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In late Following the July 2026, 2026 launch of the Turkey Diyanet Foundation launched its Foundation’s “Two People One Life” initiative, awarding a the program continued to award 500,000‑lira dowry package packages to a couple in Kütahya couples across the country. On 29 July, Ali Demir and providing dowry sets to another couple Ratibe Nur Zenger were married in Mersin. The program, which Tavşanlı, Kütahya, after the foundation received tens of thousands of more than 42,000 applications nationwide, aims to reinforce family bonds through material nationwide. In Mersin’s Mezitli district, volunteers prepared a dowry set for 21‑year‑old Elif Ceren and moral assistance. A week later, in early her fiancé Çağrı Alparslan Bulut, with local muftis presenting a Turkish flag and Quran. The project’s first regional implementation took place on 7 August 2026, in Adıyaman, where Gizem Akgün and Mehmet Emin Çetin were married in the provincial mufti’s office, marking the inaugural on‑the‑ground support for young families there. Meanwhile, the Mehir Charity Foundation organized held a ceremony in Konya on 5 August, attended by provincial mufti Prof. Dr. Ali Öge and dispatched foundation chair Mustafa Özdemir, to dispatch trucks containing wedding supplies worth carrying roughly 80‑90 million lira worth of wedding supplies (about 70 goods, 30 000 pieces) to engaged couples in Syria. The aid, part of a program running since 1996, was presented as supporting Officials linked the aid to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 2026‑2035 “Family and Population Decade,” extending Turkish family‑support efforts beyond its borders. Both snapshots show Turkish NGOs implementing marriage‑support initiatives domestically underscoring Turkey’s domestic and abroad, aligned with a government‑backed decade focused on promoting cross‑border efforts to promote family formation.