Moldova honors local head of Turkish state aid agency

By Zuhal Demirci</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – Moldova on Saturday honored the local head of Turkey’s state-run aid agency for her services in the country.</p> <p>Selda Ozdenoglu, the coordinator in the capital Chisinau of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency's (TIKA), was granted the order of honor &quot;for her role and goodwill in the projects in the Gagauz Autonomous Region and Moldova,&quot; Moldovan President Igor Dodon said at the award ceremony.</p> <p>Irina Vlah, governor of the Gagauz Autonomous Region, and Iulia Sircu, a former Moldovan judge, were also awarded the order of honor.</p> <p>Turkey’s state-run aid agency TIKA has been working in the Eastern European country to help the public in the areas of agriculture, health, education, water supply, infrastructure, and administration. </p> <p>Over the last 25 years, it has carried out over 400 projects and activities in Moldova.</p> <p>Its extensive projects in the education sector include building and equipping a kindergarten named after Nasreddin Hodja, a Turkish folk hero. </p> <p>TIKA also built a new diagnostic and treatment center at a regional hospital campus in Komrat, the capital of Gagauzia. The center is named after Aziz Sancar, a Turkish scientist who in 2015 won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. </p> <p> </p> <p>*Writing by Sibel Morrow</p> <p>

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