{"id":28277,"date":"2010-12-06T02:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28277"},"modified":"2014-01-06T00:23:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:23:05","slug":"turkey-sends-aid-to-flood-hit-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/06\/turkey-sends-aid-to-flood-hit-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey sends aid to flood-hit Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Abdullah Gul held a telephone conversation with his Albanian counterpart Bamir Topi.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 05 December 2010 10:57<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has taken action to give a helping hand to the Balkans following the recent flood disaster in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Abdullah Gul held a telephone conversation with his Albanian counterpart Bamir Topi.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28280\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28280\" title=\"(Army forces evacuate a person from the flooded area of Shkoder, some 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Tirana.) \" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/albania.jpg\" alt=\"(Army forces evacuate a person from the flooded area of Shkoder, some 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Tirana.) \" width=\"512\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/albania.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/albania-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Army forces evacuate a person from the flooded area of Shkoder, some 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Tirana.) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Topi said that they needed help to evacuate people from the flood-hit areas. He added that they also required Turkey&#8217;s assistance in the areas of logistics and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>President Gul said that Turkey was ready to do its utmost to help Albanian people.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Armed Forces sent three evacuation helicopters and Turkish relief agency, the Red Crescent, sent a truckload of blankets and tents to Albania.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Crescent will also send tents, blankets, foodstuff and medicine to Montenegro on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people are being evacuated from northwestern Albania as their homes are threatened by widespread flooding. The government declared a state of emergency earlier this week in northwestern districts following days of torrential rain.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Abdullah Gul held a telephone conversation with his Albanian counterpart Bamir Topi. Sunday, 05 December 2010 10:57 Turkey has taken action to give a helping hand to the Balkans following the recent flood disaster in the region. Turkish President Abdullah Gul held a telephone conversation with his Albanian counterpart Bamir Topi. President Topi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[772],"tags":[4743],"class_list":["post-28277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albania-balkans-english","tag-bamir-topi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}