(GEN) TURKISH RELIEF ORGANIZATION OPENS DISASTER COORDINATION CENTER IN PAKISTAN.ISLAMABAD, Oct 26, 2009 (TUR) -- Turkish relief organization, Turk Kizilayi (Red Crescent), opened a "Disaster Coordination and Logistics Center" in Pakistan. President Raja Zulqarnain Khan of the autonomous region of Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir: see Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir State (pop., 2001: 10,143,700), northern India. With an area of 39,146 sq mi (101,387 sq km), it occupies the southern portion of the Kashmir region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent and is , and Tekin Kucukali, director-general of Turkish Red Crescent Kızılay or the Turkish Red Crescent (full name in Turkish: Türkiye Kızılay Derneği) is the largest humanitarian organization in Turkey and is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. , inaugurated the center. "We established the biggest and most equipped disaster coordination center of the region in Pakistan. Turkish Red Crescent is the first relief organization which arrived in the region during the devastating quake disaster of 2005 which killed 76 thousand people and left thousands of others homeless," Kucukali said. The center offers uninterrupted communication opportunities with four different provinces of Pakistan in case of a natural disaster. It also has the capacity to arrange international relief operations. The center cost about 2.2 million USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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