Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) is tasked with coordinating search, rescue and aid efforts in response to earthquakes, floods, forest fires and other emergencies.
AFAD is also tasked with coordinating fundraising efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters.
However, AFAD trained just 53,750 of the 250,000 volunteers it had aimed for in 2021. Last year, the organisation aimed to train only 200,000 volunteers, and halved the number to 100,000 in 2023.AFAD's budget for 2023 shrank by a third to 8.08 billion lira , down from 12.16 billion lira in 2022. Meanwhile, the budgets of the bodies it helps coordinate - including the police and coast guard - were boosted.
AFAD has established and trained coordination teams in the police, gendarmerie and rangers and provincial support teams to boost its capacity when needed for disaster response.
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