Humanitarian logistics enables delivering and warehousing of critical supplies to facilitate disaster relief activities. The main difference of humanitarian logistics from regular logistics operations is that procurement, delivery, storage and need of disaster areas embody uncertainty due to the size and the characteristic features of the crisis. The Sumatra Earthquake in 2004 and The Haiti Earthquake in 2010 have been milestones in humanitarian logistics literature and practice, to look further on success and failure conditions of humanitarian logistics operations. Even though humanitarian logistics performs in response and recovery phases of risk management cycle, its efficiency depends on strategies developed in preparedness phase. Therefore, humanitarian logistics background shares common keywords to define resilience such as redundancy, networks, flexibility, rapid response etc.
The aim of this study is to explore factors associated with the efficiency of humanitarian logistics activities by discourse analysis, using interviews and declarations of different stakeholders in the aftermath of disastrous events. The research has been conducted on selected newspapers and broadcasts in Turkish and English. The results show similarities in the speech of victims and relief organizations by the means of failure in communication and late response. On the other hand, the discourse of decision makers and authorities depends on economic and political situation of the country.