Turkey Donates $1.3 Billion to Poor Countries

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Turkey donated $1.3 billion in 2011 to poor nations as support to the least developed countries holds an important place in its international development initiatives, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 21.

“We will continue with determination to support the least developed countries and voice their problems on every occasion and platform,” Erdoğan said during the 13th United Nations (UN) Conference on Trade and Development in Doha, Qatar.

Erdoğan said Turkey had hosted the Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries last May, and had vowed to follow the implementations in line with the Istanbul Action Plan and Declaration for the next decade.

“As the government, we have committed to extend every type of support to our investors in order to increase their direct investments in these countries to $10 billion by 2020,” he said.

Most importantly, Turkey has put into practice an economic and technical cooperation package envisaging the allocation of $200 million of resources to the least developed countries, he added.

Turkey made official development assistance worth $1 billion in 2010. “With these figures, Turkey has become the OECD member that has most increased its official development assistance,” the premier said, adding that this was concrete evidence of Turkey’s support to developing countries.

Turkey donates $1.3 billion to poor countries ~ Imposing Headlines

Turkey donates $1.3 billion to poor countries-HABERTÜRK

 

[Facebooks]

Is it Soft Loans (Buying from Turkey only) or Grants and Freebies?

And Who are the Countries?

Maybe Pakistan and Bangladesh.

 

[Hafizzz]

Is it Soft Loans (Buying from Turkey only) or Grants and Freebies?

And Who are the Countries?

Maybe Pakistan and Bangladesh.

As usual, Indians often drag Pakistan into every messages they post.

 

[Backbencher]

As usual, Indians often Pakistan into every messages they post.

and thats coming from Hafizzz . A man who posts 10 india centric thread on a daily basis .

 

[BronzePlaque]

Is it Soft Loans (Buying from Turkey only) or Grants and Freebies?

And Who are the Countries?

Maybe Pakistan and Bangladesh.

You can see the details here mate

ODA by Donor

and here

http://www.aideffectiveness.org/busanhlf4/en/countries/europe-and-the-cis/717.html

 

[darkinsky]

Is it Soft Loans (Buying from Turkey only) or Grants and Freebies?

And Who are the Countries?

Maybe Pakistan and Bangladesh.

ok, as if india is very rich

 

[Hafizzz]

and thats coming from Hafizzz . A man who posts 10 india centric thread on a daily basis .

That's because I was responding to all the anti-China and anti-Pakistan threads posted by Indians

 

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Turkey’s Performance as a New Donor

The average annual ODA volume for the period 2006-2009 was above 700 million USD. Despite the global economic crisis, total ODA of Turkey was 707 million USD in 2009 and did not fall below the 700 million USD. As a matter of fact, evaluated in terms of 2008 prices, the 2009 figure represents an increase of 1.63% according to official OECD data. In 2010, Turkey’s ODA reached 966 million USD.

In 2010 alone, Turkey provided development assistance to 131 countries that appear on the OECD/DAC list of aid recipients. According to OECD/DAC Development Cooperation Report, Turkey, which was the number one donor in 2006 among emerging donors, ranked second after the Republic of Korea both in 2007 and 2008 with ODA that amounted to 602 million USD and 780.37 million USD respectively.

The regional distribution of Turkey’s 2009 ODA shows that with a share of almost 45%, countries in South and Central Asia are still the main partners, followed by Balkan and Eastern European countries with a share of nearly 27%.

Africa and Middle Eastern countries, which are Turkey’s relatively more recent partners, received a share of almost one fourth of Turkish ODA. Aid delivered to Africa increased by 67% from 30.9 million USD to 71 million USD in 2010. Aid to the LDCs has increased to 158.95 USD million in 2010. The fact that Turkish aid has reached most of the countries in Africa shows Turkey’s aspiration of becoming an active development partner on the continent.

Afghanistan, an LDC, has been the major recipient of Turkish ODA in the last years.

From a sectoral approach, Turkey concentrated its aid efforts in economic and social infrastructure. Turkey spent more resources on education and health sector, and most of Turkey’s development cooperation projects between 2005 and 2010 mainly focused on the development of social infrastructure sector. The main reason behind this concentration can be attributed to Turkey’s demand-driven aid policy, that is, to respond to the call of recipient countries to deliver aid in sub-sectors such as education, health, water and sanitation, administrative and civil infrastructures which represent basic needs of people.

South-South cooperation forms an important aspect of Turkish development cooperation. According to the UN data, net disbursements of South-South cooperation (bilateral and multilateral) in 2007 in Colombia, the Republic of Korea, and Turkey were 343 million, 270 million, and 602 million USD respectively. Between 2002 and 2007, the amount increased by 3 times in Colombia, 4 times in the Republic of Korea, and 20 times in Turkey.

Turkey

 

[Android]

and thats coming from Hafizzz . A man who posts 10 india centric thread on a daily basis .

sometimes without even reading it

 

[BronzePlaque]

Guys come on..Dont turn this thread in to Pakistan-India flame war..and lets stick to the topic..Thank you

 

[Mosamania]

BAD idea. Now people will say Turkey is exporting terrorism and Kemalism to those countries. It is better to let them rot as they are.

 

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Two short films prepared by TIKA( Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency ) can be accessed through the links given below:
Afghanistan Efforts
[video]http://store.tika.gov.tr/DepoVideo/Nov11/23/Afganistan.flv[/video]
Kosovo Efforts
[video]http://store.tika.gov.tr/DepoVideo/Nov11/23/kosova.flv[/video]

 

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[BronzePlaque]

If you have nothing to contribute to the topic, please refrain yourself from posting such meaningless, worthless things and troll elsewhere

 

[xdrive]

This is nothing special.

Other countries have been doing this for years.