Leaving thirty-nine brilliant years behind, the Turkish Mothers Association is looking forward, to accomplish greater deeds, never being satisfied with what is done in the past.
Being founded on the 14th of May in 1959, the association became one of the greatest associations of the country in a few years; and now it’s well known throughout the country with sixty branches in different towns of Turkey. In general, the main goal of the association is to praise the mothers both psychologically and financially if they are in need and to acknowledge them in every possible way, so that they will be able to bring up a healthy nation, healthy both physically and mentally, knowing their responsibilities for their country and most important of all; loyal to the commandments of our great and eternal leader, Kemal Atatürk.
The association also gives much importance to health and educational problems of the children and youth. This year the association has given scholarship to three hundred university students and families having financial problems and of course, this number increases with the same thing done by our branches in different towns of Turkey.
On the other hand, we are involved in the educational problems of women and inform them for the family planning and birth control and open courses for these purposes in villages.
Each branch of the association is always in close relation with the general committee in Ankara for what is done and what is to be done.
The school built in Istanbul for the children having physical and mental deficiency is worth of noting because we perform all of these with our own financial sources, (donation of our members, charity bazaars, balls and tea-parties) A great rehabilitation center for children with the same problem has been put on service in a village of Izmit.
We also have kindergartens, health centers, and a boarding house for the university students in different cities of Turkey.
This year besides all the activities mentioned above, we have planned to build up a modern school having twenty-four classrooms, language, science and music laboratories in the southeastern part of Turkey, in the city of Urfa (In case if anyone wants to make donation the address is as follows:
Türkiye İş Bankası Yenişehir Şubesi-12100 nolu hesap) in Ankara. We think that mothers have many things in common whatever their nationality is and there are lots of things we can do together for a happy and peaceful world.
We symbolize our association with an olive bough which means peace.
"PEACE AT HOME, PEACE ABROAD" is the motto commanded to us by our eternal leader, Kemal Atatürk.
We wish to create a world of peace, democracy and have deep belief in human rights. Can’t we act together and make a world having these characteristics, dear friends?
As Turkish Mothers Association, we offer the olive bough and want to shake hands with everybody who wants to work sincerely for peace, love and friendship in our world without considering their race, color and religion. We don’t want to see human beings suffering because of terror, disaster, hunger and health problems.
Our best wishes and love to the whole world, a world giving promise for peace and democracy.
TURKISH MOTHERS ASSOCIATION