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Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has provided welding and metalwork training in the Republic of Guinea.
According to a written statement from TIKA, 36 trainees underwent the 45-day program aimed at increasing employment in the western African country.
Ten students from Turkey volunteered in projects in Serbia as part of a special program of the Turkish state aid agency.The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) experience-sharing program aims to instill in Turkish students a sense of volunteership with various projects across the world.For a week the volunteer team carried out a number of cultural and charitable projects and activities in Serbia."The young people helped organize a wonderful, effective, high-energy program," Çagla Gültekin Tosbat, TIKA’s Belgrade program coordinator, told Anadolu Agency.Turkish students volunteer in Niger, Tanzania, DjiboutiThe volunteer students helped clean and clear an Ottoman cemetery in Novi Pazar, a majority-Muslim city in southern Serbia.They also visited the Valide Sultan Mosque, which was renovated by TIKA in the city of Sjenica, in western Serbia.In 1870, Valide Sultan -- the only remaining imperial mosque in Serbia -- was built by the Pertevniyal Sultan, the mother of the 32nd Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz, who reigned from 1861 to 1876.Turkish students begin voluntary work in NigerOn the last day of the program, the group visited the 15th-century Ottoman Ram Castle renovated by TIKA in the town of Veliko Gradiste in eastern Serbia.Turkish Airlines, Anadolu Agency, and the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) were TIKA’s partners in the program.For its 2018 Experience-Sharing Program, TIKA will send some 500 Turkish students from 117 universities to 30 countries between July 29 and Sept. 8. The students will take part in nearly 100 projects and activities in their host countries.The program covers such far-flung countries as Niger, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Djibouti, Chad, Morocco, Ghana, Georgia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Colombia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mozambique, Namibia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Jordan, Moldova, and South Africa.
Turkish students volunteer in Serbia
The trainees included teachers, students, technicians and industrial technicians who received certificates signed by TIKA president and Guinean Technical Affairs Ministry at the end of the training program.
Practical training
Ismail Gürlek, TIKA's Coordinator in Guinea told Anadolu Agency that necessary equipment used during the training program were provided by the agency.
Those who successfully completed the program will travel to Turkey to learn about the Turkish industry, Gürlek said.
A fleet of buses Turkey gifted Guinea are now plying the streets of the capital Conakry, the Turkish ambassador said.Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Hatice Nur Sağman, head of the Turkish diplomatic mission in Guinea, said that some of the buses provided by the Turkish government started running in Conakry as of August 1, while the rest of the buses would start their service soon.Fifty city buses were presented by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Guinean President Alpha Conde during a visit to Guinea in March 2016. "The buses along with spare parts started being delivered by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality with the support of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) to the competent authorities in the country in July 2016," she said.Sağman noted that the operations and management of the buses were given to a Turkish company in accordance with an agreement made with the Conakry Municipality."The buses were foreseen to be used by 6,000 people but reached 10,000 passengers due to the intense interest of the people," she added. Sağman emphasized that this act will strengthen friendly relations between the two countries and open the way for more comprehensive joint projects in the future.TIKA's Guinea Coordinator Ismail Gurlek said that after the maintenance, repair and technical training provided by the Turkish expert team, the 20 buses with the pilot scheme started its 28-kilometer route from Autonome Port of Conakry to Dabompa.Turkish students volunteer in Niger, Tanzania, DjiboutiGürlek also added that TIKA is working hard to realize more useful projects in the country.During Erdoğan's visit to Guinea, nine agreements were signed between the two countries in the fields of tourism, aviation, medicine, military, electricity, hydrocarbons, mining, environmental control and works council.Guinea was the last stop in Erdoğan's four-nation tour of West Africa. He visited the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria before arriving in Guinea in 2016.Nearly 150 Turkish businesspeople joined Erdoğan during his tour.
Turkish buses ply streets of Guinean capital