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Bike4Kids 2025: Cycling to Support Children’s Education in Türkiye

This September, a dedicated group of Turkish-American cyclists from the United States will embark on a mission-driven journey across Eastern Türkiye to champion children’s education. Between September 10-22, 2025, our team will cycle 950 km from Kars to Van, passing...

Nâzım Hikmet Camp Builds More Than Memories. Join Them Today!

For ten summers, the Nâzım Hikmet Summer Camp has brought together young people from Türkiye to think, connect, and imagine a better future through dialogues on literature, ecology, and shared experience. This year, the camp takes on a new dimension. For the first...

Sourdough Into Scholarships: The Organic Philanthropy of San Diego Bakers

This article was first published on TurkNetwork magazine on May 1, 2025. Every Wednesday evening in the fall of 2019, Seçkin Öztürk and Arzu Göçmen would gather in a warm kitchen in San Diego, mixing flour and water, sharing stories of life back home in Turkey, and...

Turning Pages, Not Screens: A Gift of Reading in Şırnak

As spring breathed new life into the world, students of Aşağıçeşme Primary School in Şırnak found themselves lost in the pages of their new books, surrounded by the calm of nature. Thanks to the generous supporters of BTF, these young minds were given the perfect...