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The Balcı Foundation was established in 2010, inspired by the idea of the late Mehmet Balcı, a mathematics teacher and education volunteer, that "education is the most valuable structure of a society." The Foundation aims to institutionalize and ensure the sustainability of the educational support activities that Mehmet Balcı carried out throughout his life.
Completing the establishment of Istanbul Rumeli University in 2015, the Balcı Foundation institutionalized its educational ideals to the extent envisioned by its founder. As a result, the number of supported students has increased to the point of being expressed in thousands. With the growth of Istanbul Rumeli University, the aim is to support tens of thousands of students.
Founded on the philosophy of raising individuals with a contemporary and universal thought structure, Rumeli aims to bring individuals who can produce independent thoughts, critical, questioning, analytical, conceptual, and creative thinking into society, free from all kinds of dogma and rote learning.