Under the auspices of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, İZKÜLTÜR Inc. is a commercial joint-stock company established with the aim of organizing educational, informative, and promotional events in the fields of culture, arts, literature, and tourism services.

İZKÜLTÜR Inc. set out with the goal of highlighting İzmir’s historical and cultural heritage, shaped by its 8,500-year-old past as a port city. It aims to organize events and projects both domestically and internationally that showcase this heritage. The company also seeks to reflect İzmir’s historical texture—marked by traces of many ancient civilizations—through cultural activities in sculpture, cinema, theater, music, film, ballet, opera, performing arts, and many other areas.

The company was founded to carry out all necessary activities related to cultural and artistic products, events, and services; to encourage domestic and international tourism through promotional efforts; and to conduct all kinds of advertising and promotional services in open and closed spaces, through media outlets and in all other platforms. It also has the authority to establish, manage, or have others manage the necessary facilities for these purposes.

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