{"id":55218,"date":"2019-12-17T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55218"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:18:55","slug":"turkey-keen-to-work-with-malaysia-on-youth-volunteerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55218","title":{"rendered":"Turkey keen to work with Malaysia on youth volunteerism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Yasmin Ahmad Zukiman<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saddiq-and-turkey-minister-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saddiq-and-turkey-minister-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saddiq-and-turkey-minister-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saddiq-and-turkey-minister-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saddiq-and-turkey-minister-555x370.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 &#8212; Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman doing the launching gimmick of Youth Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre today. Also present (from left) Turkey&#8217;s Sports and Youth Ministry Deputy Director General for Youth Services Serdao Eravci, Al Sharq Youth General Coordinator Talal Kanaan, Youth KL Summit Director Abdul Muhaimin Mohd Mohyedin and Youth KL Summit Co-Director Amira Aisya Abd Aziz. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 (NNN-BERNAMA) \u2014 Turkey is keen to establish more partnership programmes with Malaysia,\u00a0 particularly involving youth volunteerism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Director-General for Turkey Youth Services of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, Serdao Eravci said creating a voluntarism&nbsp;hub that involves participation from both countries could be a way to help Muslims around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing the European Union as example, he said the European Voluntary Service established for more than 10 years has impacted the lives of many thousands of young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWhy not we create this kind of services for the Muslim countries and we can also send our youths from Turkey and Malaysia also from other Muslim countries to help one another in every way possible,\u201d he told Bernama, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing Turkey&#8217;s experience, Eravci said the country had established a website that helps non- governmental organisations to search for volunteers from different groups that could give back to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, he had shared&nbsp;the stage as a panelist with Malaysia\u2019s Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman on the topic of \u2018Youth Empowerment in Facing Global Challenges\u2019 at the Youth Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Touching on youth empowerment aspects, he said there were more than 300 youth centres and over 30 youth camps in Turkey that provided among others, upskilling courses and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on Malaysia\u2019s experience, Syed Saddiq said lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 was among the moves to empower youth for the future of Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome people said it\u2019s too early but what is the problem of doing it now? We don\u2019t want young people to be in the front lines demanding for change but when the change happens, they are precluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut the young people had&nbsp;their voices heard when finally for the first time in Malaysia\u2019s history, we got bipartisan support for constitution amendment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that would be the young who would take&nbsp; the country to greater heights in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yasmin Ahmad Zukiman KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 (NNN-BERNAMA) \u2014 Turkey is keen to establish more partnership programmes with Malaysia,\u00a0 particularly involving youth volunteerism. Deputy Director-General for Turkey Youth Services of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, Serdao Eravci said creating a voluntarism&nbsp;hub that involves participation from both countries could be a way to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":55223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}