€4 million fund was normally scheduled to be released in 2007 but, the EU has decided to allow Turkey to use the fund in 2006 due to the recent bird flu outbreak.
European Union (EU) Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou told a pres conference on Friday that the studies on the €4 million fund were underway.
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See also:
- Turkey tests another dead child for bird flu (Reuters)
- Turkey investigates suspicious death in southeastern city (Gulf Times)
- Suspicious death probed, Europe in state of alert (Turkish Daily News)
- Two more people tested positive for deadly bird flu strain (The New Anatolian)
- Turkey holds emergency meeting to discuss troubled poultry industry amid bird flu spread (Khaleej Times)
- EU grants aid to Turkey for bird flu (Hürriyet)
- World Bank active in bird flu prevention (Hürriyet)
- Turkey's Bird-Flu Outbreaks Began 3 Weeks Before Initial Report (Bloomberg.com)
- Turkey government attacked over bird flu provisions (Taipei Times)
- Turkey epicentre of war on avian flu (Toronto Star)
- Bird flu virus has mutated in Turkey (Kazinform)
- Kurdish region stops imports of poultry from Turkey (KurdishMedia)
- Bird flu stops Romanian teams going to Turkey (Reuters)
- Turkey seeks to get to grips with bird flu (FT.com)
- US to Send Bird Flu Experts to Turkey (Focus)
- Confining bird flu key for Turkey, says IMF's Krueger (Turkish Daily News)
- Bird flu: 'no need to panic' (telegraph.co.uk)
- Some hard truths about bird flu (Taipei Times)
- UNICEF: Education vital to halt bird flu (Turkish Daily News)
- Latest Developments in Bird Flu Alert (Zaman)
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