Coordination Agency

An annual international photography exhibition, the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021, kicked off in Turkey's capital Ankara on Oct. 11.

Anadolu Agency Chairman of the Board and Director-General Serdar Karagöz began his speech with a sound of intensive care unit to mark the story of the winning photo from Bangladesh.

Turkey is helping Palestinians in Gaza who need eye removal surgeries and ocular prostheses due to severe injuries suffered in Israeli attacks. 

Badly damaged eyes have to be surgically removed and replaced with prosthetic ones, and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) is financing the procedure for 10 Palestinians, the agency said in a statement.

Two Turkish military airplanes carrying a third batch of medical supplies to help Somalia fight coronavirus arrived in the
capital Mogadishu on May 4. 

The shipment followed two previous batches of medical aid, including new Turkish-made ventilators last week.

Medical aid from Turkey came at a time when the government needed it the most, Palestinian Authority's deputy foreign minister said April 30.

"This help meets the needs of Palestine in a critical period when the Palestinian budget is inadequate and the economy is negatively affected by the coronavirus outbreak," Ahmad ed-Dijk told Anadolu Agency.

Turkey's aid agency has set up a 400-seat auditorium for Pakistani students in the county's southern Sindh province. 

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) distributed meat on Aug. 23, the third day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, to 10,000 families in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Turkey's first shipment of humanitarian aid arrived on Sept. 6 in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has said.       
Some 1,000 tons of emergency aid packages containing rice, dried fish and clothing were delivered to the Social Services Ministry in the Rakhine state at a handover ceremony, according to the statement.  
  

Attacks by opposition parties against the government over its perceived failure to keep its promises of assistance to the Gaza Strip appear to have prompted a top Turkish agency to list in detail the country's assistance to Gaza, which has long been strangled by blockades, war and poor governance.