Turkish History

Earthquake Insurance in Turkey: History of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool By et al World Bank Publications Paperback (132 pages) List Price: $20.00* Lowest New Price: $19.97* Lowest Used Price: $25.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 16:48 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The persistent potential for large scale natural disasters has become a real concern for the Turkish government since the late 1990s, which ultimately led to the establishment of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP). Among the main rationale of the creation of the TCIP were a grave government fiscal exposure to natural disasters and a disproportionately low level of catastrophe insurance penetration for such a disaster-prone country. Since the commencement of this program in 2000, the TCIP has provided coverage to more than 2 million households, being by far the largest insurance program in the country. In four years, the TCIP has managed to become one of the most trusted brand names in the Turkish insurance industry, and one of the largest catastrophe insurance pools in the world. Its success has also brought an international recognition, inspiring more than a dozen of countries world wide. The TCIP experience has also been a watershed for the World Bank as it has led to a rethinking of the roles of ex ante risk management relative to ex post donor support. This book presents the main technical imperatives and challenges in the development and the implementation of the TCIP and shows how a public-private partnership may be the way forward in the financing of natural disasters. If offers valuable advise and guidelines to policymakers involved in the development of catastrophe insurance programs.

The Awakening of Turkey a History of the Turkish Revolution By E F Knight General Books LLC Paperback (152 pages) List Price: $24.02* Lowest New Price: $24.02* Lowest Used Price: $48.16* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 16:48 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Publisher: J B Lippincott Company Publication date: 1909 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics, and Cultural Identity Middlesex University Press Paperback (120 pages) Lowest Used Price: $22.34* *(As of 16:48 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here

Necdet Kent: World War II, Nazism, Consul General, Muhtar Kent, List of Turkish Diplomats, History of the Jews in Turkey Betascript Publishing Paperback (84 pages) List Price: $48.00* Lowest New Price: $48.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 16:48 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ?smail Necdet Kent (1911 ? September 20, 2002) was a Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews during World War II. While consul general in Marseilles, France between 1941 and 1944, he gave Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers, to save them from deportation to the Nazi gas chambers. Necdet Kent was born in Turkey and got his secondary education from Galatasaray Lycee, as did some of his colleagues in the foreign ministry. He travelled to the United State for his university studies, earning a degree in public law from New York University.