Relief groups from the Turkish Red Crescent to Turkish miners have rushed to the quake-hit frontlines to assist survivors with food, clothing, shelter and psychological support
A teacher and an experienced youth camp chief for the Turkish Red Crescent, Baris Celik volunteered for the Türkiye’s oldest aid group to help earthquake survivors in the country’s southern province of Hatay, which faced large destruction like 10 other provinces in the region.
People were not aware of what was going on in other areas and were asking aid workers what happened in other districts and cities without knowing how large the destruction was, she says. “They were shocked because they lost their loved ones.” “While children sleep very little, they are very happy because they are here with us. But I see them crying at times during the day, then they are hugging each other,” she says. “This is an uncharacteristic environment,” she observes.
“Yayladagi had a population of 20,000 before, but now its population swelled to 135,000 people with migrated citizens from other areas,” says Aktas, a native of Yayladagi, a district of Hatay province which neighbours Syria. Yayladagi also received a big Syrian refugee flow in the past due to the country’s civil war.
“The seconds when the earthquakes happened cannot be described in words as people cried for help from their apartments. We all begged to Allah ‘please let this earthquake end’. We all wish that it would not happen,” says Aktas.
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