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The Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA) has delivered to Tunisia 434 vehicles, some of which had previously been delivered, as part of an aid package worth more than $35 million.
Part of the aid TİKA delivered on Monday includes training that Turkey will provide to the police and gendarmerie forces of the North African country.
The new vehicles, which were delivered in a ceremony following a meeting of Tunisia's recently elected prime minister, Ali Larayedh, and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ at the Prime Ministry in Tunis, included street sweepers, earthmovers and motorcycles, while six riot control vehicles are at Tunisian Customs waiting for delivery. The talks between Bozdağ and Larayedh, the minister of interior in the previous government, mark a first in that Bozdağ is the first foreign guest Larayedh has received in his role as prime minister.
Thanking the Turkish government for the aid package, at the ceremony on Monday Larayedh said, We aim to further improve our relations with Turkey, noting that the aid is a significant contribution for Tunisia's development. Bozdağ responded by saying that Turkey is glad to share its experiences with its brother Tunisia. "Our country is on the side of the Tunisian people with all the resources it has," Bozdağ added. Turkey has also offered in total $500 million to Tunisia, $100 million of which are donations, while $400 million is a loan.
Thirty four-wheel drives and 40 standard pick-up trucks, 60 minibuses, five buses, 30 police cars and 100 police motorcycles have been delivered to the Tunisian Ministry of Interior as part of a project to modernize the Tunisian police force. In another major project, TİKA, which has had an office in Tunisia since last year, is helping municipalities in the country boost the quality of their services. To this end, a total of 32 garbage trucks, 30 street sweeper vehicles and 50 earthmovers -- all of which will be distributed to all the 24 municipalities in the country -- have also been delivered in donation.
Since Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution took place two years ago, ending the 23-year rule of a dictator president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Turkey and Tunisia have reinforced their cooperation in many areas. The two countries signed a cooperation agreement of development and technical assistance in October of last year. The agreement calls for cooperation in the areas of agriculture, food, water resources, infrastructure, energy, tourism, education and scientific research. There has also been a revolution in political and economic relations between Tunisia and Turkey, Tunisian Investment and International Cooperation Minister Riadh Bettaieb told Today's Zaman to describe the level of bilateral relations between the two countries.
In an effort to knit closer ties, Turkey and Tunisia also established a high-level strategic cooperation council between the two countries at the end of last year when Tunisian former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali visited Ankara. Turkish and Tunisian officials signed an agreement in early January to create an industrial zone in Tunisia, planned for a 100-hectare area in Grand Tunis, in the northern part of the capital, also called Nahli. The trade volume between the two countries stood at a modest $1 billion in 2012.
Tunisia's new government, which won a vote of confidence at parliament last week, is a coalition led by a moderate Islamist party, Ennahda. The transition government, backed by 139 of parliament's 217 members, is to serve only until the general election expected to be held towards the end of the year.
TİKA, which has 35 offices around the world, has increased the number of its offices in Africa by 30 percent following a recent drought on the continent. Turkey offered foreign development aid worth $2.63 billion to about 100 countries around the world in 2011.
In 2011, South and Central Asian countries received 46 percent of this aid, while the Middle East received 23 percent, Africa 22 percent and Balkan states 6.3 percent. Countries that received the greatest amount aid were Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Palestine.
Turkey aims to reach out, through TİKA, to all the 48 least developed countries (LDC) in the world. TİKA is already active in 30 of these countries and hopes to launch projects in all by the end of this year. In 2011, Turkey's total aid to the LDCs reached $279 million.
In May 2011, İstanbul hosted the United Nations Conference on LDCs, a category of countries distinguished not only by widespread poverty but also by the structural weakness of economic, institutional and human resources. There are 33 African, 14 Pacific and one Latin American state among the LDC countries, many of which suffer from deadly diseases such as malaria, hepatitis and tetanus. TİKA has almost 10 offices in Africa, and has so far undertaken 1,757 projects in 37 African countries.
TİKA also contributes greatly to Turkey's foreign policy. If TİKA did not have the capacity to extend to Africa, we wouldn't be able to make projects to win Africans hearts, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu once said.
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Part of the aid TİKA delivered on Monday includes training that Turkey will provide to the police and gendarmerie forces of the North African country.
The new vehicles, which were delivered in a ceremony following a meeting of Tunisia's recently elected prime minister, Ali Larayedh, and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ at the Prime Ministry in Tunis, included street sweepers, earthmovers and motorcycles, while six riot control vehicles are at Tunisian Customs waiting for delivery. The talks between Bozdağ and Larayedh, the minister of interior in the previous government, mark a first in that Bozdağ is the first foreign guest Larayedh has received in his role as prime minister.
Thanking the Turkish government for the aid package, at the ceremony on Monday Larayedh said, We aim to further improve our relations with Turkey, noting that the aid is a significant contribution for Tunisia's development. Bozdağ responded by saying that Turkey is glad to share its experiences with its brother Tunisia. "Our country is on the side of the Tunisian people with all the resources it has," Bozdağ added. Turkey has also offered in total $500 million to Tunisia, $100 million of which are donations, while $400 million is a loan.
Thirty four-wheel drives and 40 standard pick-up trucks, 60 minibuses, five buses, 30 police cars and 100 police motorcycles have been delivered to the Tunisian Ministry of Interior as part of a project to modernize the Tunisian police force. In another major project, TİKA, which has had an office in Tunisia since last year, is helping municipalities in the country boost the quality of their services. To this end, a total of 32 garbage trucks, 30 street sweeper vehicles and 50 earthmovers -- all of which will be distributed to all the 24 municipalities in the country -- have also been delivered in donation.
Since Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution took place two years ago, ending the 23-year rule of a dictator president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Turkey and Tunisia have reinforced their cooperation in many areas. The two countries signed a cooperation agreement of development and technical assistance in October of last year. The agreement calls for cooperation in the areas of agriculture, food, water resources, infrastructure, energy, tourism, education and scientific research. There has also been a revolution in political and economic relations between Tunisia and Turkey, Tunisian Investment and International Cooperation Minister Riadh Bettaieb told Today's Zaman to describe the level of bilateral relations between the two countries.
In an effort to knit closer ties, Turkey and Tunisia also established a high-level strategic cooperation council between the two countries at the end of last year when Tunisian former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali visited Ankara. Turkish and Tunisian officials signed an agreement in early January to create an industrial zone in Tunisia, planned for a 100-hectare area in Grand Tunis, in the northern part of the capital, also called Nahli. The trade volume between the two countries stood at a modest $1 billion in 2012.
Tunisia's new government, which won a vote of confidence at parliament last week, is a coalition led by a moderate Islamist party, Ennahda. The transition government, backed by 139 of parliament's 217 members, is to serve only until the general election expected to be held towards the end of the year.
TİKA, which has 35 offices around the world, has increased the number of its offices in Africa by 30 percent following a recent drought on the continent. Turkey offered foreign development aid worth $2.63 billion to about 100 countries around the world in 2011.
In 2011, South and Central Asian countries received 46 percent of this aid, while the Middle East received 23 percent, Africa 22 percent and Balkan states 6.3 percent. Countries that received the greatest amount aid were Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Palestine.
Turkey aims to reach out, through TİKA, to all the 48 least developed countries (LDC) in the world. TİKA is already active in 30 of these countries and hopes to launch projects in all by the end of this year. In 2011, Turkey's total aid to the LDCs reached $279 million.
In May 2011, İstanbul hosted the United Nations Conference on LDCs, a category of countries distinguished not only by widespread poverty but also by the structural weakness of economic, institutional and human resources. There are 33 African, 14 Pacific and one Latin American state among the LDC countries, many of which suffer from deadly diseases such as malaria, hepatitis and tetanus. TİKA has almost 10 offices in Africa, and has so far undertaken 1,757 projects in 37 African countries.
TİKA also contributes greatly to Turkey's foreign policy. If TİKA did not have the capacity to extend to Africa, we wouldn't be able to make projects to win Africans hearts, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu once said.
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