The History Foundation is a non-governmental organization working in the public interest with the objective of developing and extending history consciousness in Turkey. It aims at enriching and lending a new content to the way in which people regard history and at encouraging the conservation of the historical heritage with a deep-rooted sensitivity and active participation of wide sections of the population.

Believing that a sound knowledge of history is one of the most important elements in the formation of individual and social consciousness, the History Foundation endeavours to help the Turkish people form a direct, truly comprehensive and non-instrumentalist relationship with their own history and to make the subject of history a field for civic action.

The History Foundation is a civic initiative set up by individuals who view the historical continuity, accumulation and change as a basic dimension affecting their lives, and who wish, by participating in activities contributing to its realization, to experience this dimension in a more conscious manner and to raise their awareness of the progress of history.