Ziraat Bank targets to further leverage the mission it has taken on within the frame of social responsibility every year.

Ziraat Bank’s social contribution activities continue at full speed.
Targeting to further leverage the mission it has taken on within the frame of social responsibility every year and to ensure sustainability in this arena, Ziraat Bank uninterruptedly carries on with its efforts in various fields with a special focus on education, sport, culture and the arts.

In 2012, Ziraat Bank extended support to projects that will contribute to the cultural accumulation of the society and will help advance the individuals and the society.

Ziraat Bank uninterruptedly carries on with its efforts in various fields with a special focus on education, sport, culture and the arts.

Ziraat Bank extends increasing support to sport.
As it has done for the past three football seasons, Ziraat Bank sponsored the royalty of the Turkish Football Cup for the fourth time in the 2012-2013 season. The organization was renamed as the “Ziraat Turkish Cup”.

During the 2012/2013 season, Ziraat Bank’s sponsorship of the sport club that successfully represents the Bank in the Aroma Men’s Premiere Volleyball League since the 2007/2008 season continued.

Support to the arts is an essential tradition for Ziraat Bank.
Ziraat Bank has attached utmost importance to the arts and artists ever since its incorporation, which is underlined by the slogan “In Art For Art”. The Bank added new links to the chain of support given to the arts since the 1990s, and opened the Mithatpaşa, Kuğulu, Tünel and Kızıltan Ulukavak art galleries and the Ömer Nafi Güvenli Exhibition Hall for art-lovers.

Ziraat Bank continued to support activities in various artistic disciplines in 2012 as it has been doing every year, and sponsored 50 exhibitions that were mounted on Ankara Kuğulu and Mithatpaşa Art Galleries in Ankara and Tünel Art Gallery in İstanbul in the 2011/2012 season. The exhibitions were visited by more than 40,000 art enthusiasts.

Ziraat Bank is the founder of Turkey’s first Banking Museum.
The Ziraat Bank Museum, housed in the Ceremonial Hall of the Bank’s Original Head Office building in Ankara’s Ulus district was opened on 20 November 1981. The museum puts on display the 149-year long deep-rooted history of the Bank that has borne witness to almost every phase of the Republic era, and is the first museum devoted to banking in Turkey.

The Ziraat Bank Museum offers a view of the commercial, economic, political, cultural, artistic and educational transformations that the Turkish banking industry has undergone since its beginning right up to the present day. On display in this historic setting are numerous antique objects that reflect these characteristics.

Advertising and publicity activities
During 2012, three films were aired on the visual media that were sequels to the one preceding each, which were made for advertising and publicity purposes.

Other activities
Having sponsored many trade shows held in and out of Turkey during 2012, Ziraat Bank’s support contributed to the launch of projects that are important for our country.