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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
08
INTRODUCTION
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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HEALTH
General Health ................................................................... 47
Basic Health........................................................................ 48
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WATER SANITATION AND
HYGIENE (WASH)
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND
CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE
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OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND
SERVICES
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ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
Economic Infrastructure and Services Sector .................. 60
Transportation and Storage................................................ 60
Energy Production and Distribution................................... 61
Banking and Finance........................................................... 62
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PRODUCTION SECTOR
Distribution of Production Sector Assistance by Sub-Sector... 66
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries .......................................... 66
Industry, Mining and Construction............................................. 69
Trade and Tourism...................................................................... 71
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HUMANITARIAN AID
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ASSISTANCE TO SYRIAN PEOPLE
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TURKISH NGO ASSISTANCE
Social Services.................................................................... 88
Education............................................................................. 90
Health.................................................................................. 90
Water and Sanitation........................................................... 91
TURKISH DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE REPORT 2015
FOREWORD
In line with its commitment to provide at least 200 million USD annually, as made
public by our Honorable President Recep Tayyip ERDOAN, Turkey has donated
456 million to the LDCs in 2015. Indeed, between 2011 and 2015, Turkey has
donated over 1.5 billion USD to the LDCs far exceeding what it has pledged.
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TKA) plays an essential role in the
realization and reporting of Turkeys aid for development. TKA undertakes the role of
coordinating development cooperation efforts between all related public bodies and
institutions, and works diligently with its 56 Program Coordination Offices across 54
countries to more effectively reach out to those in need and to directly supervise projects
and programs under implementation.
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With each passing day, the architecture of international development cooperation gets more and
more complex in terms of both the agents involved and practices deployed. At the same time, the
responsibilities and obligations of global agents, especially the developed affluent nations, has been
rising with regard to humanitarian aid due to escalating problems around the world.
In 2015, Turkey, taking full account of its responsibility, reached out to over 150 countries in the spirit
of justice, fairness and truthfulness and lent the helping hand of the Turkish state to those in need
regardless of culture, religion or ethnic background.
Our country, taking strength and inspiration from its civilizational values, has been advocating a
stance that demands global justice for the problems of the contemporary world. In this respect,
Turkeys projects, meant to address real and immediate problems of people around the world, are
praised by the international community.
Recent crises reflect how mainstream models of development aid, being so implemented in narrow
frameworks which tend to be unfair, patronizing and mechanistic have caused existing problems
to become deeper and more chronic rather than ensuring welfare and peace to the people. Turkey,
a fierce opponent of such models, has developed its own unique framework called the Turkish
Development Assistance Model. It incorporates cooperation with the establishment of ties of
affection through concrete projects delivered in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and several other brother
countries in light of principles which prioritize people.
Our country, in rejecting models which reproduce unequal global power structures, offers all its
experience and know-how to brother countries and friendly nations around the world, regardless of
distance, in order to increase their human and institutional capacity, especially in terms of education
and health, through projects in cultural, economic and business realms.
The Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) was hosted by Turkey in Istanbul
in 2011. Between 2011 and 2015, Turkey has donated over 1.5 billion USD to the Least Developed
Countries (LDCs) far exceeding the 200 million USD committed annually as made public by our
Honorable President Recep Tayyip ERDOAN. In 2015 alone, this number was 456 million USD .
Unfortunately, the war and humanitarian crisis in Syria, raging since 2011, are still far from being
resolved. Our country has not remained indifferent to the crisis, and has mobilized its resources
to ease the pain of the displaced Syrian people. Syria was the biggest recipient of Turkish Official
Development Assistance (ODA) in 2015, as was the case for the three consecutive years prior.
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TKA) plays an essential role in the realization
and reporting of Turkeys aid for development. TKA undertakes the role of coordinating development
cooperation efforts between all related public bodies and institutions, and works diligently with its 56
Program Coordination Offices across 54 countries to more effectively reach out to those in need and
to directly supervise projects and programs under implementation.
I would like to congratulate all public institutions and bodies, beginning with TKA, for their meaningful
efforts in helping extend the reach of development cooperation projects around the world and to
thank all TKA personnel for the preparation of this years Turkish Development Assistance Report.
Veysi KAYNAK
Deputy Prime Minister
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PREFACE
Turkey ranked as the second largest donor country in the world in 2015 with a total
ODA of 3.2 billion USD. Moreover, Turkey has been declared the most generous
donor country in the world in terms of its GNI/humanitarian aid ratio.
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Turkey has been working without any expectations of visibility or reward to deliver development and
humanitarian assistance to those in need throughout the world, while at the same time struggling to
liberate global development assistance from being dominated by pragmatist realpolitik mentalities.
It thus advocates a high-spirited perspective based on global justice.
Despite the departure of formal colonialism, its clear that its repercussions are still at work as
seen in the unfair global relationships and current disequilibrium between developed and developing
nations. That several geographies such as Africa and the Middle East, possessing the most abundant
resources in the world, have been suffering severe humanitarian, political and economic catastrophes,
is not a mere coincidence.
Turkey has been putting into practice a development assistance approach which does not focus solely
on national income levels of countries and does not regard them as underdeveloped as regards to
their low national income, but rather shows respect to their deep-rooted cultures and values and
concentrates on their needs. Turkey defends the right of the just use of local wealth in the host
country for its own people, and regards the opposite as the continuation of exploitation.
Today around 220 million children and youth are deprived of access to education a basic human
right. Over 60 million people live as refugees and over 25,000 people die every day due to starvation
and related conditions. Turkey, despite being only the 18th largest economy in the world, has not
remained silent in the face of these humanitarian crises and has become the most generous country
in terms of humanitarian assistance, whereas several developed nations tend to turn a blind eye to
this burden.
Further, our country has continued to rise as a development assistance donor with increasing pace
each year. Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Turkey, which was 85 million USD in
2002, has reached 3.919 billion USD in 2015, representing a forty-five-fold increase.
In this regard, public bodies and institutions, as well as Turkish NGOs have continued to work hard to
further advance Turkeys development cooperation efforts in 2015.
As a result of this, Turkey ranked as the second largest donor country in the world in 2015 with a total
ODA of 3.2 billion USD. Moreover, Turkey has been declared the most generous country in the world
in terms of its ratio of GNI to humanitarian aid.
ODA provided by Turkey has increased by 9% in 2015 as compared to the preceding year. This is
well above the average increase of 6.9% in ODA among OECD/DAC member countries. Moreover,
if development assistance provided by DAC members to refugees and asylum seekers in their own
countries is excluded, the rate of increase would descend to 1.7%.
On the occasion of the release of the Turkish Development Assistance Report of 2015, I hereby
congratulate and thank TKA, which undertakes an essential role in the implementation of numerous
development cooperation projects in different sectors and across a wide range of countries; all
related public institutions and bodies along with their personnel; NGOs and their personnel who
strive to reach out to across the world wherever help is needed regardless of distance; private sector
representatives who support us in our efforts to maintain development cooperation and humanitarian
assistance efforts; and last but not least, the TKA Strategy Development Department which has
worked diligently to collect our countrys development and humanitarian assistance data and prepare
this years report.
Serdar AM, Ph D.
President of TKA
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EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
T
urkeys Total Development Assistance USD in 2015, is divided into three subcategories:
(TDA) for 2015 has amounted to a total 2.738 billion USD of this was for Emergency Aid, 1.351
of 5.105 billion USD. This development billion USD was classified as Development Aid and
assistance, which went to over 150 243 million USD was designated for Concessional
countries, was applied in numerous Loans.
different sectors. At the request of recipient
countries, it was provided by Turkish NGOs and Multilateral aid, on the other hand, is the total amount
private establishments, and by over 70 Turkish of membership fees and contribution payments to
public bodies under the principles of the authentic international organizations, and amounted to 73
Turkish Development Assistance Model which million USD in 2015.
prioritizes people, respect for local sensitivities and
Private Flows, a subcategory of Turkeys TDA, is
is aimed at ensuring lifelong opportunities without
made up of aid provided by NGOs, which was 476
any expectations of reward.
million USD, and direct aid to developing countries
Of this 2015 TDA, 4.032 billion USD comprised from Turkish private sector actors, which amounted
of Official Flows provided by public bodies and to 597 million USD. Of the 476 million USD donated
institutions, while Private Flows amounted to 1.073 by NGOs, 336 million USD was for Emergency Aid,
billion USD. while 140 million USD was classified as Development
ODA constituted 3.919 billion USD of Official Flows, Aid.
while the remaining 113 million USD fell in the In 2015, Turkey ranked as the second largest donor
category of Other Official Flows. In that vein, 3.846
country in terms of Emergency and Humanitarian
billion USD of ODA, which was in total 3.919 billion
Aid with a total of 3.2 billion USD spent, and as a
USD in 2015, was bilateral aid, and the remaining 73
result, gained the status of being the most generous
million USD was multilateral aid.
donor country with a ratio of 0.37% of Emergency
Bilateral aid, which made up a total of 3.846 billion and Humanitarian Aid to national GNI.
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SUMMARY TABLE OF TURKEYS TOTAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN 2015
(Million US Dollars)
Other Official Flows Official Development Assistance (ODA) NGO Flows Private Sector Flows
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TURKEY THE
MOST GENEROUS
Country in the World
In 2015, Turkey, with an aid amounting to 3.2 billion USD, ranked
second in the world for the provision of humanitarian aid, and
earned the title of The Most Generous Donor country in the light
of its GNI to humanitarian aid ratio of 0.37%.
In 2015, Turkey donated
3.919 billion USD
in Official Development Assistance -
a 9% increase from the
previous year.
Figures representing the Turkish Development Assistance components for the years 2014-2015 are shown in Graph 1.
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This nursery, located in the city of Tivaouane in Western Senegal was renovated and was able to resume its services.
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Of Turkeys 3.919
billion USD in Official
Development
Assistance, 3.845
billion USD was in the
form of bilateral aid.
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Total
Support to Non-Governmental Organizations
Project / Program Type of Aid
Technical Cooperation
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Total
2014 2015
Middle East
South and Central Asia
Asia Regional
Africa
Europe
East Asia
Oceania
353,1
256,6
25,5
6,05
101,3
169,3
2.500,4
2.988,4
0,53
0,17
4,5
19,0
133,8
222,9
3.502,4
3.845,9
383,3
183,4
Kyrgyzstan
Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Macedonia
Palestine
Albania
Sudan
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Contributions to UN Institutions
Contributions to the World Bank Group
Contributions to Regional Development Agencies
Other
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3.919
ODA in 2015.
billion USD in
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United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
Sweden
Netherlands
Canada
Norway
Turkey
Italy
Swiss
Australia
Denmark
South Korea
Belgium
Spain
Finland
Austria
Ireland
Poland
New Zealand
Luxembourg
Portugal
Greece
Czech Rep.
Slovakia
Slovenia
Graph 10: Net ODA/GNI Ratios of OECD / DAC Countries and Turkey Iceland
(2015; %) (UN Target: 0.7%)
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Turkeys Sectoral Distribution of Bilateral Official
Development Assistance in 2015
Examination of Turkeys 2015 Bilateral Official Development Assistance by sector reveals that 780 million USD was spent in
the Social Infrastructure and Services Sector, 90 million USD went to the Economic Infrastructure and Services Sector, 23
million USD to the Manufacturing Sector and 4 million USD went towards Multi-Sectoral activities.
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Graph 12: Sectoral Ratios of Turkeys Bilateral Official Development Assistance (2015; %)
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Graph 14: Direct Investments Made in Developing Countries by the Turkish Private Sector
(2010-2015; Million USD)
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Total
Somalia
Djibouti 3,9
Myanmar 3,7
Bangladesh 2,4
Niger
Afghanistan
Gambia
Mauritania
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GUINEA 0,54 V. ASIA TOTAL 3.420,36
GUINEA BISSAU 0,23 V.A. MIDDLE EAST TOTAL 2.988,40
KENYA 0,19 IRAN 0,17
LESOTHO 0,02 IRAQ 5,69
LIBERIA 1,27 JORDAN 0,79
LEBANON 0,80
MADAGASCAR 0,05
SYRIA 2.694,02
MALI 0,71
WEST BANK AND GAZA 29,83
MAURETANIA 12,70
YEMEN 0,79
MOZAMBIQUE 0,04
MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL 256,31
NAMIBIA 0,65
NIGER 8,90 V.B. SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA TOTAL 256,60
NIGERIA 0,06 AFGHANISTAN 56,78
AZERBAIJAN 8,76
SENEGAL 7,54
BANGLADESH 2,41
SEYCHELLES 0,21
BHUTAN 0,08
SIERRA LEONE 0,60
GEORGIA 3,69
SOMALIA 314,82
INDIA 0,27
SOUTH AFRICA 0,40 KAZAKHSTAN 24,44
SOUTH SUDAN 0,72 KYRGYZSTAN 98,36
SUDAN 21,96 MALDIVES 0,01
SWAZILAND 0,02 MYANMAR 3,67
TANZANIA 0,35 NEPAL 0,55
TOGO 0,09 PAKISTAN 1,93
UGANDA 0,31 SRI LANKA 0,07
ZAMBIA 0,07 TAJIKISTAN 0,70
SOUTH SAHARA REGIONAL 1,60 TURKMENISTAN 3,18
UZBEKISTAN 4,65
II.C. AFRICA REGIONAL 32,47
CENTRAL ASIA REGIONAL 10,42
SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL 0,25
III. AMERICA TOTAL 19,01
SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA REGIONAL 36,38
III.A. NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA TOTAL 0,67
CUBA 0,25 V.C. FAR EAST TOTAL 6,05
CAMBODIA 0,16
MEXICO 0,09
CHINA 0,44
PANAMA 0,13
INDONESIA 0,17
NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA REGIONAL 0,20
DEM. PEOPLES REP. OF KOREA 0,09
MALAYSIA 0,24
III.B. SOUTH AMERICA TOTAL 1,49
MONGOLIA 3,07
ARGENTINA 0,02 PHILIPPINES 0,80
BRAZIL 0,15 THAILAND 0,93
CHILE 0,04 VIETNAM 0,05
COLOMBIA 0,34 FAR EAST REGIONAL 0,10
EKVADOR 0,05 V.D. ASIA REGIONAL 169,31
PERU 0,12
SURINAM 0,03 I. EUROPE 222,92
SOUTH AMERICA REGIONAL 0,74 II. AFRICA 183,44
III.C. AMERICA REGIONAL TOTAL 16,85 III. AMERICA 19,01
IV. OCEANIA 0,17
IV. OCEANIA TOTAL 0,17 V. ASIA 3.420,36
VANUATU 0,17 WORLD TOTAL 3.845,90
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SOCIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
AND SERVICES
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A significant proportion
of the resources used in the
projects and activities carried out
by our country have been utilized
in the Social Infrastructure and
Services Sector. This includes
sub-sectors such as education,
strengthening administrative and
civil infrastructure, health, water
and sanitation.
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1000 students received stationery and educational materials in the Karaganda city of Kazakhstan
Education
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EDUCATION
Education, which is an effective way of raising living been carrying out numerous projects with the objectives
standards by strengthening individual capacities and of building new and modern education institutions,
creating strong-willed and confident citizens for inclusive refurbishing old schools, providing technological
societies, is an essential element of development equipment and training material, and training teachers,
assistance. The education sector is a primary target of administrative personnel and trainers.
assistance provided by Turkey.
Within this framework, some 73 schools were either built
In order to extend the reach of education in cities, or renovated, and 67 schools were given equipment in
rural areas and hard-to-reach mountainous regions of 2015.
underdeveloped and developing countries, Turkey has
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PROJECTS and
ACTIVITIES
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GENERAL
EDUCATION
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BASIC
EDUCATION
Kazakhstan Kul Hoca Ahmed Yesevi Learning and Tashkent Turkish Primary School and Secondary School,
Wisdom Foundations Vocational High School and which opened 1993 and which currently serves 180
Preschool Renovation students.
Kul Hoca Ahmed Yesevi Learning and Wisdom Foundations Project to Support Nursery of Ardhmeria
Vocational High School and Preschool buildings in the Cultural Society
Talgar town of Almaty were renovated. The vocational
school has 6 classrooms and serves 130 students. The Materials, including furniture (i.e. shelves, tables,
preschool has 3 classrooms which provide for 25 students cupboards, cabinets, counters, teachers desk, restroom
each. stalls, letter-shaped furniture) and toys (toys for indoor
use, training tools, construction toys such as cubes,
Uzbekistan - Tashkent Turkish Primary School and
mosaic toys, castles, educative toys, sports materials such
Secondary School Renovation and Refurbishing Project
as a basketball hoop, football goalpost, balls, bowling
All required equipment and material was provided for equipment, pedal cars and bicycles) to enhance the service
refurnishing, refurbishing, repairing and renovating the quality of the nursery, which is managed by the Ardhmeria
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SECONDARY
EDUCATION
Refurnishing of Sheh Shamia High School in Shkodra, six different vocational high schools in Istanbul under the
Albania Ministry of National Education. Study visits to the schools
in Kazakhstan by experts from the ministry and TKA
Required material for Shkodra Sheh Samia High constituted the second phase of the project.
School, which was built by TKA, including equipment
and electronic hardware for laboratories, furniture for Assistance for Gyula Krudy Culinary School in Szeged,
administrative chambers and appliances for the dining Hungary
hall were procured and provided.
TKA renovated kitchen furniture, natural gas and
KazakhstanProgram for Training for Trainers in electricity infrastructure, procured culinary equipment,
Vocational and Technical Education and met the need for a restaurant training/simulation
hall in the Gyula Krudy Tourism and Hotel Management
The Training for Trainers in Vocational and Technical and Culinary High School, which has been operational
Education program, which has been underway in since the 1930s in Szeged, one of Hungarys major cities.
Kazakhstan since 2012 in collaboration with the Ministry
of National Education, has seen the participation of Gambia Omar Bin Khattab School Renovation and
242 Kazakh trainers and administrators. The program Refurnishing
is highly appreciated by Kazakh authorities, who have
requested the continuation of this program. As part of TKAs assistance to the ongoing construction
of the Omar Bin Khattab Secondary and High School in
In 2015, a total of 66 teachers from six different subject Brikama which is 30 kilometers away from the capital
areas (motorized vehicles, agriculture, food, textile city of Banjul, construction work on five incomplete
technologies, office management and primary school classrooms was finished, while a new toilet was built and
teaching) and two administrators participated the all equipment for the 13-classroom school, which opened
program. The first phase of the project was carried out in in 2006, was replaced.
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HIGHER
EDUCATION
Morocco University
of Mohammed V
Multi-Purpose Hall Renovation Project
The multipurpose hall, VIP room, sound room and halls on the 2nd floor of the Deans Hall
Extension Building at the University of Mohammed V in the Moroccan capital of Rabat were
renovated and furnished.
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Kyrgyzstan-Turkey
Manas University
Under the framework of agreement signed between the
Governments of the Republic of Turkey and the Kyrgyz
Republic on 30/09/1995 in zmir, for the establishment
of Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University in Bishkek,
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SCHOLARSHIPS
Historical and Cultural Excursion Program for Students from Kosovo International Researchers Fellowship Program
Support is provided to foreign nationals with a Ph.D. abroad, who are willing to do part of their research in
degree or enrolled in a Ph.D. program abroad on the Turkey in the fields of natural sciences, engineering and
condition that part of their research would be carried out technology, medical sciences, agricultural sciences, or
in a university or research institute in Turkey. The aim social sciences and humanities in order to enhance our
of the program is to provide financial support to foreign countrys contribution to international cooperation in the
nationals with a Ph.D. degree or in a Ph.D. program fields of science and technology.
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In support of the development of scientific interaction natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical
and international research chains and the promotion of sciences, agricultural sciences, social sciences and
Turkey, TBTAK provides support for the 2015 Graduate humanities. (The program does not include studies for
Scholarship Program for International Students which specialization in any major or minor branch and scientific
targets foreign nationals who continue their graduate or preparation course within the field of clinical medical
Ph.D. studies in Turkey. sciences, including dentistry.) Scholarship students are
given monthly stipends as determined by the Scientific
The scholarship program supports skilled, high- Council to cover expenses in Turkey. Students from
achieving students who come from abroad to undertake Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Macedonia, Iraq, Bosnia and
a graduate program which includes a thesis, such as Herzegovina, Albania, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan and
a Masters or a Ph.D. in Turkey in the following fields: Bangladesh participated in the program in 2015.
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HEALTH
The fundamental aim of health policies is to improve recipients of assistance focus on creating models through
the quality of life and life expectancy of citizens and the construction and furnishing of health institutions
thereby to increase their participation in economic and
and hospitals, and/or improving the quality of medical
social life. While developed nations concentrate their
efforts on improvement of access to, and quality and personnel through high-level practical training. In this
effectiveness of their health services, countries who are framework, activities carried out in 2015 were as follows:
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General Health:
Projects and activities carried out by Turkish Public
Hospitals
The Turkey Public Hospitals Institution provided assistance to Nyala
Sudan Turkey Teaching Hospital Management Project in 2015
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The list of training programs and beneficiaries as delivered by the Ministry of Health of Turkey
in 2015 is as follows:
Azerbaijan 44 Georgia 9
Macedonia 23 Syria 8
Kosovo 20 Oman 8
South Sudan 19 Guinea Bissau 6
Turkmenistan 19 Morocco 5
Uzbekistan 16 Kyrgyzstan 7
Mongolia 15 Moldova 4
Albania 15 Benin 4
India 14 Ivory Coast 4
Vietnam 13 Sudan 3
Gambia 12 Senegal 3
Iraq 12 Kyrgyzstan 3
Kazakhstan 10 TOTAL 293
Health Weeks Organized Abroad an average of 10,000 operations, 3,000 deliveries, 9,000
dialysis treatments and 32,000 CT scans annually, along
Turkish-Kyrgyz Health Week: A total of 623 patients,
with other treatments and services. The clinic, with
admitted to departments including cardiology,
the busiest emergency service in the country, accepts
cardiovascular surgery (CVS), general surgery, cosmetic patients from Podgorica, Danilovgrad and Kolasin
surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, and pediatric surgery municipalities, where there are no available health
received medical consultation and 92 of those underwent institutions. In 2015, the emergency service facilities
operations. A total of 70 Kyrgyz health personnel of the clinic were renovated, and all required medical
received training in three medical branches (gynecology, equipment and hardware were procured and provided.
cardiovascular surgery and general surgery).
Uzbekistans Republic Maternity and
Turkish-Uzbek Health Week: A total of 381 Gynecology Clinic Training Center Renovation
patients, admitted to the cosmetic and reconstructive The training center at Uzbekistans Republic Maternity
surgery department, received medical consultation and and Gynecology Teaching Clinic, where specialists in
109 of those underwent operations. gynecological diseases, obstetrics, anesthesiology
and intensive care are given theoretical and practical
ASEOWA in-service training, was renovated.
Turkey, through the Under Secretariat of the Treasury,
granted 1 million USD in assistance to the African Country Number of Patients
Union to support the African Union Support to the Ebola Afghanistan 273
Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA) initiative which fought
Sudan 100
against the Ebola outbreak.
Albania 98
Basic Health Kyrgyzstan 95
Kosovo 28
Projects and activities carried out by TKA Yemen 21
Azerbaijan 12
Furnishing of Montenegro Clinic Center
The Montenegro Clinic Center, with a capacity of 778 Niger 3
beds, serves over 40,000 patients. Further, it performs TRNC 2
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Kosovo 26 Kyrgyzstan 3
Palestine 18 Uzbekistann 3
Greece 19 Albania 2
Somalia 9 Azerbaijan 2
Macedonia 7 Turkmenistann 2
Ukraine 6 Afghanistan 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 Montenegro 1
Bulgaria 5 Egypt 1
Djibouti 4 Russia 1
Iraq 4 Sierra Leone 1
Georgia 3 Yemen 1
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WATER SANITATION
AND HYGIENE (WASH)
Turkey drills water wells in water-scarce countries with a particular focus on Africa and the Middle East
Water is among the most fundamental needs for human survival. Global
warming, pollution of resources, unplanned growth and diminishing water
sources makes it harder to access tap and potable water. Our country, which
built some of the largest dams in the world and connected continents with water
channels, emerges as a hope for African nations suffering from a lack of water.
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Afghanistan
Saplings were procured, a water well was drilled and a drip irrigation
system was installed in order to establish an experimental garden for the
Kabul University Faculty of Agriculture,
A deep water well was drilled in the Tevhid neighborhood in the 15th city
sector of Kabul,
A water tank was built in the Chamtal district of the province of Balkh in
Barga Turkmaniya,
A deep water well was drilled in the Balkh Bastan High School in Mazar-i
Sharif in the province of Balkh.
Projects and activities carried out were as follows:
DS personnel were appointed to visit the Republic of Explorations were carried out in Burkina Faso to extend
Djibouti to give theoretical and practical training on the 73 water wells in use especially towards the hard-to-
use of the Tamrok drilling machine which was granted reach and water-poor countryside,
to the country in the framework of the Project of Access Equipment that is planned to be granted to the
to Clean Potable Water in Western Africa, to drill bores. government of Niger was maintained and repaired,
25 water wells were also drilled in Mauritania,
A total of 36 water wells, representing 1,650 meters of
Empirical hydrogeological surveys and geophysical depth, were drilled to provide tap and potable water for
explorations were carried out in Sudan to measure the the use of around 62,000 people.
groundwater levels to drill water wells,
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SUPPORTING CIVIL
AND ADMINISTRATIVE
INFRASTRUCTURE
The higher the adoption of certain principles and practices, such as political
representation, participation, accountability, effective civil society, rule of law and
decentralization - all considered to be inalienable democratic values - by a society and
its political machinery in a developing country, the easier it is for that country to accord
with the developments in the contemporary world. Turkey has paid particular attention
to the implementation of human resource related programs in order to improve
records of developing nations in the aforementioned democratic institutions. Turkish
public officials full-heartedly share their experience with the people of developing
nations via years-long programs.
A Public Bread Factory was constructed on a land parcel granted by the Bishkek Municipality of Kyrgyzstan, and
required machinery and equipment were also provided by TKA. The factory has a daily production capacity of
around 30,000 loafs.
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International Police Training Cooperation Project nations rising popularity as host of various major
The activities carried out in the framework of the sporting and cultural organizations.
International Police Training Cooperation Project,
carried out collectively by TKA and the General Gambia
Directorate of Security, were as follows: 600 police uniforms provided by the General
Directorate of Security were delivered to the General
Azerbaijan Directorate of Gambian Police by TKA.
Bomb disposal vehicles, jammers, bomb disposal
robots, and bomb disposal expert suits were provided Bosnia and Herzegovina
at the request of Azerbaijan, a country open to regional Security equipment provided by the General
and global security threats. The provisions were Directorate of Security was delivered to the Interior
made to boost security measures against undesirable Ministry of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
incidents including bomb attacks in the wake of the via TKA.
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TKA and the General Directorate of Security Joint Police Training Projects
Country Course Name Number Number of Course
Number of Days Day Trainee Location
Bosnia and Technical Tracing and Cordoning Off Basic Training Course 5 20 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina Radicalization Processes Leading to Terrorism 7 12 Turkey
and Prevention Methods Course
Fighting against Car Theft and 5 16 Turkey
Vehicle Pre-screening Course
Macedonia 12
Protection of Very Important People (VIP) from Terrorism Course 25 Macedonia
Intervention Methods in Buildings and Vehicle 5 20 Turkey
Operations Course Turkey
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The General Directorate of Security also dispatched specialists to Pakistan, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Mongolia, Cote
dIvoire, Kosovo, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, Romania and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to provide training in
other fields based on the requests of the recipients.
The General Staff Partnership for Peace Training Center (PfPTC) has also been actively contributing to partnership
initiatives by conducting courses, mobile training activities and seminars for the members of NATO, Partnership
for Peace , Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), Partners across the Globe (PatG) and
countries with which Turkey has bilateral relationships.
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Repairs and refurnishing of Vaziani sewing workshop Repairs and refurnishing of Orphanage No. 32 in
Bukhara
Georgias Vaziani Sewing Workshop and its sales outlet
were repaired and refurnished, and internally displaced The three-story orphanage building in Uzbekistans
people were provided training through the establishment Bukhara city, which provides shelter and education for
of sewing and shoe-making workshops. 89 children, and consists of an administrative room, a
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Transport of 30 prefabricated
houses to Bosnia and Herzegovina
30 prefabricated houses procured
by Konya Metropolitan Municipality
were delivered to Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
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ECONOMIC
INFRASTRUCTURE
AND SERVICES
The Rehabilitation of road between Puli Sokhta and Darulaman Palace in Afghanistan
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Energy
Total Banking and Finance
Business and
Other Services
Transportation and
Storage
Communications
Donation of 20 trams to Bosnia and Herzegovina Solar system installation at Juba Airport and
procurement of generators
20 trams were donated by the Konya Metropolitan
Municipality to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the framework of the project to renovate the Juba
Donation of 20 vehicles to Monrovia Municipality, Liberia Airport in South Sudan and to make it suitable for
international flights, TKA supervised the installation of
20 vehicles were donated to Monrovia Municipality as part
of the town twinning protocol signed between Monrovia CVOR and DME systems, renewed the solar system to fit
and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. the new infrastructure, and replaced 24 batteries. Efforts
to illuminate and pave the grounds were also initiated.
Rehabilitation of Enguri Bridge at the
New bridge construction at Novi Brachin village of Razanj
Georgia-Abkhazia administrative border
Municipality
The Enguri Bridge, which provides a land connection
between Abkhazia and Georgia was rehabilitated by the The tender for the construction of a new bridge to replace
UNDP, and supported by TKA in order to foster trust- the flood-damaged structure over the Jovanovacka River
building and conciliation between Georgian and Abkhaz at the village of Novi Brachin of Razanj Municipality was
people. provided by TKA.
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Hosting journalists
A total of 98 journalists from Sub-Saharan Africa, Baku State University TV Studio
America, Europe, Asia, the Far East and the Middle
East, along with 95 embedded advisors, were provided Energy Generation and Supply
with hosting services as part of the Turkish Directorate
International Industrial Energy Efficiency and
General of Press and Informations program to host
Management Training Program
international media representatives who visit Turkey for
professional purposes. In collaboration with the General Directorate of
Renewable Energy, TEDAS gave a week-long training in
Establishment of a TV studio at the Faculty of International Turkey to a committee of 12 senior executives from the
Journalism Sudan Electricity Distribution Company.
In the framework of cooperation with the International Industrial Energy Efficiency and Management Training
Relations Institute of the Turkmenistan Foreign Ministry, Program
a TV studio was established at the Faculty of International
In collaboration with the General Directorate of Renewable
Journalism for the use of students in the broadcasting
Energy, TKA and JICA, a total of 12 participants from
department. TKA, which cooperates with the institute in
Ukraine Albania, Kosovo, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan,
several capacities also organized seminars, conferences Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan received training in
and lectures in the fields of international relations, the framework of the Industrial Energy Efficiency and
international trade, management, international law, Management Training Program, held between 3 and 16
international journalism, and history and records May, 2015.
management under joint education programs.
Baku State University TV Studio Improvement of Physical Infrastructure of Constitutional
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Toplanmas ve Analizi
International Islamic Finances Conference Project Forum including an Investment Forum, an Asian and
European Leaders Forum, a Eurasian Economic Congress,
The International Islamic Finances Conference was held in
a Revival of the Silk Road session and a city planning session.
Baku with collaboration from the Social Union to Understand
They also introduced the union and its projects and objectives.
Economic Resources (an association operating in Azerbaijan),
TKA supported the participation of a six-person group from
the Azerbaijan State Economics University (ADIU), the Istanbul
the Union of Engineers and Architects of the Turkic World,
Economic Research and Consultation Institute (ISEREC) and
including the union administrators and representatives of
the Al-Huda Center of Islamic Banking. Support was given
their project team to attend the forum.
for the conference participation of 13 individuals from Turkey,
Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Tunisia. Cooperation with the Kyrgyzstan National Bank on
Astana Economic Forum Islamic Banking
The Union of Engineers and Architects of the Turkic World A training program held on Islamic Banking in Istanbul for the
held meetings at key events during the VIII Astana Economic Kyrgyzstan National Bank was supported by TKA.
The most prominent projects of our country in the category of business and other sectors in 2015 were as follows:
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OF PRODUCTION
SECTORS
Five combine harvesters were
donated to the Tunisian Ministry
of Agriculture by TKA.
TURKISH DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE REPORT 2015
Sector total
Trade and
Tourism
Agriculture,
Forestry and
Fishing
Industry,
Mining and
Construction
Projects and activities carried out by TKA in the fields of agriculture and husbandry
5 combine harvesters were donated to the Tunisian 10 stud bulls were sent to an artificial insemination
Ministry of Agriculture. center in Sudan.
Work to establish Anatolian Faculty of Agriculture in A total of 100 greenhouses were donated to the
Somalia continued.
municipalities of Nova Varos, Tutin, Bujanovac
1000 bee colonies and various beekeeping materials and Ljubovija as part of an initiative by the Serbian
were delivered to 100 families in Azerbaijan. government entitled Sustainable Development
Assistance Program in Agricultural and Rural Fields.
A total of 500 families in some 72 villages in Eastern
Macedonia were given seeds and greenhouse Support was provided in the scope of a livelihood
cultivation equipment for year-long production of program in cooperation with Bangsamoro
high-yielding vegetable varieties (pepper and tomato). Development Agency of the Philippines for preparation
of land for goat rearing as well as for the procurement
In the framework of the project Improvement of
Vegetable and Greenhouse Cultivation in Gunja Region of needed material and equipment including 50
of Croatia 50 greenhouses were bought and mounted training materials, 60 vaccines, 40 pieces of technical
on the land. equipment, 3 promotion plates, and office furniture.
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The table below lists the trainings held by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock.
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan 2nd International Course on Food Security 12
and Food Additives
TOTAL 89
Projects and activities carried out by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs
The International Course on Erosion, Flood and Landslide Projects was held.
20,000 grizzly juniper tree saplings, 20,000 Arizona cypress saplings, and 10,000 thuja saplings were donated to
improve the forestry nursery of Turkmenistan.
Agricultural tools were donated as part of the project.
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Fishery projects and activities carried out by TKA In support of the Al-Ittihad Farmers and Fisher Folk
Marketing Cooperative, a project was initiated in the
15 floating fish cages were donated as part of a project
Philippines for the production of tilapia, a fish species
for the rehabilitation and renovation of typhoon-dama-
of high commercial value. The project worked with 108
ged fisheries in the Philippines. The project is expected
cooperative members in sustainable livelihoods training
to provide employment for 100 people and produce 25
focusing on tilapia farming and marketing. The project,
tons of marketable fish per season.
which consisted of two 6-month phases, including a pra-
ctice period and a monitoring and evaluation period.
TOTAL 18 107
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One drilling machine was procured by the General Underground Resources Program carried out
Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA) mutually by MTA and JICA.
to be used in practical drilling training in Djibouti.
A training program for a 10-person group from Niger
7 experts from Balkan countries were given 12 days was held by TKA and the Ministry of Energy and
of training in the scope of the Methods of Capacity Natural Resources.
Improvement in Exploration and Evaluation of
Two block-making
machines and two mixers
were donated by TKA to
support the construction of
lodgings for refugees in the
Erongo region of Namibia.
A block-making machine was donated to the Turk-Chad Entrepreneurs
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HUMANITARIAN AID
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AID TO SYRIAN
PEOPLE
Turkey has hosted and continues to They have been granted temporary Temporary accommodation
host nearly 3 million Syrian refugees protection by AFAD of the Prime centers provide heating, security,
who have fled internal strife in Syria. In Ministry, and their needs are being worship facilities, infrastructure,
line with its open-door policy, Turkey met through joint efforts of the communications, translation, psycho-
has granted these refugees temporary ministries of Internal Affairs, External social assistance, banking and
protection status, and has not deported fire-fighting services and include
Affairs, Health, National Education,
any Syrian refugees seeking safety in convenience stores, laundry and
Food, Agriculture and Livestock,
our country. dishwashing rooms and showers.
Transportation, and Finance, as well In addition to these basic services,
Around 260,000 of these refugees as the Turkish General Staff, the education and vocational training
have been living in 26 temporary Directorate of Religious Affairs, the are also offered in order to meet the
accommodation centers established Undersecretariat of Customs, and the social needs of the Syrians. Recreation
and run by AFAD across 10 cities. Red Crescent. centers, childrens parks and
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playgrounds, TV rooms, and internet accommodation of the nationals of the the country . AFAD also developed
service have also been provided for Syrian Arab Republic and stateless the Electronic Aid Distribution System
the convenience of our Syrian guests. people residing in the Syrian Arab (EY-DAS) which puts donors and
Furthermore, Syrian citizens are Republic who collectively seek asylum those in need on the same channel
provided with ration cards to meet in Turkey was issued in March 2012
so as to ensure aid is distributed in
their food needs which they can use in in order to specify the guidelines of
the most efficient way by matching
the convenience stores located in the legal treatment towards the Syrians in
temporary accommodation centers. Turkey. supply with demand. The system also
helps to minimize double distribution
In light of the highest possible AFAD issued directive no. 12816 of aid, extends the reach of aid to all
standards being offered to Syrian 2013/8 on September 9, 2013 as a people in need, and ensures that aid is
asylum seekers in our country, Turkey response to the mass influx of refugees distributed in such a way as to prioritize
has become a pioneering model from Syria and the subsequent
those suffering the most.
country in the eyes of the international increase in pressure on national health
community and especially to the UN. services resulting from the spread of
Furthermore, the problem of education
this incoming population to virtually all
of Syrian youth who are otherwise
AFAD is the responsible coordinating cities, starting from the metropolises.
authority for the regulation of The Directorate granted free health eligible to continue higher education
procedures of the Syrian population services to the Syrian people in the but had entered Turkey without
in Turkey. In this regard the directive country to alleviate this pressure to passports was resolved by enabling
concerning the admission and the benefit of all people throughout them to enroll in Turkish universities.
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AFAD
schools, mosques, police stations, health centers, trade
centers, media briefing units, playgrounds for children, TV
rooms, convenience stores, tailoring courses, water tanks,
water treatment facilities, transformer stations and power
generators.
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Information Regarding Temporary Accommodation Centers (TACs) in 10 cities under Coordination of the Disaster and
Emergency Management Authority AFAD
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EDUCATION SERVICES
Adult Courses
Class- Number of Students Number of Teachers
rooms Ongoing Completed
Primary Secondary High
Preschool School School Total Turkish Arabian Total Courses Trainees Courses Trainees
School
1.211 6.857 42.491 20.051 9.308 78.707 315 2.532 2.847 298 13.936 2.036 61.749
HEALTH SERVICES
Number of Temporary Accommodation Center Data Hospital Data
Doctors Number of Consultations Number of Consultations
at Polyclinics Dispatches to hospital at Polyclinics Dispatches to hospital Baby Operations
Deliveries
Foreign
Toplam
Native
across
Total
Total
Total
Total
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Turkey
96 20 7.442 4.886.843 2.275 906.869 12.589 5.839.073 792 455.950 151.746 516 313.117
Note: Data from camps are subject to change; data represented above is based on an information note dated December 31, 2015 by AFAD.
Afghanistan and 320 food packages. Another procured and organized the air
shipment of food and medication aid delivery of medication and medical
In the wake of the magnitude 7.5
was dispatched to the region following consumables to Liberia.
earthquake that hit the Badakhshan
the second 7.4 magnitude earthquake
province of Afghanistan on October 26, 1,700 food packages were sent to
which hit on May 12, 2015.
2015, AFAD coordinated the immediate Albania.
dispatch of humanitarian aid consisting Yemen
of 5 tons of medication to Kabul, the Financial aid was provided to
As part of humanitarian aid operations Vanuatu.
capital city of Afghanistan.
in support of Yemen and the Yemeni
Nepal people who took shelter in Djibouti due 1,650 beds and box springs were
to the internal conflict in their country dispatched to Malaysia.
In the wake of the 7.8 magnitude
in 2015, 2,400 food packages were Via the Turkish Red Crescent,
earthquake with a depth of 15 km that
hit some 77 kilometers east of the prepared and 6 tons of medication were relief material including 100 winter
capital city of Kathmandu, 3 personnel sent to the region. On August 3, 2015,
tents, 100 kitchen sets, and 1,000
from AFAD, 25 personnel from an additional 2,000 food packages,
blankets were sent to people who
AFADs Istanbul branch and 10 UMKE weighing 45 tons, were provided.
have been temporarily displaced
personnel were sent to the region. Other Humanitarian Aid Operations due to internal strife in Ukraine.
Four personnel from the Turkish Red
Non-food aid material was 15,000 tons of flour was sent to
Crescent, 15 from GEA, 13 from IHH, 3
dispatched to Myanmar in Gaza as part of an in-kind food
from Doctors Worldwide, and 20 from
collaboration with UNICEF. assistance project in collaboration
AKUT also participated in operations in
the region. AFAD provided medication In light of WHO reports on health with UNRWA which started in 2011.
and medical consumables, hygiene about the Ebola outbreak in Turkey has sent a total of 43,500
material and food, and the Turkish Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, tons of flour to Palestine since
Red Crescent sent 1,000 blankets AFAD and the Ministry of Health 2011.
Accra, the capital city of Ghana, faced and damage. Many were left home- Ministry of Foreign Affairs dispatc-
a devastating flood disaster in 2015 less and lost adequate access to ba- hed humanitarian aid to Ghanaians
due to heavy rainfall. Following the sic needs and services. affected by the disasters.
flood, a fire increased the death toll In the wake of the flood and fire, the
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Humanitarian Aid Operations in and tent and food aid for Afghani periodic Israeli attacks against Gaza.
Afghanistan victims of a landslide that occurred In this context, a total of 46 projects
in the Koktaba village of Rustaq town were carried out between 2005 and
TKA provided humanitarian
in Takhar province. 2015. In 2015, fuel was sent to Gaza
aid to Afghanistan in several
different capacities. This included to relieve energy shortages resulting
Humanitarian Aid to Palestine from infrastructure damage due to
humanitarian aid for terror victims,
emergency aid for flood victims, TKA provides assistance for Israeli attacks. Wounded Palestinians
emergency aid for avalanche victims, emergency needs arising from were also treated in Turkey.
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Humanitarian and
Emergency Operations
of Turkish Red Crescent
KIZILAY
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A total of 44 medical devices and furniture items were A total of 10,000 items of winter clothes and 1,000 food
provided for two new hospital floors which were recently packages were delivered.
constructed atop the Deralbalahta Shuhada Al-Aksa
Hospital; financial aid was provided to custodians of Eid al-Adha Food Aid Operations in 2015
orphans in five regions including Jabalia, Gaza, Khan
In the scope of the Eid al-Adha operations of the Red
Yunis, Rafah and Central District; 2,000 food packages for
Crescent in 2015, 2,990 cattle and 1,932 sheep were
Eid al-Fitr were distributed to those in need in the Beit
sacrificed in a total of 18 countries and 21 regions
Hanoun Municipality; support was provided to the al-
including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro,
Amal Orphanage.
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Humanitarian Aid to Montenegro Ethiopia, Somalia, Niger, Iraq, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan,
Senegal, Mauritania, Chad and Syria, and a total of 96,558
Three truck-loads of aid material were transported to meat packages were distributed to those in need.
Montenegro to meet the needs of 25 couples preparing
for marriage.
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The 2015 earthquake in Nepal, one of the poorest countries in Asia, had catastrophic
consequences given a combination of factors including landslides, bad weather, and inadequate
infrastructure.
As a result of the earthquake, 8,000 people died while 19,000 others were injured. According
to UN data, more than 8 million inhabitants were affected by the earthquakes in the affected
regions, and about 70,000 homes were destroyed.
The cost of reconstruction of the destroyed buildings has been estimated to be about 5 billion
USD. Against this background, various humanitarian aid activities have been carried out by
relevant institutions and organizations in Turkey for the relief of those affected in Nepal.
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TKA
In Kathmandu, a dermatome device and a baby
incubator were donated to a hospital. Four truck-loads
of humanitarian aid were also distributed among 1,300
families in the Nuwakot earthquake zone, and two
other affected villages. In addition, 800 school bags and
stationery materials were distributed to students.
AFAD
Under the coordination of AFAD, search and rescue and
humanitarian operations were carried out by the Turkish
team which consisted of 81 people, including 10 from the
Ministry of Health National Medical Rescue Squads (UMKE),
40 from Red Crescent, and an additional 31 personnel from
Turkish NGOs.
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TURKISH DYANET
FOUNDATION
A humanitarian team was dispatched to the area. In
addition, supplies of blankets, tents and food parcels were
provided.
STANBUL
METROPOLITAN
MUNICIPALITY
The Istanbul Fire Brigade Team, consisting of seven
rescue workers, served as a pioneer unit participating
in earthquake relief work in Nepal.
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TURKISH NGO
ASSISTANCE
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Emergency relief:
Nepal and Pakistan Earthquakes
Earthquake victims were given basic necessities,
provisions and food packages. Aid was sent to
Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan as part of the
Humanitarian Aid for Natural Disaster-Earthquake
Project.
Palestine/Gaza
A total of 8,306 families were given food packages in the
scope of humanitarian food aid.
Iraq
Milk, clothing for children and women, cleaning products
and food packages were distributed to 500 refugee
families in Kirkuk. Food packages were distributed to
100 orphan families in or near Baghdad. Further, 1,675
families were provided with emergency food aid in
Ramadi.
Yemen
In-kind relief was provided for families affected by
floods.
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provision of strollers, bags etc., Monthly financial support to 80 orphans, and in-kind
provision of 46,352 aid parcels, aid for 4,956 students and approximately 200 teachers,
provision of 934 pieces of kitchen utensils, Financial and in-kind aid including funds, scholarships,
provision of 3,652 textile products (bedclothes, sheets, food, clothing, cleaning, fuel and health care for
pillows, quilts etc.), Syrians in need,
provision of 699 cleaning and hygiene products, Provision of food aid, meat for Eid al-Adha, mobile
provision of 11,618 medical items, bakery units and winter season assistance for Syrian
provision of 90,164 items/sets of educational material, refugees and people living in Gaza, Palestine.
Social Services
Orphan sponsorship projects: Monthly orphan Ration distribution projects: Around 10,000 people in
sponsorship funds were provided in 2015 between Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
January and July to 1,772 orphans in Mauritania and Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal,
31,081 orphans across 29 other countries. and Sierra Leone received rations.
Orphan projects: Child war victims in Gaza, Palestine Rations were distributed to orphans and families in
were given winter clothing, and the accommodation
need across 29 countries during Eid al-Fitr.
expenses of orphans in Uganda were covered.
Stationery distribution projects: Stationery materials 20,348 orphans in 22 countries were given clothing in
were procured for 8,352 orphans in 15 countries. the scope of clothing aid projects.
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Food aid worth 400,000 USD was distributed to Somalia, Afghanistan and Sudan to help fight famine
people in Afghanistan, Albania, Burkina Faso, Ivory and provide education to 7,825 children in camps.
Coast, Palestine, Ghana, Georgia, Cameroon, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Mali, Niger, Serbia, Sudan, Tanzania, and 3,000 goats were distributed in Niger in 2015.
Uganda.
Educational complexes for orphaned children in
2,764 pieces/sets of educational materials, 95,479 Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Sudan and
kg of food, 11,640 items of clothing, 32 various Syria were provided with financial assistance.
articles, and 105 cleaning and hygiene products were
dispatched to Bayrbucak and Yaylada. Iftar programs were organized in Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Ghana, Iraq,
A total of 72,700 people in Africa were provided with Kosovo, Lebanon, Macedonia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri
food packages. Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
1,112 children in Thailand, Palestine, and Syria were Rations, food boxes for Iftar, food packages and
given gift boxes for Eid al-Fitr. holiday presents worth 289,000 USD were distributed
to people in need across 17 countries.
My House Becomes My Workshop Project: 100 families
in Bangladesh were provided with sewing machines In-kind assistance in the form of clothing, education,
for toll manufacturing. Additionally, transportation medication, fuel, and cleaning and hygiene products
vehicles (called rikshaws or tuk-tuks) were given to were distributed in Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda,
30 families to support their livelihood efforts.
Kenya, Ivory Coast, Niger, Ghana, South Sudan, and
185 advisors were appointed as part of a project across Zimbabwe.
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WASH Projects
A total of 867 water wells were drilled
including 292 in Chad, 108 in Somalia,
139 in Ghana, 73 in Kenya, 58 in Uganda,
109 in Niger, 30 in Sri Lanka, 32 in
Burkina Faso, 10 in Bangladesh, 8 in
India, 5 in Indonesia, and 3 in Ethiopia.
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