Aid

One in every eight people in Turkey is in need of aid, according to statistics released by the Family and Social Policies Ministry upon a parliamentary question submitted by independent Ankara lawmaker Aylin Nazlıaka. 

The ministry said social aid was given to a total of 10,610,928 people in 2016, daily Birgün reported on June 23.

It was December in northern Syria and the temperature was dropping fast. Local militias fighting the Islamic State had suffered heavy casualties after a tough battle, and U.S. special operations forces urgently needed to get blankets to their partners. They turned to a small charity run by Jim Hake, a former venture capitalist who made his fortune on tech startups in California.

Narrowing the gap between rich and poor is key to avoiding a destructive rise in populism, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on April 22 as he laid out a plan to boost private investment in Africa.

The Bulgarian government approved the provision of humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria. The aid totalled to EUR 300,000, provided from the approved funds of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget for official development support and humanitarian aid, the government information service announced, quoted by Focus News Agency.

Bulgaria is among the eight countries of the European Union in which people live with a considerably higher risk of poverty compared to the bloc's richer members, EU statistics suggest., quoted by BNR.

Romania, Latvia and Lithuania are the riskiest among the eight countries, and Bulgaria ranks fifth in the chart.

A modest recovery underway in the global economy is at risk from economic nationalism and diverging central bank policies, the OECD said on March 7 as it forecast only a slight pick-up in growth.

The issue of first-aid services is threatening to further delay the delivery date of 14 regional airports to contractor Fraport Greece, currently set for mid-March.

The European Union has announced that it will allocate EUR 18 M in humanitarian aid for the population that suffered from the war in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

At least half of the funds will be used to help residents in the territories outside the control of the Ukrainian government.

The United Nations appealed Feb. 8 for $2.1 billion to provide desperately needed aid to millions of people in war-ravaged Yemen this year, warning the country could soon face famine.

"Two years of war have devastated Yemen and millions of children, women and men desperately need our help," warned U.N. humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien in a statement, AFP reported.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu on Feb. 3 inaugurated a Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA) office in Mexico City.      

Speaking at its opening ceremony, Çavuşoğlu praised TİKA for its role in humanitarian diplomacy and said the office would enhance cooperation between the two countries.