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Mission Turkey

CHIFFRES

Mortality infant: 33‰
Life expectancy at birth: 68.7
HDI: 0.750; ranked 94/177
Actual GDP/inhabitant ($): 3,399

Beneficiaries
> directly project 1: pregnant women
and infants
> directly project 2: human rights defenders and prisoners who are victims of state violence
> indirectly project 1: 4,000
Staff
> local project 1: 5 paid staff and occasional volunteer workers as it is officially illegal to give permanent assistance.
> expatriate project 2: 6 on occasional projects
Co-ordinators
> project 1: G. de Castelnau
> project 2: B. Granjon
> follow-up projects 1 and 2: DR PACA
Source of funding
> projects 1 and 2: Bouches-du- Rhône department council
Budget
> 2005 project 1: 13,627 euros
> 2005 project 2: 7,534 euros

Caring for the most destitute

Ayasma shanty town

Activities:

Medical and welfare care of the inhabitants, mainly displaced Kurds, of Ayasma district:

  • healthcare for women and children;
  • social and educational activities aimed at children, young
    people and women.

In partnership with Solidarité et Liberté (a Marseilles-based organisation):

  • local partnership implementing a medical and welfare project combining healthcare, education and training (pre-school education, literacy);
  • human rights monitoring , especially the right to health.

Outlook:

Monitor health, continue current activities and prepare to close the centre at the end of 2006. Examine whether to transfer the project to another suburban area of Istanbul housing mainly displaced Kurds.

Supporting the victims of political violence

Istanbul

Activities:

MdM provides medical and psychosocial assistance to human rights defenders fighting against Turkish repression, through:

  • supporting human rights defenders in three organisations (IHD, Goc'Der, Tuhad);
  • assistance in trials of human rights defenders;
  • testifying; a second assessment of patients whose state of health was judged compatible with their being reimprisoned by doctors close to the government was sent to the European Court of Human Rights, and led to suspension measures and sanctions against the original doctors.

Outlook :

Monitor how the situation develops and adapt MdM'S actions.

July 2006