In de NRC probeerde NAVO-ambassadeur Daan Everts vrijdag “helderheid” te brengen in het debat over de ISAF-missie in Uruzgan. Zijn conclusie is min of meer ook een vraag: “Laat Afghanen niet opnieuw in de steek”. Opvallend is het voorbeeld van Turkije dat hij aanhaalt.
Daan Everts over civiel opbouwwerk en Turkije
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Drie burgers gedood en 20-tal ISAF-militairen gewond
Een hoge Afghaanse politiefunctionaris heeft gezegd dat zondag bij een luchtaanval van de ISAF-veiligheidsmacht in de provincie Wardak drie burgers het leven hebben verloren. Zeven burgers raakten gewond. Ongeveer 20 ISAF-militairen zouden gewond zijn geraakt.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
NATO-ISAF-militairen uit Turkije in Afghanistan leveren hulpgoederen af
Het Turkse Civiel-Militaire Coöperatie Team (CIMIC) en gevechtsgroep van Regional Command Capital heeft onlangs putten geslagen en medisch materiaal gegeven als onderdeel van de operatie Shukran.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Afghan policemen graduated
On May 30 graduating police trainees were presented certificates in a ceremony after learning critical skills to allow them to do their jobs more effectively. The Turkish battle group commander chief colonel Hasan Usyilmaz was presiding at the ceremony.
The training will be very useful for the afghan policemen in dealing with stabilizing the area and provision of secure environment, according to NATO-ISAF sources.
The Turkish Camp Dogan hosted the course which consisted of road control and road blocking, vehicle and personnel searching, response to social incidents and introduction to military police equipment.
Turkey is with 1.200 soldiers in Afghanistan and is leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Wardak since November 2006. Wardak is a province in central east Afghanistan, located west of Kabul.
Turkey was leading the NATO-ISAF mission in Afghanistan from June 2002 until February 2003 (ISAF II; under Major General Hilmi Akin Zorlu), and from February 2005 until August 2005, (ISAF VII), under General Ethem Erdagi.
The training will be very useful for the afghan policemen in dealing with stabilizing the area and provision of secure environment, according to NATO-ISAF sources.
The Turkish Camp Dogan hosted the course which consisted of road control and road blocking, vehicle and personnel searching, response to social incidents and introduction to military police equipment.
Turkey is with 1.200 soldiers in Afghanistan and is leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Wardak since November 2006. Wardak is a province in central east Afghanistan, located west of Kabul.
Turkey was leading the NATO-ISAF mission in Afghanistan from June 2002 until February 2003 (ISAF II; under Major General Hilmi Akin Zorlu), and from February 2005 until August 2005, (ISAF VII), under General Ethem Erdagi.
The ISAF-Turkey presence in Afghanistan
Turkey To Open 27th Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan
(November 2006)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2006 – Turkey will open the 27th of 34 Provincial Reconstruction Teams planned for Afghanistan later this week, officials in Bagram, Afghanistan announced today.
The new PRT, in Wardak province, will assist Afghan authorities with reconstruction efforts and enhance development and stability within the province, according to Army Col. Thomas Collins, spokesman for Combined Forces Command Afghanistan.
The PRT will focus on providing health care, education, police training and agricultural alternatives to local farmers, Collins said. Its projects will be structured to meet the benchmarks of the Afghanistan Compact Document and the Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy.
Although the PRT won’t open officially until Nov. 9, Turkish representatives already have started what they call “quick impact assistance projects” before the official opening ceremony, officials said.
These include construction of:
* Primary girls’ schools in Nirkh, Jalriz and Saidabad districts;
* A childbirth and comprehensive health-care center in the Desti Dut region of Saidabad district;
* A recreational sports center;
* A children’s park in Maidan Shar;
* A vocational agriculture school and student dormitory; and
* A water tank and cold storage facility.
These projects are valued at about $3 million U.S. dollars, officials said.
Turkey also has started a humanitarian assistance project for the Wardak people, officials said.
The first phase of the project, which cost $300,000, will deliver 150 tons of flour, 150 tons of rice, 150 tons of beans, 30 tons of sugar, 30 tons of oil and 6 tons of tea to some 6,000 needy families in eight districts.
An official ceremony today at the Wardak Governor’s Building will launch the delivery of this humanitarian aid, officials said.
Turkey has participated in the International Security Assistance Force since its inception and was in command of ISAF II and ISAF VII.
On Aug. 7, Turkey also took command responsibility for Regional Command Central, with the help of partners France and Italy.
(From a Combined Forces Command Afghanistan news release.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2026
(Note: this was the 25th PRT in Afghanistan, (ed.)
(November 2006)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2006 – Turkey will open the 27th of 34 Provincial Reconstruction Teams planned for Afghanistan later this week, officials in Bagram, Afghanistan announced today.
The new PRT, in Wardak province, will assist Afghan authorities with reconstruction efforts and enhance development and stability within the province, according to Army Col. Thomas Collins, spokesman for Combined Forces Command Afghanistan.
The PRT will focus on providing health care, education, police training and agricultural alternatives to local farmers, Collins said. Its projects will be structured to meet the benchmarks of the Afghanistan Compact Document and the Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy.
Although the PRT won’t open officially until Nov. 9, Turkish representatives already have started what they call “quick impact assistance projects” before the official opening ceremony, officials said.
These include construction of:
* Primary girls’ schools in Nirkh, Jalriz and Saidabad districts;
* A childbirth and comprehensive health-care center in the Desti Dut region of Saidabad district;
* A recreational sports center;
* A children’s park in Maidan Shar;
* A vocational agriculture school and student dormitory; and
* A water tank and cold storage facility.
These projects are valued at about $3 million U.S. dollars, officials said.
Turkey also has started a humanitarian assistance project for the Wardak people, officials said.
The first phase of the project, which cost $300,000, will deliver 150 tons of flour, 150 tons of rice, 150 tons of beans, 30 tons of sugar, 30 tons of oil and 6 tons of tea to some 6,000 needy families in eight districts.
An official ceremony today at the Wardak Governor’s Building will launch the delivery of this humanitarian aid, officials said.
Turkey has participated in the International Security Assistance Force since its inception and was in command of ISAF II and ISAF VII.
On Aug. 7, Turkey also took command responsibility for Regional Command Central, with the help of partners France and Italy.
(From a Combined Forces Command Afghanistan news release.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2026
(Note: this was the 25th PRT in Afghanistan, (ed.)
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