Turkey

Turkish activities for the IYO

Turkish scouts activities during the Year:

1. Last summer scouts and guides worked in Antalya bay with the help of the Turkish Maritime Protection Association:

• they put signs on the small islands for seals

• they collected 8 tons of garbage

• they joined clean up the world event in September

2. We put the ocean98 news to most popular sailing magazine information about ocean98 and Youth Declaration of 3rd session of Youth forum of UN System.

3.Now scouts visiting responsible people of Government, Media, NGO's and giving a copy of Youth Declarations for Oceans, and My Ocean Charter in Turkish.

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4. The Turkish Scouting Association is preparing grand scale project for clean up the Black Sea and we advertised it in our stand at World Jamboree at Chile where 30000 scouts from 170 countries participated.

For More info

Captain U. Savas Baran
bsavas@marketweb.net.tr