OREANDA-NEWS. August 16, 2011. Management and personnel of Turkish Petkim Company decided to organize charity action for Africa where 40 million people suffer from famine. The Company cancelled iftar dinners that it has been organizing each year during Ramadan, and financials means considered for iftar dinners was transferred to an account of the Red Crescent. Director of SOCAR-TURCAS, a board member of the Petkim Petrochemical Complex Mr. Kanan Yavuz stated that high level of poverty in Somali, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi gave a stimulus to realization of such an issue. He also called other companies to joins such actions. The voluntary action will last two weeks.