German-Turkish Forum Stuttgart
The German-Turkish Forum Stuttgart (DTF) is a registered association based in Stuttgart .
history
The association was founded in 1999 by German and Turkish people from Stuttgart and is intended to promote understanding between Germans and Turks in the Stuttgart region. The DTF Stuttgart organizes different cultural series every year: the German-Turkish cabaret weeks in the Renitenztheater Stuttgart, the open-air concert CAZ À LA TURCA, SiNEMA - the German-Turkish film days in the DELPHI Arthaus Kino Stuttgart and the German-Turkish literature night LITERATÜR in the Literaturhaus Stuttgart . In 2005, in cooperation with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (IKSV), the Turkey Festival Şimdi Stuttgart took place for the first time , at which the wide range of the music and cultural scene in Turkey was presented.
In addition to activities in the cultural sector, the DTF Stuttgart organizes projects for aesthetic and intercultural education in schools, native language seminars for parents, offers for children and parents who are not German as their mother tongue and for multipliers, as well as projects and conferences in the areas of migration and health as well as politics and business.
In February 2009, the DTF started the “Ağabey-Abla” (Turkish for “big brother - big sister”) scholarship and mentoring program, in which high school students and students from the Stuttgart region of Turkish origin are supported by a scholarship. At the same time, the scholarship holders act as mentors for pupils of Turkish origin at primary and secondary schools in Stuttgart. The “Ağabey Abla” program was widely recognized throughout Germany and was included in December 2009 by the Foreign Ministries of Germany and Turkey as an outstanding integration project in the Ernst Reuter Initiative for Dialogue and Understanding between Cultures .
The DTF Stuttgart is represented in the “Culture” working group of the federal government within the framework of the National Integration Plan.
From 1999 onwards, the DTF Stuttgart was funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation , the state government of Baden-Württemberg and the state capital. It has received institutional funding from the state capital of Stuttgart since 2008. Kerim Arpad has been managing director of DTF Stuttgart since July 2008, and entrepreneur Gülten Aysel has been CEO since March 2014.
The work of the DTF Stuttgart is accompanied by a board of trustees chaired by Wolfgang Schuster and Süheyla İnce Demir. a. and Edzard Reuter , Muhterem Aras , Stefan Kaufmann , Cem Özdemir and Dieter Zetsche belong. The honorary chairman of the board of trustees was Manfred Rommel (1928–2013), Lord Mayor of the City of Stuttgart a. D.
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the DTF Stuttgart Board of Trustees donated the Manfred Rommel Prize for the first time in October 2009 . The prize honors personalities as well as exemplary initiatives and projects who have significantly promoted mutual understanding, good neighborliness and cooperation between German and Turkish citizens. The prize is advertised and awarded every two years.
There are no structural or ideological connections to the German-Turkish Forum of the CDU . The DTF Stuttgart is independent of any party or denomination.