ABOUT US

FOR A FUTURE SHAPED BY HIGH AWARENESS, FOCUSED SENSITIVITY AND ORGANISATIONAL PROFICENCY FOR PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE   

The Cultural Awareness Foundation (CAF) was founded in 2003 by a group of 148, including academics, business people, artists, archeologist, architects and art historians whose common aspiration was to bolster cultural awareness in Türkiye. The aim of the Foundation is to promote, embrace and inspire the perception of Türkiye’s cultural diversity as a shared heritage of humanity. To this end we carry out structured activities to pass on the cultural property to next generations in a truthful and reliable manner, to promote public awareness and responsiveness in this respect.   

 

Fields of Activity

The Cultural Awareness Foundation conducts its activities for the achievement of its goals in three main fields: 
- Cultural Heritage Projects
- Seminars and Conferences
- Culture Ants Project

 

Mission

- Regard the cultural property as a common heritage of humanity irrespective of historical period, community or people 
- Embrace and protect historical legacy as a shared value, and not as a means of discrimination or othering certain nations.  
- Protect all tangible and intangible cultural properties with utmost care, present them truthfully, and make joint efforts to preserve them.
- Cooperate with all private, public and civil organisations to protect and pass on the cultural heritage to future generations.   
- Contribute to empowerment of the civil society in Türkiye and worldwide, and encourage the youth to engage with NGOs more actively. 

 

Vision

“To be an examplary organisation on international scale and gain global acknowledgement with its successful activities, projects and implementation of its mission for the purpose of protecting Türkiye’s historical and cultural properties up to international standards, promoting greater public awareness of cultural heritage as a shared value of humanity, and educating young generations in this respect.

 

Principles

- Commitment to ethical values
- Honesty, transparency and reliability
- An organisational approach committed to equality and solidarity
- Respect to labour
- Commitment to human rights, democracy and rule of law
- Respect to wildlife, environmental conservation and animal rights