Who We Are?

We established the Buradayız Hatay Association with solidarity under the leadership of Attorney Mehmet Ali Gümüş for the reconstruction of Hatay after the earthquake on February 06. With the Buradayız Hatay Association, which we established on March 13, 2023, we aim to support everyone living in Hatay and affected by the earthquake. We are from Hatay as the founders. We are a team in love with the history, architecture, streets, culture, people and life of our city.
Our Vision
After the devastation in our ancient city of Hatay, we are here to rise again in every aspect of life with the healing power of solidarity and hope, to reach a day when the earthquake is no longer remembered as a catastrophe.
Our Mission
- To carry out efforts to address the educational, social, and cultural disadvantages that arise after a disaster.
- To contribute to creating a concept of the city where young people are participants and have a voice.
- To create spaces that contribute to the production and sale of goods by tradespeople, small businesses, and individual producers, and to support them.
- To bring the problems in Hatay to the public agenda and to establish cooperation with public institutions, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations for the resolution of these issues.
- To support the creation of green spaces so that the people of Hatay can access their right to clean air.
- To create spaces in Hatay where cultural and artistic activities can take place.
- To promote social solidarity and mutual aid following the earthquake.
Our Logo’s History


He was here 3,000 years ago. Who was he? He was the king of Pattina-Unqi, one of the post-Hittite Anatolian states and he lived in the place we call Antakya today.
Our great-grandfather “ŞUP Pİ LU Lİ U MA”.
Tell us:
It is fertile here, if you work hard, you will be rewarded; I have been holding this spike in my hand for 3000 years for nothing. Of course, if necessary, I am not afraid to fight for my home, my motherland, my shelter. I am not dependent on anyone, I both produce and fight. I put two lions snarling angrily at each other on my wrist to say that everything exists with its opposite. But the bodies of the lions were one and they were more than brothers. So you have to fight with yourself before others, you have to find the enemy in your body, you have to know yourself. If you don’t believe me, look at the spirals inside my big hat. I am not a straight line; I came from infinity and I am going to infinity. True, this city has collapsed on me many times, but each time I overcame the obstacles with love, I was reborn, sometimes expanding from the inside out, sometimes from the outside in, returning to the essence. Yes, I was surprised, I blinked my eyes at the sight I saw. I had not left this city like this, but our hope, like us, comes from the infinite and expands outward, unstoppable. We died again, but we are still here Hatay! We are in our essence, we are in the queen of the East and we will raise the light again with all its colors from the easternmost part of the Mediterranean.