Kitap Vakfı aims to provide researchers and future generations with a complete resource by bringing together the ancient knowledge of the past with the opportunities of the modern age.
With over 45 years of experience and a deep-rooted history, our foundation is among Turkey's pioneering cultural institutions in manuscript librarianship, preservation, restoration and digitization of rare printed works.
Over 120,000 rare works and more than 8 million digitized pages in our collection are made available to researchers, academics and students of knowledge from all over the world.
To preserve the written heritage of our civilization at the highest international standards, to digitize it with advanced technology and to make it available to the universal world of science in accordance with open access principles.
To save rare works that are the cornerstones of our cultural memory from extinction, to restore them, to encourage scholarly research and to instill a love of books and libraries in young generations.