VKV’s Third Annual Report published!

The third edition of “VKV”, the Annual Report of Vehbi Koç Foundation has been published in Turkish and English. With prefaces by Chairwoman Semahat Arsel and President Erdal Yıldırım providing an overview on philanthropy, the Report, enriched with interviews, documents the activities of Vehbi Koç Foundation and the organizations under its umbrella in the fields of education, health and culture.

The interview titled “Curiosity without Borders” with Koç University Vice President for Research and Development İrşadi Aksun and Corporate Communications Director Ahu Parlar focuses on “out of the box” curiosity for science in research and communications. Professor Nuran Yıldırım, a faculty member at Istanbul University School of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine, and the author of “The History of Nursing in Turkey”, the first book on the subject published by VKV, sheds a light on the history of nursing in an interview titled “The Past and the Present of Scientific Nursing”. The interview titled “Living History in Antalya” conducted with Kayhan Dörtlük, the Director of Suna-İnan Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED) and Kaleiçi Museum, offers detailed information about the history and activities of AKMED.

Please click to read or download VKV 2014.