"The Symposium on Philanthropy in Anatolia through the Ages was organized jointly by three research centers of Koðc University, namely the Suna & çInan Kiraðc Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED), the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM). The symposium was held ... in the framework of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Vehbi Koðc Foundation"--Foreword