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Hayalime Ortak Ol​ Association visited Anıtkabir on 10 November. Atakan Atalar, the founder of the association, said: “We are happy and proud to appear before our father with our students, as well as our board of directors and volunteers.”

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ISTANBUL (TR) - Anıtkabir, which hosted approximately 6.5 million people in 2019 before the pandemic, was again flooded with visitors on November 10 this year. Together with its students, members of the board of directors and volunteers, Hayalime Ortak Ol Association took its place among these visitors. Atakan Atalar, the Founding President of the Become a Partner in My Dream Association, shared his thoughts on the subject with these words: “In the light of our father's principles and reforms 4 years ago, we are providing educational support to 38 students on this path we set out to provide equal opportunities for our youth in education, sports and art. We are happy and proud to appear before our Father with our students on November 10."

Students from all over Turkey are at Anıtkabir…

Stating that they visited Anıtkabir together with university students from all over Turkey, Pınar Yılmaz, Secretary General of the Hayalime Ortak Ol Association, touched on the student selection criteria: “We received more than 1,500 applications from almost every city in Turkey during the scholarship application process that we concluded last September. . Among these applications, we carried out a multi-stage evaluation process based on the criteria we determined in accordance with our values. After the preliminary interviews and interviews with 130 candidate students, we increased the number of students in the Join My Dream family to 38.”

“We are working to ensure that students participate in business life equipped”

Talking about the activities of the association, Pınar Yılmaz said, “We do not only provide scholarship support, we also carry out activities that will help our students' social and psychological development, as well as facilitating their internship and job search. While creating their career plans, we also help them to participate in life more equipped.” Adding that he has students in cities such as Düzce, Konya, Eskişehir, Samsun, Balıkesir, Aydın, Erzurum and Tekirdağ as well as in big cities such as İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir, Yılmaz said, “We want to add more students from more cities to our family in the future. For this reason, we aim to have representative offices in the cities where our students are located, and even abroad.”

“Every dream that you put in effort will come true one day”

“Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whose greatest work was the Republic of Turkey, also had a dream: A modern and free country that cares about education. Atakan Atalar, Chairman of the Board of Directors, who said, "The achievements of our father, who was a true idealist, are proof that every dream we put into will come true one day," and continued his words as follows: "Our aim while establishing our association; was to be with our children and youth, who had dreams but were moved away from their dreams due to the material and moral negativities they were in. Today, we continue to carry out studies in line with this aim, and support more and more students to reach their dreams by touching their lives every day.”