Turkish Cultural Foundation
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| Formation | 2000 |
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| Type | Charitable Foundation |
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Revenue (2015)
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$28,626 |
| Expenses (2015) | $1,892,260 |
| Website | http://www.turkishculturalfoundation.org |
The Turkish Cultural Foundation promotes and preserves Turkish culture and heritage worldwide, and places special emphasis on education for disadvantaged students in Turkey and abroad. Created in 2000, the Foundation seeks to help build cultural bridges between Turkey and other countries in order to support a better understanding and appreciation of Turkish cultural heritage. To do this, the Foundation coordinates a series of people-to-people cultural exchanges, educational programs, and websites promoting Turkish music, art, and cuisine. As a US tax-exempt public charitable organization, the Foundation is supported entirely by private donations and has offices in Boston, Istanbul, Sonoma and Washington, DC.
The Turkish Cultural Foundation contributes to the worldwide promotion of Turkish culture via its three main educational websites. The TCF portals received over 1.7 million visitors from 204 countries and territories in 2010. The Foundation’s Turkish Culture Portal highlights some of the distinct characteristics and qualities of Turkish culture and its contributions to human work. The website is intended as a casual and entertaining walk through topics related to Turkey’s rich culture. Its content will always be a work in progress given the depth and the multiple dimensions of the subject.
Likewise, the Foundation’s Turkish Music Portal is the first public educational website dedicated to Turkish music and was inaugurated in January 2006. The Turkish Music Portal explores the history, reviews the instruments of Turkish classical folk music, and introduces the composers and performers of all types of Turkish. It is available in Turkish, English, French and German. Similarly, the Foundation’s Turkish Cuisine Portal is a rich resource featuring the many different aspects of Turkey’s diverse culinary culture, including history, sociology, believes, ingredients, techniques, and recipes.
For those who want to bring a piece of Turkish culture home, the Foundation’s Turkish Culture Shop promotes Turkey’s diverse and unique cultural and artistic products, as well as providing access to a sampling of Turkish food items. All proceeds from sales go toward projects, scholarships and gifts. Available for online purchase are books, music gourmet products, handicrafts and art work.
In 2010, the Foundation established a portal for the TCF Natural Dye Research and Development Laboratory – DATU. The DATU portal, in addition to providing information on the institutional work of this new TCF initiative, makes a wealth of scientific knowledge on natural dyes available to the public. The portal also features an expansive database and images of plants, insects and other material used in the generation of natural dyes.
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