Press Centre: 2006
Press Releases for 2006:
November
17 November Dr. Nafis Sadik, one of three special envoys of the UN Secretary General for HIV/AIDS, visited Turkey on 14-15 November 2006.
9 November (1): The Minister of National Education, Dr Hüseyin Çelik, unveiled six new television advertisements and other materials targeting violence in the education environment at a press conference in the East Anatolian provincial centre of Elazığ on October 13.
9 November (2): Fortifying flour with essential vitamins and minerals would greatly reduce maternal mortality, birth defects such as spina bifida, and protect the brain, blood and muscle tissue of children and women, said UNICEF, ahead of a meeting of the flour milling industry in İstanbul.
August
10 August: Once again we are witnessing how children pay the price of war. Of those who have lost their lives or have been wounded since the commencement of hostilities in the Lebanon, one in three are children.
July
13 July (1) UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Mr. Kul Gautam has poured lavish praise on Turkey’s recent efforts to improve the lot of children and women, but at the same time cautioned that there is still much to be done.
13 July (2) Best friends Nergiz (12) and Hanım (13) have come to school to meet us, willingly interrupting their summer break.
13 July (3) This is a good school. It’s better than the others,
one young teenager confided in me as we crossed the yard, surrounded by bright childish murals of balloons, animals and flowers.
June
13 June: The Third Intergovernmental Conference on Making Europe and Central Asia Fit for Children.
May
18 May: The Government of Turkey hosts a conference on Child Poverty with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 12-13 June 2006.
April
19 April (1): Turkey’s Ministry of National Education and UNICEF launch drive to eradicate violence from school
19 April (2): A series of seven seminars designed to assess awareness of children’s rights amongst journalists, lawyers and academics and to promote ethical reporting about children and children’s issues were conducted in the provinces of Adana, Ankara, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Kocaeli, Muğla, and Samsun.
February
2 February (1) Sumru Kutlu, a senior programme assistant from the UNICEF office, is trying to find out how much these women know about how to protect themselves and their families.
2 February (2): Selami developed a slight cough and a temperature on January 6 this year while staying with his grandfather’s family in a village some 80 kilometres east of the city.
January
23 January 2006: The total number of human cases confirmed to have been infected by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza or ‘bird flu’ in Turkey remains unchanged at 21. Four people have died from infection to date -- all of them children.
19 January 2006: An EU-financed project Towards Good Governance, Protection and Justice for Children in Turkey
or Children First was launched on 20th January 2006 at the Hilton Hotel, Ankara.
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