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CSR Association in Turkey is an independent NGO formed by the efforts from academics, businesses and other civil society organizations, aiming to promote the ideas of CSR not only in business world but also to other stakeholder groups such as government and non-governmental organizations. We believe CSR and the values behind it, provides an important insight to enrich social development.

Because of its philanthropic nature CSR is not totally a new subject for Turkish business and society. However, it needs a deeper analysis and a business approach while not underestimating the international standards.

With the support of international organizations such as European Union and/or World Bank, some NGO's, think-tank organizations, business organisations organized several activities promoting CSR concept. However, no single organization has the full capacity, effort and willingness to advocate for a holistic view of CSR issues and develop services to apply it. Therefore we believe CSR Association in Turkey will fulfil an important necessity in Turkish business life. We believe application of CSR has the following benefits for Turkish business:

1. Will foster foreign direct investment in Turkey,
2. Will strengthen Turkish corporate world in competitive markets,
3. Will create a better environment for partnerships between business,
civil society and government,
4. Will facilitate Turkish business to adopt to EU membership
criteria's,

With these objectives every individual and organisation should fulfill their responsibilities to their stakeholder groups. In this view CSR Association in Turkey, for sustainable development and enrichment of social success, aims to create awareness and promote CSR at local and national level. To reach these goals the objectives of the association will be to generate opportunities on 4 main areas consulting and engaging, assessing and measuring, reporting, integrating and influencing. To do so the main activities of the association will focus on the following issues:

1. Identifying the CSR related fields in Turkey,
2. Promoting CSR and developing a public opinion,
3. Publishing researches and articles,
4. Consulting to different stakeholder groups,
5. Creating opportunities for business to experience the benefits of CSR,
6. Organizing events, training and certification programmes,
7. Creating and/or implementing tools for assessment and measurement of CSR,

Finally, CSR Association in Turkey believes companies should and can implement CSR practices and policies into their businesses. This will not only help to improve the development of the society they operate in but also shall be beneficial for their business, as well as a profitable strategy for themselves. We know our efforts will have many positive respond and contribution from all parts of the society.

Corporate Social Responsibility Association of Turkey
Corporate Social Responsibility Association in Turkey is working to create tools, resources and methodologies for business to behave socially responsible on social, economical and environmental issues so that business can have a positive impact on the development of the society.

We show this by our stakeholder management process. Because we are results oriented, we believe in mutuality. That's why we focus on certification and reporting progresses