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Türk Kızılay
Türk Kızılay is a voluntary social service organization with a legal personality, subject to the provisions of private law, non-profit-making, gratuitously providing assistance and services, and working for the public benefit. Türk Kızılay, which aims to alleviate or prevent human suffering without discrimination, to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the individual's personality, and to bring mutual understanding, friendship, respect, cooperation, and lasting peace between people, is known as the symbol of solidarity in times of need, equality in times of suffering, humanitarianism, neutrality, and peace in times of war and difficult events.
From the Ottoman-Russian war in 1876 to the Cyprus Peace Operation in 1974, Turkish Red Crescent Society provided medical response to ten thousands of Turkish and enemy soldiers in all battlefields in which Türkiyewas present, through mobile and fixed hospitals, patient transportation services, hospital vessels, trained nurses and volunteering care givers; provided humanitarian care to war slaves regardless of their nationality;brought care and protection to all civilians affected by war; provided healthcare, shelter and nutrition of the disaster victims in all natural disasters in the country dating back to the great cholera epidemic in Istanbul following the declaration of the 1st Reformation Period; participated in international relief and response activities; led initiatives in nurse training, first aid and blood services and provided social aid and services to all Turkish citizens in need of such aid.
Turkish Red Crescent Association which was founded on 11 June 1868 with the name Society for Aiding the Wounded and Ailing Ottoman Soldiers”, later took on the names "Ottoman Red Crescent Society” in 1877,“Türkiye’s Red Crescent Community” in 1923 “Turkish Red Crescent Community” in 1935 and “Turkish Red Crescent Society” in 1947. It was the great leader Ataturk who lent the name “KIZILAY” (Red Crescent) to the institution.
Turkish Red Crescent Society shares the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement which are humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. Carrying out national and international activities in areas such as disasters, safe blood supply,social services, migration services, education, youth, and volunteering services, the Turkish Red Crescent is developing its range of services day by day.
Community-Based Migration Programs Coordinatorship and Community Centers
As a result of political crisis and conflict beginning in Syria on March 15, 2011, millions of people were displaced and became in need of humanitarian aid. Türkiye has been hosting approximately millions of migrants and refugees with this migration crisis. Within the framework of the cooperation signed between the Turkish Red Crescent and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in May 2013, Child-Friendly Spaces were established within the Syria Emergency Response to provide services to migrants in Temporary Accommodation Centers. To further strengthen the response to the migration crisis, TRCS established its first Community Center in Şanlıurfa in 2015 in line with the needs of migrants living outside temporary accommodation centers and the local communities they live with. The first Mobile Child-Friendly Space, which can change its location according to the needs of the target group, started its activities in Şanlıurfa in 2015.
The main objective of the Community-Based Migration Programs Coordinatorship (CBMPC) is to ensure that all vulnerable communities and beneficiaries have access to fundamental rights and to provide services to develop social resilience and a culture of coexistence by strengthening psychological, social, economic, and physical wellbeing and increasing access to education. The Community-Based Approach which gives its name to the Coordinatorship integrates the power of the community with the support of national and international stakeholders and transforms it into social services. This service model produced and developed by Türk Kızılay has become an exemplary and preferred model in the humanitarian aid sector. Within the framework of this model; Protection Program, Socioeconomic Empowerment Program, Child Programs,Integrated Programs, and Health and Psychosocial Support Program continue their activities.