Author(s): Yucel NAMAL, Kerem KESBIC
By taking some important decisions about the situation of the sick and wounded soldiers in war, helping the civilians and health institutions to be found in agreement with the Geneva Convention signed on August 22, 1864, the basic principles of the Red Crescent was declared. With the help of intellectual Ottomans, some attempts were made to set up an institution which had similar aims of the Red Cross. In the result of these attempts, the Red Crescent was officially founded. On April 14, 1877 Ottoman Red Crescent Association was established as an aid organization in accordance with the principles of the Geneva Convention signed with the participation of 16 states on August 22, 1864. Though Ottoman Red Crescent dispersed after the war between the Turk and the Greek, on April 20, 1911 it was re- established after the announcement of the Constitutionalism II, and increased the number of its departments. Kad?köy Red Crescent association, founded in 1912 by Mustafa Nail, the Ex-minister of Treasury and Kad?köy Red Crescent Ladies Association were engaged in activities such as setting up health institutions, helping immigrants and captives financing national struggle with the help of people living in Kad?köy and its surroundings during Balkan Wars, World War I.
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