Onur has been working for more than seven years at Türk Kızılay and currently serves as the Deputy Program Coordinator of Community-based Migration Services department, which is a division of Migration Services Directorate of Türk Kızılay. In this role, Onur is responsible for the execution of nationwide programs aiming to support migrant communities, individuals and families in various sectors such as: psychosocial support, socio-economic empowerment, protection and social cohesion. Onur is also responsible for the operational procedures of the Ukraine Appeal project intending to strengthen vulnerable Ukrainian refugees in multiple sectors.

As a secondary role, he acts as the Project Manager of the NSCEP project, conducts communication with external and internal actors, and manages the reporting process.

Onur has represented TRC on many occasions as part of his primary role.

Previous to his career in TRC, Onur worked in the Foreigners Communication Centre of Presidency of Migration Management where he was responsible to provide legal consultancy services to foreign individuals according to Law 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) and Temporary Protection Regulation.

Onur has a Master’s Degree in Middle East Studies from the Middle East Technical University with a thesis on refugees, and a B.A. Degree in International Relations from TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey.

 

Mrs. Siana Metodieva holds the position of a Senior Expert International Projects at the Health and Social Policy Department at the BRC Headquarters.

 

 

Mrs. Metodieva has a Master Degree in Law from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in Bulgaria. She started her career at the Bulgarian Red Cross in 2003. Since then she has been involved in the elaboration and coordination of various projects in the social sphere funded by EU funds, the Swiss-Bulgarian Cooperation Program, EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and others. Mrs. Metodieva has successfully graduated a Project Cycle Management training course at the Swiss Development Cooperation HQ focused on results-based management of projects in international cooperation. 

 

 

At international level Mrs. Metodieva is a member of the Human Rights Task Force of AGE Platform Europe /since 2015/, member of a Knowledge Management Network established by the Swiss Red Cross for the Red Cross National Societies from Eastern Europe and the NIS /2013-2018/ and others. At national level Mrs. Metodieva represents the BRC in different intergovernmental working groups dealing with elaboration of national level strategic documents and implementation plans in the social sphere.

Demirhan Özdemir works as Volunteering Activities Manager in the Community-based Migration Programs (CBMP), a division of Migration Services Directorate. In this role, his main responsibility is to support and follow up the implementation of volunteering activities such as Academic Support Programme. In addition, Demirhan is responsible for the operational procedures of the Syrian Support Workers (SSW) project intending to support multiple governmental organizations.

Demirhan has attended TRC on many occasions as part of his supportive role. In addition, he took an active role during the Migration Movement in Edirne in 2019.

Previous to his career in Child Programme and CBMP , between 2017 and 2021 he worked in Kızılaykart Coordinatoship, unconditional and unrestricted cash assistance programme under the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and Conditional Cash Transfers for Education (CCTE). Within the ESSN and CCTE, he worked as the Team Leader of the Registration and Application Team. The team is responsible to receive ESSN and CCTE Applications in Service Centers. Also with HQ, his main duties were, managing and developing where necessary 9 operational activities of Service Center, following up registration and application figures across Turkey, following up supporting mechanism to ESSN government stakeholders, and developing and conducting training and workshop plans.

Demirhan is graduated from TED Ankara College High School and has a B.A. Degree in International Relations from TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey.

Veysel Çalka started to work at the activity field of Turkish Red Crescent in Mardin Nusaybin Temporary Accommodation Center in 2014 as a Youth Worker under the Children Programme. He worked with thousands of children from different nationalities and cultures. After his experience there, he also worked in Mardin-Midyat and Şanlıurfa-Suruç Temporary Accommodation Centers. He conducted thousands of activities that serve great benefits to children, such as Social Cohesion, Child Protection, Psychosocial Support, Peer Relationships, Leadership, Volunteering, and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence  wimostly focuing to migrant children. In 2016, he worked in the process of establishment of Child-Friendly Spaces  in Istanbul Sultanbeyli Community Center and İstanbul Bağcılar Community Center to expand Child-Friendly Spaces. In 2017, he continued his duty as Monitoring And Evaluation Officer in the Monitoring And Evaluation Team, which was established for the first time within the Child Programme Coordinatorship.

In 2017, he managed the setup processes of Child Programme’s Information System in order to progress the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting activities systematically, and to provide internal and external reporting needs.

Veysel Çalka, who continues his duty as Programmes Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Senior Team Leader; manages many different processes such as developing of monitoring and evaluation tools, developing Information System of Children Programme in line with the needs, developing reporting methods and techniques, managing the monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes with internal and external stakeholders.

Veysel Çalka graduated from the European University of Lefke, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Turkish Language and Literature in 2011 with a bachelor's degree.

 

Mustafa Savaş Düger has been working at Child Programme a division of Migration Services Directorate for more than 5 years. After a long field experience including child protection, social cohesion and education activities as a Youth Worker, he continues to work as Monitoring and Evaluation Officer as of 01.07.2021.

Before Turkish Red Crescent career; he worked in the “Advanced Level Turkish Lessons” project which was carried out in cooperation with Presidency for Turkish Abroad and Related Communities and Yunus Emre Institute.

Mustafa Savaş Düger has a bachelor's degree in Turkish Language Teaching from Abant Izzet Baysal University.

Ms. Nihan Ünal assumed her duties as Finance Manager as of 01 January 2021.

 

Prior to this assignment, Finance Officer at the Turkish Red Crescent and supported  all financial consultancy activities from the first stage to the last stage, following the legislation, preparing the necessary documents related field and developing the contents for the applicability of financial processes, preparing the required budgets within the determined frameworks.

 

She has five years experience in the banking sector, in commercial banking, lending, financial analysis and sales channel.

 

She has a bachelor's degree in political science from Bilkent University.