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- Announcements
About us
- Mission
- Board
- Events
- FAQs
Scholarships
- Eligibility Criteria
- Recipients
Contact us

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES

Announcements

The scholarship application deadline for the academic year 2023-2024 is: August 15, 2023.

Since its founding in 1989, TAWSF has awarded 540 scholarships to 181 students. See the Recipients section for details.

Starting in 2020, TAWSF scholarships are awarded for one year. Students who have been awarded in previous years may reapply.

RECIPIENTS

“The supreme guide in life is knowledge.”

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

January 22, 2017

Turkish Film Festival Funds Scholarships

John Yackley, Chair of the Turkish Film Festival, presented TAWSF president Dr. Ayhan Lash with a check that will provide a three-year scholarship for at least one Turkish university student. The film festival committee included John Yackley, Nilay Duygulu, Dr. Esra Tasdelen, and Yesim Ilkin. Our thanks to these faithful supporters. TAWSF is grateful for all tax-deductible contributions.

ÖZGECAN ASLAN Scholarship

In February 2015, the Board of TAWSF established a scholarship in memory of Özgecan Aslan. Thanks to several generous donors, three students have received Özgecan Aslan scholarships and are now working toward university degrees.

A tribute: Özgecan Aslan

by Zeynep Karataş

Özgecan Aslan was a young university student who was brutally murdered in south central Turkey in February 2015. She was killed on a minibus where she was the last passenger, after she resisted the driver’s attempt to rape her, with her nails and pepper spray. In response, he cut off her hands, burned her body, and threw her into a river with the help of his father and a friend.

The callousness of her murder caused a brief nationwide movement all across Turkey in which women of all ages took to the streets wearing black to stand up against the murdering of women.

Femicide (the murdering of women) is a widespread issue the country is still struggling to combat, and Özgecan Aslan has since become the symbol of female victims at the hand of violence and murder.

CONTACT US

We would love to hear from you.

Please contact our President:
Ayhan Lash
990 N Lake Shore Dr
Chicago, IL 60611
+1 (630) 421-0648
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SUPPORT US

It is more urgent than ever before for us to help educate young Turkish women so that they can become intelligent and self-reliant global citizens.

Thanks to your continued support during nearly three decades, TAWSF has granted over 540 scholarships to young, ambitious students

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TAWSF is a tax-exempt non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
All donations are tax-deductible.