Salih Tatlıcı Foundation Higher Education Scholarship

The primary principle of our foundation is to contribute to the development of generations that will lead innovation and change, empowered through education.

As a foundation, we are delighted to continue providing scholarships to talented young individuals without access to quality education during the 2024–2025 academic year. Once again, we are collaborating with Darüşşafaka Society, one of Turkey’s most prestigious educational institutions with a 161-year history, to offer scholarships to university students.

The criteria for selecting scholarship recipients, the scholarship amounts, and the conditions for its continuation are determined in accordance with the regulations set by the Darüşşafaka Society.

We wish continued success to the university students we support with these scholarships.


Salih Tatlıcı Foundation

Board of Directors


Our traditional institution, Darüşşafaka Society, which has been providing equal educational opportunities for 161 years.

The association named “Cemiyet-i Tedrisiye-i İslamiye” was founded by Yusuf Ziya Pasha, Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Vidinli Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha, Sakızlı Ahmet Esat Pasha, and Ali Naki Efendi on March 30, 1863, under a decree issued by Sultan Abdulaziz. Its purpose was to support the education of poor and orphaned children. The association, whose members included numerous Ottoman pashas and intellectuals, became the first example of civil organization in the field of education in Turkey’s history.

Since 1863, Darüşşafaka Educational Institutions, supported by donations from philanthropists, have been nurturing talented young individuals who lack access to quality education, shaping them into confident, responsible leaders who embrace universal values and are aware of their duties to their country and society. Darüşşafaka Society also provides unconditional scholarship support to its graduates from Darüşşafaka High School as they continue their studies at university. Furthermore, since 2014, the society has established a higher education scholarship program for university students who are not graduates of Darüşşafaka.

The donations and aid projects mentioned here were made by 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.

Emergency Relief Scholarship for Earthquake Victim Students

We continue to experience the deep sorrow of the great earthquake that occurred on 6 February 2023 in Kahramanmaraş and our surrounding provinces.

We firmly believe that we will overcome this disaster with unity and solidarity and that we will heal our wounds together as a nation.

We, as Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, will continue to fulfill our duty in this regard.

We have created a scholarship fund of 1.000.000 TL for earthquake victims who lost their parents in the earthquake, whose houses were destroyed, and who have insufficient financial means.

You can learn about the application details of our scholarship program here.

We wish mercy to our citizens who lost their lives in the earthquake, condolences to their relatives, and a speedy recovery to the injured.

 

Salih Tatlıcı Foundation