MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR NESRIN BAYAZIT,
TURKEY AMBASSADOR TO GHANA
Item
1. Land for the embassy
2.Peace building and attitudinal
change in Inner-City and Zongo
Communities
3. Education
Issue Responsibility and action
The process had stalled, there is Action:
therefore the need to speed up The ministry will engaged the
the process. Minister and Chief respective offices and
director will engage their personalities on this subject.
respective colleagues and Responsibility
facilities the process for the 1. Chief Director
embassy. 2. Hon Minister
 The Honourable Minister Action:
raises the need to peace The Minister will prepare a
building and attitud8inal proposal for d8iscussion with
change, which was Embassy.
supported by Ambassador
Nesrin Bayazit. It was
therefore proposed that
empowering Mallams and
Imams will help create the
needed change agents
that will facilitate the
transformation process.
 It was also suggested that
an attitudinal change
program that will facilitate
the development of a
liberal and inclusive
perspective in the needed
society should be
encouraged.
a. Besides the general low Doctors, nurses and other
level of education the essential health areas.
Zongos need support to b. Develop a holistic program
bring the inner-city and that will facilitate post-
Zongo communities up to scholarship training
speed. There is also the employment in Ghana.
need to pay special c. Develop and implement
attention to technical relevant programs that will
areas and healthcare. For ensure recipients of Turkish
instance, there is a government scholarships get
comparatively high rate of employed when they come
death amongst Muslim home.
women than non –Muslim
due to the fact that
Muslim women are

4. Develop social centers
5. Football parks
6. Baseline and Needs
Assessment
7. Human Development
association International
(HUSAI, Spanish NGO
operating in Ghana
8. Specific areas of interest and
agreement
culturally not comfortable
being attended to by male
doctors. Scholarships in
sensitive areas such as
female nurses, doctors
and other healthcare
professions will help
reduce this situation.
b. b. inability to get jobs
after training in Turkey
c. c. work on placement of
returning staff
Develop mosques into social
activity centres
There is the need to develop The Ambassador to hold
recreational and sporting centres discussions with relevant
in the communities. organizations and persons who
can help in developing multi-
purpose astro-tuff sporting
facilities
 The census data on the Ministry and Embassy
Zongo Communities is not
very accurate making it
unreliable to be used.
There is therefore the
need to develop accurate
baseline and needs
assessments of the Zongo
communities.
 There is the need for
accurate information on
Zongo Communities:
Baseline, statistics to
influence decision making
and intervention support
is needed in the regards
HUDAI is a Turkish Ambassador to facilitate the
humanitarian organization process.
operating in Ghana.
Ambassador will the
agency to the Ministry
common areas of interest
and engagement can be
developed
The Ministry should Responsibility: Ministry
identify the specific area
 of interest the Turkey can
help develop an
agreement /document for
mutual discussion and
development. Such a
document will enable the
embassy to identify the
institutions /agencies/ and
organizations that can
collaborate with the
Ministry.
9 Develop framework The Ministry should Ministry
agreement on identified develop a holistic frame
project areas of corporation work for the proposed
areas
10.Need to prepare a Same Same
draft agreement and
submit
11.Visit to Inner-City Turkey has done tremendous Ambassador to facilitate travel
development in Turkey inner-city transformation to Turkey
a. Transformational cities programs. It will be beneficial to
concept have first-hand knowledge and
look at the project and decide
how Ghana can emulate. Engage
other stakeholder groups in
Turkey