ISTE-TÖMER was founded in order to develop and apply learning and teaching methods and techniques for teaching Turkish as a foreign language, develop materials and provide existing materials, carry out interdisciplinary studies to provide and support language learning, investigate all the old and new branches of the Turkish language in which it is spoken and written in history and today, carry out and support cultural works such as language, history and literature works created by Turkish communities in different geographies, and studies and practices regarding the language relations of Turkish culture with surrounding cultures.