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Non-governmental Organizations |
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| The number of non-governmental organizations in Turkey
such as foundations, associations, unions and civic initia-tives
which aim to undertake social responsibilities on a vol-untary
basis are increasing every day. A considerable ma-jority of
these organizations maintain relations with their in-ternational
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 Foundations: The earliest document pertaining to
the establishment of a foundation in Anatolia dates back to
1048. During the Ottoman era, Turkish-Islamic foundations,
numbering almost 100,000, reached their zenith in terms of
artistry, made great contributions to social, economic and cultural
life and introduced solutions in social areas which were
not taken up by the state. |
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| During the Republican era, all the activities of the founda-tions
were turned over to the Directorate General of Foun-dations
(DGF) (1924) attached to the Prime Minister’s Office. |
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Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion
for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats (TEMA) |
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The principal task of the Directorate General is to make sure
that all foundations function in line with their goals, to main-tain
the foundation spirit which is actually a notion of soli-darity
and to teach this spirit to the new generations. To this end,
the Directorate General uses a substantial portion of its real
estate revenues for charitable purposes.
Resulting from the efforts of the DGF, 19,825 registered
his-torical foundation monuments and presence of 27 thousand
unregistered properties which bring income have been
rec-ognized. There are 41,720 registered foundations, 287
sub-sidiary foundations and 161 community foundations remain-ing
from the pre-Republican period, and 4,515 new
founda-tions set up in accordance with the provisions of the
Civil Law, currently administered and represented by the
Direc-torate General. A considerable number of foundations
are engaged in the fields of education, culture, arts, sports,
health, social welfare, science, technology, research, and en-vironment.
Associations: Under the Constitution, every citizen
is free to establish an association without any prior author-ization. Associations were
established during the early
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by the leadership
and with the encouragement
of the state. Through
the legal and mental developments
achieved in recent
years within the frame
of compli-ance to EU rules
and regula-tions, a new
era for associa-tions has
started, and the number
of associations set up and
membership num-bers have
increased consid-erably.
The non-governmental
or-ganizations that comply with
article 11 of the European Human Rights Treaty, carry out their activities on both a national
and an internation-al scale.
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Welfare Associations
help victims of
natural disasters. |
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