ISTANBUL (PIC)– The Turkish Cooperation and Development “TIKA” in Palestine announced that its development projects in Palestine had reached approximately about U.S. $ 118 million within 7 years.
TIKA coordinator Kursat Mahmat told Anatolia news agency “We opened our office in Palestine in Ramallah in 2005 and have supported the Palestinian people with hundreds of projects since then.”
Some of these projects are supply potable water school and hospital construction projects and the renovation of reliefs in the al-Masjid al-Aqsa Mosque he added.
He pointed out that it is difficult to know the overall Turkish aid to Palestine due to the large number of nongovernmental associations operating in Palestine led by the Turkish Red Crescent Society.
The agency has recently opened 10 potable water stations and funded 7 trucks purchased to enable 340 schools in Gaza to have potable water.
TIKA coordinator in Palestine Rami Sab Laban told Anatolia news agency that the governmental agency is so proud of offering support to the Palestinian people.
In the same context the agency has discussed with the municipality Abasan al-Kabera in the southern Gaza Strip the project of constructing Olive press in Khan Younis.
The mayor Mustafa Shawaf said that the project consists in constructing of olive press that probably cost 581 thousand dollars of which the Turkish government contributes 361 thousand dollars. He added that the project will draw 71 to 81 thousand dollars during the olive harvest.
