Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation

Inspired by the vision of its co-founders to protect and preserve cultural assets of Turkey that are starting to perish, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation undertook another project in 2005-2007. This project entailed the completion of the necessary infrastructure to transfer the works into a digital environment and create electronic books of more than 20,000 manuscripts preserved in the collection of Millet Manuscript Library established by renowned Ottoman intellectual Ali Emîrî Efendi. Subsequently, with the funding provided by the Getty Foundation, one of the leading foundations in the world, a new undertaking has been initiated to facilitate the cataloging and conservation of the inventoried manuscripts of Millet Library. 

The culture and arts initiatives of Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation continues through Pera Museum and İstanbul Research Institute, opened in 2005 and 2007, respectively.