Turkey gives $5 billion aid in four years
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Anatolian Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Kasım 17, 2008 00:00
ANKARA - In its steps to become an important actor in global development, Turkey has allocated $5.2 billion to development aid in the last four years. The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency, or TIKA, has offered data on Turkey’s contribution for development projects world wide since the 1990s. In 2004 Turkey provided development aid to 72 countries. This number rose to 127 in 2006 and 131 in 2007.
Expanding its aid to relief from natural disasters, Turkey has also added countries from Africa and The Middle East to its list of aid recipients. Turkey’s official development aid to African countries was $1.56 million in 2004. That rose to $30.97 million in 2007.
Turkey distributed a total of $1.3 billion in development aid in 2007. The share of official development aid from this figure amounted to $602.24 million.
Last year, Afghanistan was the largest recipient of Turkish aid with $71.61 million, Followed by Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Technical collaboration projects were preferred in 2007 to emergency humanitarian aid. Emergency aid amounted to $44.96 million in 2004. That number rose to $178.99 million in 2005, $115.67 million in 2006 and $46.12 million in 2007.
Iraq received the larges allotment of emergency aid - $23.55 million - while last year’s emergency aid equated to 51 percent of the total emergency aid amount.
Turkey distributed a total of $1.3 billion in development aid in 2007. The share of official development aid from this figure amounted to $602.24 million.
Last year, Afghanistan was the largest recipient of Turkish aid with $71.61 million, Followed by Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Technical collaboration projects were preferred in 2007 to emergency humanitarian aid. Emergency aid amounted to $44.96 million in 2004. That number rose to $178.99 million in 2005, $115.67 million in 2006 and $46.12 million in 2007.
Iraq received the larges allotment of emergency aid - $23.55 million - while last year’s emergency aid equated to 51 percent of the total emergency aid amount.