
Turkey’s high vulnerability to earthquakes is significantly compounded by socio-economic factors. Following two devastating earthquakes in 1999, the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS), American Red...
Turkey’s high vulnerability to earthquakes is significantly compounded by socio-economic factors. Following two devastating earthquakes in 1999, the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS), American Red...
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The Forum has engaged a broad range of stakeholders including Governments, the UN, parliamentarians, mayors, intergovernmental organizations, scientific and academic institutions, private businesses,...
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A. Purpose of the note The Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), through its National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), has requested further ADB assistance to summarize...
International Blue Crescent Relief and Development Foundation (IBC) and its partners, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and D=FCzce Municipality have completed the houses provided free to 168 families...
August 15, 2003 -- In less than one minute on the hot summer night of August 17, 1999, the lives of the Turkish people changed forever. A massive 7.4 earthquake rocked the city of Gölc=FCk and the...
by Arzu Ozsoy in Ankara "Everyone forgot about us, but the Red Cross" says Nevzat Gocer, Kocaeli Province Planning/Coordination Manager, talking about the Avluburun Water Treatment Project (WTP). In...
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Fifty-seventh session Item 21 (a) of the provisional agenda* Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations Emergency response to disasters Report of the...
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By Sheryl Feldman Statistical and systemic analyses of disaster response are becoming more sophisticated by the day.=A0 Excellent as they are, they tend to lack first-hand evaluations of relief...
Praises earthquake reconstruction projects (ISTANBUL, Turkey - 8 March 2002) As Turkey completes rebuilding efforts after the devastating earthquake of nearly three years ago, Rotary International...
This Programme Update is intended for reporting on Annual Appeals. Appeal Target: CHF 21,559,000 Period covered: 1 November - 31 December; last Programme Update (no. 5) issued 21 December 2001 "At a...
This Programme Update is intended for reporting on Annual Appeals. Appeal Target: CHF 21,559,000 Period covered: 1 September - 31 October 2001; last Programme Update (Situation Report No.4) issued 19...
Press release: EXT 2001/046 Luxembourg, 14 December 2001 - The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 185 million (1) for works in Turkey to improve living-conditions in Eskisehir, in...
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From Federation News 26/01 More than 40 million vulnerable people will be helped in the coming year in the framework of the Federation's global appeal, launched on December 4 in Geneva. The appeal...
Silver Spring, Maryland -The Orta Relief Project, undertaken by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) following an earthquake in June 2000, has been completed. Approximately 7,300 people...
The months of July and August were highlighted with a series of activities to mark the second commemoration of the massive earthquake disaster, which devastated north western Turkey in 1999. Those...
By Obi Emekekwue The excitement is always palpable each time a mobile health unit pulls into one of Turkey's disaster stricken communities. During a recent visit to a rural community badly affected...
by Arzu Ozsoy, in Izmit The wounds inflicted by the violent earthquake which shook the Marmara region of Turkey on August 17, 1999 have not fully healed yet. According to official figures, the quake...
by Neena Sachdeva in Ankara Two years after the August earthquake which killed more than 17,000 people in Izmit, the long-term legacy of the devastating disaster is painfully obvious. To help people...
Period covered: 1 May - 30 June 2001 Maintaining its status as the most disaster prone country in Europe, Turkey experienced a flood and three earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 and over during May...
Capacity building through training programmes has become the central focus on the list of priorities for the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS) in 2001. With the help of the International Federation...