Natural Disasters in Turkey

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This paper discusses the ability of Turkish authorities to cope with natural disasters that occur in the region. It looks at how they reacted to the 1999 Marmara sea region earthquake and the 2000 flooding and discusses how these events challenged the power of the Turkish state to properly ensure the security of its population. The paper then looks at the areas Turkey must improve in order to prevent such massive loss of lives and damages from occurring again.

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"Overall, taking into account the serious conditions facing Turkey in terms of natural disasters, it can be said that the authorities have acquired an important and useful experience from the past. The 1999 earthquake and the 2000 floods proved the devastation natural disasters can produce and their tragic impact on the human society. Therefore, in order to reduce to the minimum the impact natural disasters have on the human security in Turkey, more action and initiative must be taken in terms of a functional early warning system, as well as in the area of improving the conditions of rivers and their banks."

Sample of Sources Used:

• FEMA. "Urban Search and Rescue." US Department of Homeland Security.28 Feb. 2007. 11 Nov. 2007 <http://www.fema.gov/emergency/usr/>
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. "Turkey: Floods Information Bulletin No. 1." Relief Web. 2 Nov. 2006. 11 Nov. 2007 <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKEE-6V6QZA?OpenDocument>
• Long, Cynthia. "American Red Cross Assists Turkey With Quake Response". Red Cross website. 2000. 11 Nov. 2007 <http://www.redcross.org/news/archives/2000/5-8-00.html>
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. "Addressing natural disaster reduction: Urban Search and Rescue: Turkey." Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Mar. 2005. 11 Nov. 2007 <http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_en_24637.pdf>
• United Nations Resident Coordinator. "Recent Natural Disasters in Turkey: An Overview of the National Technological Capacity and Its Utilization." Relief Web. 5 Jul 2000. 11 Nov. 2007 <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64CM6F?OpenDocument>

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