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.