Press Centre: 2004
Press Releases for 2004:
December
31 December 2004: The Indian Ocean Disaster -- UNICEF warns that over one million children’s lives are at risk.
10 December 2004 (1): UNICEF’s flagship report, The State of the World’s Children 2005 Childhood Under Threat is launched in Turkey.
10 December 2004 (2): Mrs Emine Erdoğan speaks at the launch of the State of the World’s Children 2005 Report in Ankara, Turkey.
10 December 2004 (3): At the launch of the State of the World’s Children 2005 report in Turkey, panellists Cansu Aydın, Ramazan Etyemez, Canser Karadaş and Zeynep Koç discuss the issue of ‘Childhood Under Threat’ in the Turkish context.
September
4 September 2004: Head of Religious Affairs, Ali Bardakoğlu calls for imams to include the issue of girls’ education in their sermons.
3 September 2004: The Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign to increase enrolment rates for girls in primary education gains momentum in the eastern and south-eastern regions.
August
24 August 2004: Governor Temel Koçaklar underlined the success achieved in getting girls into school in Mardin through the Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign.
21 August 2004 (1): In a survey launched under the UNICEF campaign to support girls’ education, it was found that 4,068 girls in İzmir and its vicinity were not enrolled at school for various reasons.
21 August 2004 (2): The Governorate of İzmir launched a campaign to ensure girls’ primary school enrolment by changing the attitude of their parents.
19 August 2004: Twenty-five committed teachers in Bingöl went without their summer holidays in order to meet parents who were not sending their daughters to school and help change their minds.
July
14 July 2004: Turkey’s latest Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) presents good news about the state of Mother and Child Health at the beginning of the 21st century.
13 July 2004: As the 15th International AIDS Conference begins in Bangkok, a USAID, UNAIDS and UNICEF biennial report points the fact that numbers of orphans would be falling globally if it were not for AIDS.
1 July 2004: Sabah newspaper reports from the province of Siirt where both the education system and the economy are is undergoing revolutionary changes.
June
22 June 2004: One of the most dangerous and unfortunate consequences of social transformation in a developing country is child labour.
(Turkish Daily News)
2 June 2004: The Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign was nothing short of a fortunate event for the children of the Toprak family in Altındağ who were out of school for lack of funds.
(Sabah Newspaper)
1 June 2004 (1): Governors of 33 provinces where the joint Ministry of National Education--UNICEF campaign for girls’ education, Haydi Kızlar Okula! is in progress gathered at Dedeman Hotel, Ankara.
(Posta Newspaper)
1 June 2004 (2): Minister of Education Hüseyin Çelik said today that mothers who send their daughters to school would receive cash support of 35,000,000TL per month.
(Zaman Newspaper)
1 June 2004 (3): Haydi Kızlar Okula! -- UNICEF and the Ministry of National Education’s campaign to achieve gender parity in primary education -- enters the second phase with a declaration of support from the Governors of the thirty-three provinces where the campaign is currently active.
1 June 2004 (4): Four female teachers in Van are today no less than ‘angels’ in the eyes of the village they are serving and the children they are teaching.
(Sabah Newspaper)
March
24 March 2004: A steady improvement in breastfeeding pactices is reported in Turkey.
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