As people living in Turkey, we are the owners and protectors of thousands of years of cultural heritage. As Safranbolians, we are in a much more fortunate situation. We live in the service of one of the most important cultural heritages of the world.
We are a generation that grew up in this cultural heritage. We are in a unity of feeling, thinking and behavior created together with this city.
A society can contribute to modern civilization and the formation and enrichment of universal cultural values to the extent that it preserves the characteristics of its traditional structure. The architecture of Safranbolu is the result of thousands of years of cultural accumulation in Anatolia.
Our field of work is to identify the intellectual products that develop from the past to the future and to deliver them to the society.
We live in the eternal present amidst cultural accumulations that extend from the ancients to the infinite present. Welcome home, world…
Architect Elif Köse
Mayor of Safranbolu
WORLD HERITAGE MAGAZINE ISSUE 1 (APRIL 2023)