• • Laying Claim to the Future
  • Chairman's Message
  • CEO's Message
  • Corporate Profile, Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Corporate Values
  • Summary Financial Information
  • Türkiye Finans and Sustainability
  • Sustainability Organization at Türkiye Finans
  • Corporate Governance Organization at Türkiye Finans
  • Awards and Recognition
  • Stakeholders and Stakeholder Participation
  • We Generate Value for our Customers
  • We Generate Value for the Environment
  • We Generate Value for our Employees
  • We Generate Value for the Community
  • About this Report
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Laying Claim to the Future

Continuing to protect Turkey’s traditional values, while laying claim to its future…

Türkiye Finans conveys its leadership in participation banking to different areas with an awareness and determination to protect Turkey’s cultural heritage and to carry it to the future.

By sponsoring the historical Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Festival, Türkiye Finans has taken on a significant task in supporting the social and cultural aspects of sustainability.

Given the Bank’s objectives of carrying traditions to the future and avoiding disunity between generations by ensuring such traditions are an inseparable part of the culture and daily life, this sponsorship has gained greater meaning in terms of the contribution to the community.

With one of the longest histories of any sports event after the Olympic Games, the historical Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Festival is not only a legendary tradition with a history of more than 650 years, but also a sporting discipline that encompasses universal values.

By sponsoring the historical Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Festival, which is on UNESCO’s list of Intangible World Cultural Heritage, Türkiye Finans has saved the sport of oil wrestling from sinking into oblivion, and has striven to make it a living sports branch.

Türkiye Finans is the first company to have supported this sports branch on an institutional basis. The Bank goes to great lengths to ensure that oil wrestling -known as the “ancestor sport” for centuries - passes from one generation to the next, while also raising public awareness of it.

During the 3-year sponsorship, we aim to introduce oil wrestling to an increasing number of people and to promote it as a universal value.

Türkiye Finans

With one of the longest histories of any sports event after the Olympic Games, the historical Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Festival is not only a legendary tradition with a history of more than 650 years, but also a sporting discipline that encompasses universal values.

The miniatures in this report were made by Ferhat Akıl specially for Türkiye Finans within the scope of the project of Supporting Historical Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Contest.

FERHAT AKIL
Born in Istanbul in 1981, Mr. Akıl continues his post-graduate education at the Department of Traditional Turkish Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University. Mr. Akıl stepped into the world of art when he started receiving hand-carving lessons from Abdullah Oğuzhanoğlu in 2004 at the Traditional Turkish Hand Arts courses opened by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Later interested to the miniature craft, Mr. Akıl began to receive miniature lessons from Dilek Yerlikaya in 2008. One of his pieces was deemed worthy of exhibition in the project entitled “Bugünün Ustaları” (Masters of Today) held by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. His other piece entitled “Üsküdar Mevlevihanesi” (Lodge for Mevlevi Dervishes in Üsküdar) was included in “İstanbul’un Yüzü” (Face of Istanbul), a project jointly organized by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the Foundation of Classical Turkish Arts in 2011. The piece also appeared in the book entitled “İstanbul’un Yüzü” (Face of Istanbul). Mr. Akıl’s pieces have been exhibited in many domestic and international fairs. He continues his efforts from his workshop in Üsküdar.