| dc.description.abstract | Germany has cooperated with Turkey since the late1950s. Cooperation between
the two countries was formalised on the 10th of Novementer 1970, when
the Federal Republic of Germany signed an official agreement on technical
cooperation with the Republic of Turkey (registered in the Official Gazette no.
13663). Today Turkey is an emerging economy. It is part of the Group of Twenty
(G-20) and the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
GIZ is Germany’s leading provider of international cooperation services, with
BMZ as its main commissioning party. GIZ has been operating since the 1st
of January 2011, when three governmental development agencies merged: The
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, the German
Development Service (DED) gGmbH and InWEnt – Capacity Building International,
Germany. Today, GIZ operates in 120 countries worldwide and has more than
20,000 employees around the globe, almost 70% of whom are national personnel.
In Turkey, GIZ established an office in Ankara in 1998 and a project hub in
Gaziantep in 2014.
Currently, the overarching focus of BMZ’s support to Turkey is to respond to the
influx of refugees entering the country since the onset of the war in Syria in
2011. Working on behalf of BMZ and the EU, GIZ provides technical support to
the Government of Turkey in the areas of employment and skills development,
education, social cohesion and capacity development, addressing the needs of
both the Turkish host community and Syrian refugees.
Beyond its BMZ-funded portfolio, GIZ also implements projects in Turkey on behalf
of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety (BMU) in the areas of renewable energies and energy efficiency.
GIZ has also been engaged in EU pre-accession assistance programmes through
its International Services Business Unit and implements a project co-financed
by DGECHO. | en_US |
