i THE NATIONAL YOUTH AND SPORTS POLICY DOCUMENT ...

The Prime Ministry, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Internal Affairs,the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of European Union, Local Authorities and Non-Governmental Organizations.5. 8. CULTURE AND ARTThe number and quality of artistic and cultural activities and the interest in artisticactivities and the awareness of cultural values are among the insurances of a healthy andstrong social structure. The way for our country to achieve this structure is possible onlythrough young people. Bringing up a young generation who is aware of art and cultural valuesis the insurance of our country to look to the future with confidence.It is very important for young people to gain cultural and artistic consciousness, notonly by starting from the popular ones, but by focusing on their own history and nationalculture; to have accurate knowledge of our own cultural values, customs, traditional fields ofart in order to bring up generations that will protect their country, history and thus their ownfuture.Turkey has come a long way in the cultural and artistic sense in recent years as seen inthe statistics in several areas such as the numbers of museum visitors, the number of peoplebenefiting from libraries, circulations of newspapers and magazines, the number of screenedtheatre plays and audiences, released local films and the number of their audiences etc.However, it is necessary to increase ongoing activities in order to enable young peoplehave access to these activities and occupations, to discover talented young people and to bringup individuals with artistic sensitivity. Furthermore, it is an obligation to increase ongoingwork in order not to forget our traditional arts and cultural values continuing for centuries inAnatolia and to ensure that young people show more interest in our traditional culture.POLICIES1. Acquainting young people with our history and culturalinheritance in a better wayTargets• To conduct joint work in order to promote historically and culturally importantplaces and areas included in the List of UNESCO World Heritages, historical artefacts,architectural masterworks, museums and important historical figures in our history amongyoung people.• To present our national and moral values to young people in a more efficientway.31