2020

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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2020 in Terms of Public Health

Şeyma Arslan
Dr., Ministry of Health, Arnavutköy District Health Directorate
Mustafa Taşdemir
Prof. Dr., Ministry of Health, General Director for Health Promotion

As a result of pneumonia cases of unknown origin being reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), a new virus from the coronavirus family was detected at the beginning of 2020. Cases of those infected with this virus were seen on many continents. WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak on March 11, 2020.1 As of December…

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Turkey as a Country of Migration: Notes on 2020

Selman Salim Kesgin
Dr., Turkish Red Crescent Academy

Turkey has become a destination country for migrants from almost every corner of the world due to its geopolitical basin, historical and cultural past, and the economic and political policies it has adopted. For this reason, the number of visitors coming to Turkey for education, work, and asylum has experienced continuous growth since the early…

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