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A dynamic center of leadership and innovation, reflecting Alper Küçük's role as the Director General for International Affairs & Migration Services at the Turkish Red Crescent.

Alper Küçük (born in in Zonguldak in 1984) is a Turkish Humanitarian Diplomat. He is the Director General for International Affairs & Migration Services at the Turkish Red Crescent and the President of Sphere Standards[1][2]

Education

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He completed a master's degree in Social Service at Ankara University, where he specialized in the study of social systems and community support frameworks. Additionally, he pursued a second master's degree in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid at the Kalu Institute[3] in Spain, focusing on global humanitarian practices, international development, and strategies for effective crisis response.[2]

Career

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Advancing humanitarian efforts and supporting those in need around the world.

Küçük has worked more than fifteen years in the humanitarian field, predominantly with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the United Nations.

From 2008 to 2014, he has undertaken a broad-range of field-based positions with the Turkish Red Crescent globally, which includes managing humanitarian assistance programmes for vulnerable populations in sudden-onset emergencies, protracted and complex environment and as well as transition situations from emergency to recovery and development. His fieldwork has been undertaken in emergencies in more than 30 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Balkans and Americas.[4]

 
Representing Turkish Red Crescent at global discussions on international cooperation and humanitarian aid.

His field and headquarters have included the undertaking of life-saving and life-sustaining programmes and projects in multiple humanitarian sectors, emergency response coordination, humanitarian access, logistics and as well as financing and this have formed the basis for a solid understanding of humanitarian issues from both policy and operational perspectives.[5][6]

Between 2014 and late 2017, he worked for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Türkiye, as a Field Coordinator and Civil-Military Coordination Officer for cross-border humanitarian response within the scope of Syria Crisis and later as the Head of OCHA Liaison Office in Ankara.[7]

Küçük is currently serving in the capacity of the Director General for International Affairs and Migration Services at the Turkish Red Crescent, in charge of the organisation's international relations, humanitarian programmes and refugee and migration services globally.[8]

He is also serving as the President of the Governing Board at the Sphere Standards,[9] an organization and community working to set standards for humanitarian action and promotes quality and accountability.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Sphere | For life with dignity". Sphere.
  2. ^ a b "Uluslararası İşler ve Göç Hizmetleri Genel Müdürlüğü". organizasyon.kizilay.org.tr. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
  3. ^ "Kalu Institute".
  4. ^ "Turkish Emergency Humanitarian Assistance / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs".
  5. ^ Kızılay, Türk. "International Services". Türk Kızılay Kurumsal Sitesi. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  6. ^ Kızılay, Türk. "Immigration And Refugee Services". Türk Kızılay Kurumsal Sitesi. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  7. ^ "Türkiye | OCHA". www.unocha.org. 2024-06-05. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  8. ^ "International Solidarity in the Disaster of the Century – Türkiye Humanitarian Action Overview". Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  9. ^ "Governance and legal entity | Sphere Standards". Sphere. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  10. ^ "About Sphere". Sphere. Retrieved 2024-11-27.