Institutional Evaluations

Increasing Humanitarian Crises and Approaches in 2022: How Just and Sustainable is the Humanitarian System?

Alper Küçük
Turkish Red Crescent, Director General of the International Affairs and Migration Services

We entered 2022 with the hope of leaving COVID-19 behind. Partially, we managed to overcome the acute phase. However, the global humanitarian crises and the number of people in need of humanitarian aid continued to increase. The conflicts between Russia and Ukraine resulted in 14 million people seeking asylum in relatively safe areas within the…

Read more »

Fundamental Blocks of Change

Şemsi Kâmile Canbay
Turkish Red Crescent, Head of Governance Office

The Turkish Red Crescent carries out blood services and is present in the field in case of natural or human-related disasters. In addition, within the scope of preventive efforts against the devastating impacts of disasters, TRC supports the protection of people and nature, the fight against poverty, direct in-kind and in-cash aid to families and…

Read more »

Red Vest International Volunteer Awards

Nurdal Durmuş
Turkish Red Crescent, Director of Volunteer Management

Volunteering has been a significant factor in the development of social relations between people, the formation of standards of judgment, the increase of social awareness and entrepreneurship, and the resolution of problems. The concept of volunteering has managed to exist and develop within cultures throughout history. It interacts with many disciplines, such as civil society,…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

We are at a Crossroad in the Face of Increasing Global Crises

Serkan Kayalar
President, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA)

It would not be wrong to say that humanity entered the new century quite uneasy after witnessing tragic wars in the twentieth century. At the beginning of the millennium, many concepts such as global governance, the ideal of international society, and global sustainable development were put forward with great hopes for the sake of solving…

Read more »

The Activities of UN Türkiye in 2021

Alvaro Rodriguez
(on behalf of the UN Türkiye Team) UN Türkiye Resident Coordinator

Since 2014, Türkiye has hosted the largest population of persons under temporary and international protection in the world. In 2021, the number of Syrians under temporary protection passed 3.7 million, while Türkiye also hosts approximately 320,000 international protection applicants and status holders from other countries, principally Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. The Regional Refugee and Resilience…

Read more »

We use cookies to help us deliver our services.    More Info