Kızılay Akademi – Page 8 – Türkiye Humanitarian Action Overview

The New Locomotive of the Turkish Red Crescent: Kızılay 360³

Zeynep Meltem Özeker

Turkish Red Crescent, Director General of Community Relations

We worked hard to alleviate human suffering by providing essential humanitarian aid such as food, shelter, health, and nutrition in 2022. We moved forward according to the fundamentals of humanitarian action, not only in Türkiye but also across the world. We operated in volunteering, donations, and communication within the framework of community relations by following…

The Power of Solidarity in Disaster Management

İbrahim Özer

Turkish Red Crescent, Director General of Disaster Management and Climate Change

As a result of the increase in economic, sociological, environmental, and physical vulnerabilities in today’s world, disasters have started to occur more frequently, especially in developing countries. Due to many various types of disasters, it can be seen that both the death toll and the number of people affected are high in Türkiye. Given the…

Humanitarian Aid Activities

Nurettin Hafızoğlu

Turkish Red Crescent, Director General for Support Services

According to the United Nations Global Humanitarian Overview, while the number of people who need humanitarian aid and protection was 235 million in 2021, this number will reach 274 million by the end of 2022. According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report by the United Nations, 690 million people…

Reflections of the Pandemic in Blood Services

Saim Kerman

Dr., Turkish Red Crescent

Many disciplines work together in natural disasters occurring in the world. While some activities and duties are interrupted during and after the disaster, all structures related to human health continue to work without a break. The COVID-19 crisis has made the health sector the center of all the other industries. In this context, the Turkish…

The 2022 Logbook of the Turkish Red Crescent Academy

Alpaslan Durmuş

President of the Turkish Red Crescent Academy

As the education, research, and publication department of the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC), TRC Academy operates in disaster, migration, social service, volunteering, international aid, humanitarian law, public health, and so on. Turkish Red Crescent Academy favors the unity of theory and practice in “humanitarian action,” which it sees as a framework concept that “covers all…

Türkiye in 2022 from the Perspective of Public Health

Feyza Kutay Yılmaz

Research Assistant, Dr., Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health

Esmehan Ayşit

Research Assistant, Dr., Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health

Mustafa Çakır

Dr., Faculty Member, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health

Hatice İkiışık

Assoc. Prof. Dr., Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health

Işıl Maral

Prof. Dr., Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health

2022, like in the rest of the world, has been a year that contained many significant events affecting public health in our country as well. The COVID-19 pandemic, which started in 2019, is still ongoing worldwide and in our country. The measures taken during the pandemic, efforts in testing and vaccination, have yielded results, and…

Emerging New Forms: Realities Recognized with the Pandemic

Necdet Subaşı

Ministry of National Education, Advisor to Minister

The global COVID-19 outbreak has rapidly started to change the familiar rhythm of everyday life. We are not struggling to adapt to new ways of living, patterns, and forms. Severe pressures are constantly shaping the normal flow of human relationships. The announcement made by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, signaled the collective…

2022 Humanitarian Action Chronology

JAN January 27th, 2022 The first humanitarian aid train carrying supplies to Afghanistan set off FEB February 3rd, 2022 The obligation to use masks within scope of COVID-19 measures lifted February 21th, 2022 Climate Summit begins MAR March 8th, 2022 Heavy snowfall in Istanbul causes road closures March 9th, 2022 Ağrı, Doğubayazıt, Tendürek Mountain road…

The Plague of our Age: Global Climate Change

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Birpınar

Republic of Türkiye, Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change

Thanks to the technological advancements experienced today, we can find information about celestial bodies billions of light years away. This way we know there is no similar world that can host humans. However, we do not fully appreciate our world’s uniqueness. Since the industrial revolution, we have poorly used the blessings of the world. In…

The Leading Role of Türkiye in International Humanitarian Action

Hatice Karahan

Prof. Dr., Visiting scholar at Columbia University Advisor to the President of Türkiye

The Republic of Türkiye has displayed an upward trend in international development cooperation on which it places special importance since the 2000s, and it has become one of the most prominent actors in the world in this respect. Responsibilities taken within international structures and a wide range of global and local advancements have played an…