Convivia and communities in Turkey

Adana for heritage food Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Bilici Pırıl

To determine products that are rarely used and about to go extinctin and around the city of Adana; spread and preserve their biodiversity and bring local producers and consumers together. The aim is to increase awareness of these products and pass down the "Slow Food" concept and philosophy.

Adana

Cappadocia Sustainable Gastronomy and Tourism Alliance Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Aktan Kaan

We are a group of academicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, producers and gastronomy enthusiasts. We admire the gastronomic heritage of Cappadocia. We aim to revive the forgotten recipes, produce and gastronomy traditions of the region, create multiplier effect by combining sustainable tourism and gastronomy experience, pass this knowledge to future generations by also leveraging resouce of Cappadocia University Culinary School.

Conservation Of Mut’s Biodiversity and Ecology Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Şentürk Diden

We came together as a group from Mut to join the International Slow Food Movement. Our aim is to carry out projects that will raise awareness about good, clean and fair food production at all levels in our town. Mut is located in an ecogically rich landscape. Its geographical location lends itself to very rich fertile lands. Majority of the city is made up of nomads who settled and their families. Traditionally, the people of Mut breed cattle, make cheese and weave rugs for a living. The Sertavul Pass on the Taurus mountain is 32 km away from Mut. Therefore, especially in the spring and summer season, everyone from the bigger cities passes through our town to reach the Mediterranean Sea.Our main goal is to remind locals of the rich vegetation of Mut and instill the Slow Food values into the culture. And to ensure that the values of Mut are an inspiration to the people passing through our city and purchasing our products.

Mut

Earth Market Foça Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Ömer Atilla

Our goal is to protect the ecosystem with the "Phokaia" texture and to develop agricultural activities with natural farming methods and to keep the local gastronomy culture alive. To promote natural eating habits among local people and to introduce "good, clean and fair" products to consumers.

Foça

Earth Market Tarsus Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Fuat Togo

Established for the purpose of clean, good, fair local food for our society. ln our one year preserved community experiences, we had the chance to evaluate the mutual demands of the producers and the consumers.

Tarsus

Ibradi sustainable and ecological conservation Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Baykal F Gülsima

Traditional food production methods, husbandry and ecology of the area are endangered as people tend to use faster ways of production and modern agricultural practices involving chemicals. Our objective is to identify the traditional ecological practices and revive them.

Ibradi, Antalya

Karaburun Food, Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Çakir Rezan

1) Promote local foods, support local producers and document the traditional products and dishes 2) Follow Slow Travel movement and share the ideas with the existing small tourism business, Agricultural Cooperatives, Youth of City Council and village women. 3) Raise public awareness on the philosophy of Slow Food, biodiversity, ecological issues and problems of Karaburun Peninsula and local seeds and crops

Karaburun

Kastamonu Earth Market Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Himmetoğlu Nazan

To preserve the local culture of agriculture and food, of local cuisine and culinary traditions and to pass them on to the next generations.

Kastamonou

Mugla – Food & Travel Sustainability Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Tetik Gurkan

Muğla is one of the richest Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The most popular summer places of our country are in Mugla. Like Bodrum, Marmaris,, Fethiye. It is central to Yacht tourism. Mugla, an essential place in the region, determines the agricultural products and food species in the area. Previously utmost request to above mention towns for vacation from domestic and worldwide tourist, caused migration from the center to the seaside towns. people left behind their village for work. Therefore products and food culture began to disappear. We as academicians, tourism professionals, and chefs, will research and protects our heritage. Bring it back to our kitchens.

Mugla

Mugla Earth Market Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Tetik Gürkan

Transfer of traditional cuisine from generation to generation, to prevent the spread of the Fast-Food-culture, to ensure that everyone has access to healthy, clean and fair food and organising festivals and activities in the region.

Mugla

Ölmez Ağaç, Edremit Körfezi Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Mevlat Alen

Conservation of biocultural olive heritage and mitigating impacts of climate crisis on olive tree landscapes and producer communities to ensure food security and resilience via enhancing mutual dialogue among the network of olive farmers, olive oil producers, activists, chefs, and teachers within the ‘Edremit Körfez’ Area in North Aegean Region, Turkey.

Ayvalık

Preservation of food heritage of Tarsus Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Yasmina Şelfun Lokmanoğlu

Celebrate the wide variety of produce that grows on the fertile lands nestles between Taurus mountains and the Mediterranean sea, by exploring and showcasing the rich and creative ways the population of this region has found an expression for them in their cuisine.

Tarsus

Preserving the culture of local food of Kastamonu Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Kirbas Gülsen

Preserving, sustaining and promoting the rich natural and agricultural heritage of Kastamonu, the nutritional, tradidions, products, local flavours and culinary culture that have been developed in connection with these and dates back a long time, and their utilization for the benefit of the social and economic development of Kastamonu. To ensure the cleanliness and originality of local agricultural products and to transfer them to future generations are the general objectives of the community.

Kastamonu

Slow Fish Mersin save the Mediterrenean Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Biçer Uçar Ezgi

Raise awareness about clean, good and fair seafood in our region; preserve our local seafood species; educate small-scale farmers and make them natural protectors of the ecosystem; raise awareness about different recipes that make artful use of neglected species and hence prevent overconsumption of few species

Mersin

Supporting small producers of Narlıdere Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Ilke Engin

As the local municipality sets its goals for making Narlidere a gastronomy precint, we will strive to make it the center for good, clean and fair food. we commit ourselves to safeguarding the environment. Our goals will include defending the biodiversity of land and the sea, particularly supporting and promoting the fishing near the shores of Nardilere.

Narlidere

Sustainable Food Bursa Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Işıkman Gökhan

With its geographical feast from sea to mountains, its history in agriculture, its presence as capital city of the Ottoman Empire and its gastronomic structure combinig multitude of cultures, Bursa is a city that has a wide spectrum of cultures. Our aim is to detect and help develop the viable aspects of Bursa with the good, clean and fair disciplines of Slow Food. We work to get these detected values into the Ark of Taste list, prevent traditional values from disappearing and carry them into the future.

Bursa

The Sustainability of Nigde’s Agricultural Diversity Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: ŞAHİNER ÖKE BAHAR

- We aim to protect and increase the awarness of dried beans, white cabbage, apples, potatoes, rye, nectarines, cherries, tomatoes, peppers, chickpeas, barley and grape varieties produced in the fertile lands of Nigde, which is an agricultural city. - We aim to support sustainable local gastronomy by researching and recording the traditional culinary culture and traditional cooking methods of Nigde.

Nigde

Youth Adana, Halet Çambel Urban Garden Turkey Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Gürani Karatekin Esin

Our common concern is our future. Food problems, climate changes and their consequences. A sustainable future. Primarily, taking action by focusing on all kinds of issues that will benefit the collective; which involves all living beings, the environment, the planet.

Adana