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29 September 2020, Tuesday Afyonkarahisar, TURKEY

Minister SELÇUK attended the opening of a nursing home in Afyonkarahisar


Family, Labor and Social Services Minister Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK, , said, "While we had a social program that did not even reach 2 billion in 2002, we are now delivering social assistance exceeding 55 billion to our citizens with our 43 social assistance programs."

SELÇUK, Afyonkarahisar's Emirdag district Fazlı Mecide Halac Nursing Home Aged Care and Rehabilitation Center in the opening of his speech in the last 18 years under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Afyonkarahisar'a close to 24 billion pounds of public investment was made, he said. SELÇUK, "We as the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services have contributed 3 billion pounds of these investments. We currently have 4 social service center, women's guesthouse and 13 children's homes in Afyonkarahisar." Minister SELÇUk, the city is a maintenance and rehabilitation center connected to the Ministry, emphasizing, noted:

"We also provide day care services in this center. We have four special disability care center. In 2002, when we had a social program that did not even reach 2 billion liras, we are currently delivering more than 55 billion social assistance to our citizens through our 43 social assistance programs. Almost 2 billion pounds of this almost 43 different social assistance programs in 18 years we have forwarded to Afyonkarahisar. Currently, close to 30 thousand families in Afyonkarahisar are taking advantage of these social assistance programs. Through İSKUR, many of our employees are getting a job both here and abroad. In 2019, we put 10,000 people to work in Afyonkarahisar. We continue to support Afyonkarahisar with our incentives to our employers."

“ We believe that no one in Turkey is left without helpless"

Selçuk expressed that the fight against covid-19 epidemic continues in Turkey as well as around the world, and they announced a number of applications and support programs called "Social Protection Shield" as the Ministry regarding Covid-19.

SELÇUK, citizens, employees, employers against the epidemic, noting that they have taken measures to protect employment, the Ministry of Kovid-19 within the scope of the outbreak reported that the amount of support they give across Turkey is close to 35 billion pounds. 184 million pounds of this 35 billion lire afyonkarahisar'a selçuk, said:

"Among them, we tried to support Afyonkarahisar with our programs such as Short Work Allowance, Cash Wage Support and Unemployment Benefit. Again, under the leadership of our President, we started the 'We Are Enough Turkey' campaign for all of Turkey to have salt in this soup. More than 2 billion pounds of donations were collected in the campaign. We continue to deliver these donations to citizens. We've delivered more than 90 percent now. In the campaign, we delivered our assistance to more than 16 thousand needy people in Afyonkarahisar. We believe that no one is 'helpless' in Turkey. Our state is always behind our citizens and together we believe that we will survive this period of epidemic."

 "There is now a Turkey that protects its citizens in every stage, every sense"

Almost 9 percent of Turkey's population is made up of citizens aged 65 and older, this number is expected to reach 8.6 million people in 2023 and 19.4 million people in 2050, minister Selcuk said, "We are a society that crowns the elderly. There have been many painful days in America, in the heart of Europe, where the elderly are left to die. While the Kovid-19 outbreak has suffered the most losses in nursing homes, we are spending it in Turkey with the least damage, the least casualties." homes, disabled-aged nursing homes, explaining that they have taken very strict measures SELÇUK, said:

"We continue with the highest measures, the most strictest measures, to protect them. In this process, we have become one of the ministries that play the most effective role in the fight against the epidemic. Something good happened during this period. We have activated VEFA Social Support teams in the field. As the name suggests, it was a beautiful formation. In order to reach the homes of our elderly and to be locked in a difficult time, our friends, gendarmes, police friends, friends in National Education, Diyanet, NGOs reached out to our citizens through VEFA Social Support Groups and continued to address their needs, knocked on their doors, asked for their state of affairs. In this way, we have delivered the food, medicine and needs of our elderly people and citizens with chronic conditions to their homes thanks to our VEFA volunteers. Therefore, until the end of this process, we will continue both our awareness-raising efforts and our preventive preventive activities with the same care." Emphasizing that the greats constitute the social memory, past, today and also tomorrow of a country, SELÇUK said, "We will build a more conscious civilization by taking their prayers and transferring their experience and experience to the younger generations. There is a very strong Turkey in social services, social weeds. There is now a Turkey that protects its citizens at every stage, in every sense. Access to social services is getting easier every day." Behind the speeches, Minister SELÇUK and other members of the protocol cut the ribbon and opened the center.