aircraft to the Turkish Air Force. In the 1980s, the Turkish Navy took delivery of its first McDonnell Douglas Harpoon antiship missiles. Turkey’s Peace Eagle program, when deliveries are complete, will fly four of the Boeing 737-based Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft. These aircraft provide airborne surveillance and command, control and communications for tactical and air defense forces. Much of Boeing’s corporate citizenship work in Turkey today involves health and human services. Boeing Turkey is active in the field of neonatal care, supplying incubators for premature babies, as well as other equipment, to children’s hospitals. Seven hospitals currently benefit from the program. Boeing also is involved in edu- cational programs in Turkey. The company funds an early learning program in Eastern Turkey that involves parents in getting their 5-year-old children ready for school. Boeing also sponsors two archeological digs in Turkey. In fact, the Catalhoyuk excavation in Konya—a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site—was originally sponsored by Boeing before the company opened its Ankara office in 1999. “This may be the oldest site where humans stopped being hunter-gatherers and settled into villages,” Pepin said. “This year it became a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi- zation) heritage site, which is a great honor.” In addition, Boeing supports the Kaman- Kalehoyuk Excavation outside of Ankara, along with a related archeological museum and laboratory facilities. The company also provides funding to assist the Turkish university students who go there each summer during the digging season. Boeing for sending her to the camp. She corporate citizenship program has been Boeing Turkey’s cultural contributions was from a school Boeing had rebuilt in one of caring and lasting relationships. For include supporting a range of music festi- an Eastern Turkey town called Kars, which example, Boeing has returned to schools vals, with repertoire ranging from classical to gets about 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow it has helped in the past and upgraded contemporary. It has funded performances each year. The girl mentioned that her Boeing-built computer labs. at the International Istanbul Music Festival trip to Space Camp was the first time “One of the most remarkable things since 1992, and supports the Ankara Music she had ever seen the ocean. about Turkey is the warmth and hospitality Festival and the Ankara Jazz Festival. “Here’s a little girl who lives in a little of its people,” Pepin said. “Our support is Boeing looks to the future by serving as town in the mountains,” Pepin said. “And rooted in the feeling that we are truly part a founding co-sponsor of Space Camp maybe, because she learned about space of the community.” n Turkey, located in Izmir on the coast of the and saw the ocean, she’ll be inspired to william.j.seil@boeing.com Aegean Sea. For more than 10 years, the study hard, go to college and do something company has been sending students, ages 7 special with her life. We might have just PhOTOS: (Clockwise from top) The to 16, to participate in the camp’s programs. changed the life of that youngster, and Boeing-supported Catalhoyuk Research Space-themed activities include virtual flight, that’s what it’s all about.” and Excavation project in Konya; students from Izzet Latif Aras Primary School in sky observation, a space shuttle mission, and Pepin has long noted that the first time Ankara visit Boeing’s Turkey office last making and launching a single-stage rocket. you help someone, it’s because you want November; the opening concert at the Pepin was especially touched when to help. When you continue to help them, 26th International Ankara Music Festival a young girl came up to him to thank it’s because you really care. Boeing Turkey’s in April 2009. GTC COMMuNICATIONS CONSulTANCy 44 BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012
Frontiers October 2012 Issue
To see the actual publication please follow the link above