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Turkey, host of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, has launched a programme to raise hazard awareness among the three million Syrians who have fled there (Photo: European Parliament)
Refugees and migrants must be included in efforts to reduce the risk of disasters, experts said this week at a European conference.
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Mr. Halis Bilden, President of Turkey’s AFAD disaster management authority, brings down the gavel on the Istanbul conference (Photo: AFAD)
A European conference today set out the continent’s stance for the looming 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, underscoring the need to rein in the impacts of natural and human-induced hazards.
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Robert Glasser, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (left) presents the Damir Cemerin Award to Erkan Samiloglu of Turkey's Ministry of Youth and Sports, watched by Mahmut Baş of fellow laureate the Directorate of Earthquake and Ground Research, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (centre right), and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak (Photo: AFAD)
Turkey’s efforts to curb the threat of earthquakes and harness the power of youth to tackle hazards have been honoured with a pan-European award for innovative approaches to reducing disaster risk.
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The Turkish metropolis of Istanbul is the host for the latest meeting of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, which groups countries from across the continent and has catalysed efforts to curb the threats posed by hazards (Photo: Pedro Szekely)
Hundreds of delegates are heading to Istanbul for Europe’s top disaster risk reduction forum, two months before a global conference takes aim at natural and human-induced hazards.
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The High School Students Summit saw 360 participants from 30 countries spotlight the issue of reducing tsunami risk (Photo: UNISDR)
Hundreds of high school students from around the world have pledged to step up efforts to reduce disaster risk, at a global gathering held to mark the first edition of World Tsunami Awareness Day.
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Turkey takes charge of the European Forum: Mr. Erkan Koparmal (left), strategic chief at its disaster management body AFAD, receives the gavel from Mr. Taito Vainio, senior adviser at the Interior Ministry of outgoing president Finland (Photo: UNISDR).
Turkey took the helm of Europe’s top disaster risk reduction forum today, ahead of a new drive by the continent’s governments to widen efforts to curb the threats posed by natural and man-made hazards.
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Warning signs are a critical way to raise public awareness of the risk of tsunamis. Israel dotted its coast with them in the run-up to an exercise this year. (Photo: National Emergency Management Authority of Israel)
Scientists and disaster risk experts from the Mediterranean and beyond have vowed to step up efforts to raise awareness among the general public of how to react to the threat of tsunamis.
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The 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami claimed tens of thousands of lives. Tsunami risk has a low profile in Europe, but the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts have been hit by deadly waves throughout history.
Nations on the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a regionwide alert role.
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This paper briefly describes the new strategic approach of Turkey in order to reduce earthquake-related losses. National Earthquake Strategy and Action Plan of Turkey (UDSEP-2023) is a national roadmap in order to reduce earthquake-related losses by 2023

This paper focuses on changes in the disaster regulatory system and societal pattern in Turkey, and examines the failures with all their facets considering re-adjustments, accomplishments and malfunctioning. The purpose of the paper is to indicate the

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