Disaster preparedness

A secret shelter built by former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in the southern Bosnian city of Kojnic against a possible nuclear attack has been taking travelers on a journey back through time since opening in 2001. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the global community to work together on disaster risk reduction.

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has received the 20th Ayd?n Do?an Award in a ceremony held in Istanbul, marking the first instance of a state institution being recognized by the Ayd?n Do?an Foundation. 

Turkey's disaster agency is not only housing and assisting the country's nearly 3 million refugees but also actively working to help 40 disaster-stricken countries around the world, the president of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has told daily Hürriyet upon receiving the 20th prestigious Ayd?n Do?an Award for its outstanding efforts in Turkey and abroad. 

The 20th Ayd?n Do?an Award has been granted to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) for its efforts in hosting and providing social services to over 2 million refugees fleeing the war in neighboring Syria. 

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has presented projects for the three billion euro fund the EU has agreed to provide for Syrian refugees, says AFAD's head, Fuat Oktay.

Around 92 percent of Turkey's mainland is on a seismic belt with 95 percent of its population living on it, said Fuat Oktay, head of the Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), in a written message published for the "1-7 March Week of Earthquake." 

A maternity and children's hospital in Somalia's capital built by a Turkish aid organization has opened.

Turkey's Helping Hands International Humanitarian Aid Association laid the foundation of the hospital in 2011 and today the hospital building was completed, Sadik Danisman, the president of the association, said on Feb. 25.        

Three people were killed on early Feb. 14 when a two-story house collapsed in a village in the southeastern province of Siirt.

The building, which housed 10 people from the same family, collapsed on early Feb. 14 for an unknown reason in Siirt's Ekmekçiler village.

Swedish IKEA is designing and constructing shelters for some 4 million refugees who have fled war in Syria as part of its “Better Shelter” program.