Evkaf, a 450-year-old institution, was founded in 1571 with the arrival of the Ottomans on the island. This year, exactly 450 years have passed since its establishment. Evkaf, which is the oldest and most rooted institution of our country, can now carry out activities in line with its founding purposes, namely to serve the society.

İbrahim Benter, General Manager of Cyprus Foundations Administration, made statements on the subject and the agenda in the live broadcast of Cyprus TV, which he attended by phone.

Evkaf is actually a very powerful institution. But the British administration lost its function in time. It is no longer useful to society.

After we took over from the British administration, we couldn't do it either.

Today, foundations have started to return to their essence. We can work in line with the aims of the establishment by serving the society," he said.

Upon a question, he said, "We leased a very valuable piece of land in Girne to Girne American University, and the university started the construction of a hospital. Although the hospital construction was mostly completed, it was handed over to us.

We also gave up a monthly rent of 20000 STG (26 million TL in total) and gave this place as a gift to the relevant ministry to be a pandemic hospital. This handover job was done in July. At that time, they told me that it would be completed in 3 months," and stated that the Girne pandemic hospital was not completed.

Stating that incompetent people are assigned to institutions due to their partisanship work, that some civil servants who are recruited regardless of their merit are both incompetent and not given training, there are problems as a result, Benter also drew attention to the ambiguity of which planning is being made, even though we have a planning department.