
The suspended bread tradition is a social solidarity practice in which individuals prepay for extra loaves of bread to bakeries, allowing those with insufficient economic means to obtain these loaves free of charge. This practice is associated with the principles of privacy and the preservation of human dignity, as it occurs without direct contact between the donor and the recipient. Suspended bread is one of the contemporary manifestations of the mutual aid ethos that was widespread in Ottoman
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The Ottoman Money Endowment System is a type of endowment established through the donation of cash capital, in which the income generated by lending this capital at specified rates was allocated to finance social, religious, cultural, and charitable services. These endowments typically operated at the neighborhood level, assuming functions such as meeting the basic needs of the poor, covering the expenses of educational institutions, maintaining structures like soup kitchens, mosques, and madras
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Denizcan Taşci

The Green Card is a social assistance program that allows citizens who are not covered by social security in Türkiye and who do not have the means to pay to benefit from health services with state support. The system, which was put into practice with the Law No. 3816 on the State Coverage of Treatment Expenses of Citizens Who Do Not Have the Power to Pay by Granting a Green Card dated June 18, 1992, covers the inpatient and outpatient treatment expenses of low-income individuals. The regulation
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Yunus Emre Sağlam