Sevim And Necdet Kent Library, Cunda Island, Ayvalık, Balıkesir, Turkey  

After many years of dereliction, the windmill and church were restored with the financial and moral support of Mr. Rahmi M. Koç, thereby saving these monuments to our cultural heritage for posterity. The island of Alibey thus became the proud possessor of a major new library on 7th August 2007.

This library, which is operated by the Rahmi M. Koç Museology and Culture Foundation, is named after retired ambassador Mr. Necdet H. Kent and his wife. Mr Kent apparently said, when his eyesight began failing in old age: ‘I am not so sorry that I cannot see, only that I cannot read.’ Mr. Kent’s son, Mr. Muhtar Kent, has donated a complete set of more than 1,300 of his late father’s volumes to this library.

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