Kızılay Akademi

2021 as a Turning Point for Social Impact Investment

İlyas Haşim Çakmak
Member of the Board of Directors, CEO Kızılay Investment Inc.

The business world is a part of the transformation process the world goes through. Designing the future by solely analyzing spreadsheets is now history. We need to predict the future with what we have learned from the past. Social and economic systems interact with each other more than ever before, and that signals a new…

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Large Organizations, Big Moves

Kamile Canbay
Turkish Red Crescent Governance Office President

The Turkish Red Crescent is both a member of an international movement and is an organization that has the largest network of volunteers in Türkiye, an organization with a special place in society, and one which enriches itself with societal dynamics. It is only natural that the expectations from large organizations are big in terms…

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2021: A Year in Disaster Areas

İbrahim Özer
Director General for Disaster Management, Turkish Red Crescent

Society has established many different types of organizations over the years in order to deal with disasters. Lessons learned from previous disasters have played roles as contributing factors to progress in the development of these models. Lessons learned from the disasters and the great destructions that follow has made it essential to transition from an…

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Notes from Turkey’s Disaster Management Agenda

Disaster & Emergency Advisory Board Meetings Tasked with reducing disaster and emergency risks, offering suggestions about activities to be carried out after disasters and emergencies and setting policies and priorities, the Disaster and Emergency Advisory Board held meetings on July 13 and December 30, 2020. Technical evaluations and intervention studies on the earthquakes experienced in…

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Disasters in Turkey in 2020

Mikdat Kadıoğlu
Prof. Dr., Istanbul Technical University Department of Meteorological Engineering

Undoubtedly, the most significant calamity in Turkey in 2020 has been the COVID-19 pandemic. However, other disasters based in Turkey have been recorded in international disaster databases. Eight nature-based and four technology-based disasters have been recorded in the International Emergency Database (EM-DAT) for Turkey in 2020. Five of the eight nature-based calamities were formed from…

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