Celebrating the thirty second anniversary of its basis, Türkiye’s state-run assist company is ready to proceed with extending Ankara’s serving to hand to the world in 2024, the pinnacle of the group famous in his latest interview with Anadolu Agency (AA).
“The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) is an organization that prioritizes people and supports development projects in different parts of the world,” Serkan Kayalar, TIKA’s president, informed AA.
Kayalar stated that the company will proceed to diversify actions in 2024, including that TIKA is a company that displays “Türkiye’s global humanitarian stance with tangible development projects.”
“We prioritize income-generating projects, especially in Africa and other regions. We will continue our activities in these areas in the coming period,” he stated.
“We will continue to share the expertise of our country’s institutions, especially in developing human resource capacities, with our brotherly and friendly countries,” he added.
Kayalar additionally famous the continuing efforts to open places of work in several areas within the coming years.
Recalling that 2023 marked the one centesimal anniversary of the Turkish republic, he stated they’re endeavor initiatives and actions that carry this pleasure overseas. In this regard, they’ve carried out 35 initiatives and actions in 18 international locations.
Moreover, he touched upon the response and mobility offered by the worldwide group within the wake of final yr’s highly effective earthquakes.
“The world’s mobilization in the wake of the Feb. 6 earthquakes is a testament to the work we did and to Türkiye’s presence at their side in their difficult times. The fact that search and rescue teams from different countries came to Türkiye after the earthquakes is also a sign of this,” Kayalar stated.
He careworn that the company’s work is unfold throughout a large geography.
The company started intensive renovation work on the Potocari Old Battery Factory in Bosnia-Herzegovina in early 2023 to rework it into the Srebrenica Potocari Memorial Museum for the Victims of Genocide. The museum is necessary to make sure that the atrocities that happened aren’t forgotten.
He additionally highlighted the institution of the Türkiye Hall throughout the National Museum of World Cultures in Mexico City, the primary of its form in Central and Latin America.
About the work TIKA is doing in North Africa, he stated the company will start restoration work this yr on the complicated that homes the tomb of the well-known Turkish sailor Turgut Reis in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
TIKA’s work within the Turkic world is constant, he stated, including that the company is constant work on the Bilge Tonyukuk Museum in Mongolia, which was based in 2022 and that the museum will open to the general public this yr.
Tonyukuk, an important determine in Turkic historical past, was a supreme commander and adviser of 4 successive Gokturk khagans, whereas the Tonyukuk inscriptions from the eighth century are thought-about the oldest written attestations of the Turkic language household.
Touching upon TIKA’s work in Gaza and Palestine, he stated: “The suffering in Palestine deeply affects us all. Through TIKA, over 1,100 projects have been implemented in Palestine to date.”
“We are striving to deliver essential materials such as food packages, blankets, sleep sets, winter clothing and medical supplies through various humanitarian aid projects. We will continue our efforts for the people of Palestine,” he stated.
Earlier this month, the group’s head introduced TIKA had prolonged a hand of friendship and help to many international locations around the globe through the yr 2023 by means of 1,326 initiatives and occasions in varied fields.
Founded in 1992, TIKA has applied over 30,000 initiatives and actions thus far, with 93% of them being carried out since 2002.
In 2002, TIKA had 12 program coordination places of work worldwide. By 2023, this quantity may have elevated to 63 and the variety of international locations the place it operates may have grown from 28 to over 170. The group plans to extend the variety of its coordination places of work worldwide in 2024.
Source: www.dailysabah.com