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