation, which has been carrying out very significant works for many years to protect natural assets and develop afforestation areas, in addition to combating erosion and desertification of our country, we planted 2000 saplings in the forest area that will bear the name of my father Salih Tatlıcı, and we aimed to gift these saplings to Mother Nature by donating them on behalf of our loved and respected ones.We will always continue to do our part to protect nature and the environment.”said businessman Ugur Tatlici, the youngest son of late Salih Tatlici.

TEMA Foundation certified 2000 saplings planted in the Salih Tatlıcı Memorial Forest donated by Uğur and Nurten Tatlıcıand delivered each of them to the certificate holders on whose behalf a donation was made.

TEMA Foundation, One of the Pioneering Organizations of Our Country to Fight Against 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 very important 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 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.