RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND GOOD AGRICULTURE

Instead of the reality of villages with sufficient production capabilities and providing food support to life in cities, we are faced with the reality of villages with a decreasing and aging population structure.

The migration process from villages to cities began in the 1960s. Millions of people went from Anatolia, both domestically and abroad. The technological revolution that took place since the 2000s has greatly diminished the desire of young people to live in villages.

Despite the great distance covered in education, health, transportation and infrastructure, the continuation of migration and decreasing production pose a great threat to our food supply security.

Numerous problems such as divided lands, inheritance fights, being a villager not being a status symbol in the social plane, and even being sociologically belittled, not being able to find shepherds, an education system that pushes young people to become white-collar workers, and local production that has not been commercialized and branded can be listed in the formation of this threat.

As Kenan Yavuz Cultural Foundation and Museum, in addition to our efforts to keep our tangible and intangible cultural heritage alive, we have included contributing to the activation of local production capabilities among our goals.

We aim to implement the principles defined by the Sustainable Development systematic by working together with local dynamics.

We will pioneer good agricultural practices with the mechanisms to be established by activating our network at national and international levels.

The Cauldron of Secret Keeping

Not every jug can hold water, not every person can be a confidant. When you keep it, it becomes our prisoner, when you lose it, it becomes our master “SIR”

It is like boiling water in a cauldron, you have to put out the fire burning underneath, if it gets hot, the boiling water overflows, burns and passes…
“Keeping a Secret” is one of the 8 corners of the Seljuk Star, it is the strongest bond between the Almighty Creator and the servant…
It is necessary to live far from the one who stokes the fire burning under the cauldron of secrets, to keep the “Cauldron of Secrets” behind bars

Secret is the soul of patience, welcome to the Cauldron of Patience…

In 2014, we collected 4000 signatures with the campaign we made for ugly construction and demolishing the buildings that spoiled the historical architectural texture of Bayburt and shared them with the relevant institutions as files. The Governorship additional service building, which we requested to be demolished within the scope of our signature campaign, was demolished and brought to the city square.
Our signature campaign has created a significant level of awareness in the city, and ugly urbanization has been put on the agenda of the city.

House of Culture in our exhibition brings together art lovers, Turkey ranks the 20 old door knobs and brought from various provinces.

Flowers of My Village

Come on, it’s dawn …

The day is rising… It’s time for the holidays.

Thirsty calves, wheat, alfalfa, barley …

And the flowers… The flowers of my village. He waits to be sniffed, those who know how to smell. They expect to be loved, those who know how to love. He waits for the conversation, from those who know the conversation. Loyalty awaits, from those who forget …

In these lands where our childhood and youth passed, there was no electricity, no water, no hospital, no school, but there was a lot of people… We were unaware of our flowers, we did not think to bend over, smell, touch and caress, neither we children nor adults.

Now, people are decreasing, decreasing… Young people are in love with the metropolitan, they dream of becoming a civil servant. Our henna girls love to live in cities. What remains are the households that are closed every year, the ruined mansions, the sad fountains, and the bowed flowers. Our people who are determined to live in this land are unhappy, unhappy without knowing why they are unhappy. They also cannot see these flowers… Yet now all vital civilized means are available, yet our people are unhappy.

People are astonished, why are we unhappy among these beauties, have we forgotten to be thankful? Or did we forget the assemblies of friends, the holidays or the folk songs?

Were these lands more cheerful in those years when even the flickering flame in the gas lamp was cold? Or have we forgotten to talk, to worry, to share?

While every beauty that should not change is on the way to erosion and disappearance, the increasing technology and the level of prosperity constantly raise our expectations. The ambition to consume, to consume more, the desire to reach more makes us all poor.

While bodies are getting richer, souls are getting poorer …

In those years when we did not even know electricity, our flowers, which we could not see and noticed in the difficulties of life, now do not appear among the mechanized world, robotized brains, concrete houses.

Our petrified souls, dried hearts, and desolate lands are waiting for a Mevlana , a Yunus again?

However, there are many good words that have not been said yet under the dome of the sky. Beautiful words that should not be consumed …

My dear brother, Necip Yavuz , we wanted the photographs of Mr. Necip Yavuz to be noticed with this book as Kenan Yavuz Culture House , with her efforts of nearly 20 years. We invite all our friends who have reached our book to experience this magnificent beauty.

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Kenan Yavuz Culture House aims to realize many transformation and conservation projects in order not to lose a single old work.
About a year ago, Kenan Yavuz, who started the “Give Me Back My Bayburt” campaign aimed at preserving the urban identity, took the first step of the campaign by undertaking the restoration of the historical fountain.

The historical fountain located in Akyaka village in the Demirözü district of Bayburt was restored in accordance with its original and restored to the cultural life of Bayburt.
Social responsibility projects, which started with the restoration of a historical fountain in Akyaka village, are aimed to continue in other villages and in Bayburt center.

With our Culture House and BEKDER’s “Play for Bayburt, Sing for Beşpınar” project, we brought together the beautiful voices of the region in the song of Can Maral.