BURA (Boğaziçi University Reunion Association) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization founded by Boğaziçi University graduates on 20th October, 2003. The main objective of BURA is to organize social, cultural, sportive, professional, personal, ethical, and scientific activities for Boğaziçi University graduates and students and to provide a platform for sharing experiences and exchanging good practices at national and international levels. There are a number of committees in BURA meeting regularly and they aim:

• To enhance civil society development and demonstrate youth participation in the society.
• To promote the exchange of ideas and experiences, mutual understanding, and equal rights and opportunities among people.

Some of these committees are:

·        Foreign affairs commission with related EU Youth project group & Translation group.

·        Social activities commission

·        Institutional relations commission

·        Human resources commission

·        Press & public relations commission

·        Project commission

·        Internal organizations commission

·        Budget and financial affairs commission

In line with these aims, main activities of BURA are:

• Organization of training, workshops, meetings, seminars, debates, conferences, campaigns with primary goal to support development of civil society and involvement of the youth in the above processes.
• Regional and international cooperation with non-governmental organizations dealing with the same and/or similar issues and working together on problem solving issues which have an essential meaning for the region.

In consequence, we can summarize BURA’s objectives and philosophy as follows:

For an individual who obeys the Decree, ‘iqra’ (the first Decree of Islam with meanings of "read, think, evaluate" everything), to be able to remain as the most honorable of the created can only be possible with their intention to walk on the right path as well as their passion for this, then their making good, beneficial and useful deeds and their will to equip themselves with the morals.