Although the Utah's Turkish community only adds up to, at most, 1,000 residents, they are working hard to do what they can to help their country.
SALT LAKE CITY — Although the Utah's Turkish community only adds up to, at most, 1,000 residents, they are working hard to do what they can to help their country in its time of need following this week's devastating earthquake."We've been on our phone constantly, all the time." said the association's president, Pinar Toyemir.
"My aunt and my aunt's families are living in cars right now," said Toyemir."They are trying to live in the streets with the car running and trying to get warm." It's that kind of massive quake that Ishil Gokgoz, the association's public relations director, experienced first hand in Izmit back in 1999.
Now, both Toyemir and Gokgoz say the Utah Turkish-American Association is stepping up to do what they can to help through a fundraising effort.
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