Gulitan Aslan is among the many of those waiting for his share which he then takes to the tent of his son and daughter-in-law, instead of keeping it for himself.
“If we had nothing, bread, onions, or anything else, we would not compromise. We lived in the car for three days and had nothing to eat,” Aslan told Rudaw.
On February 14, around 27 trucks full of aid and food donated by the people of the Kurdistan Region arrived in Gaziantep’s Islahiye. The sleepless teams of the Joint Crisis Coordination Center (JCC) voluntarily distributed aid to the victims of the earthquake.
“The Kurdish nation has a very good message, a message of peace, a message of coexistence,” Niwar Badia’, Director of the Joint Crisis Coordination Center in the Ministry of Interior of the Kurdistan Region, said.
Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) teams have brought lunch to 1,000 people in an Islahiya neighborhood.
The Kurdistan Regional Government Civil Defense teams have saved the lives of two people and recovered 184 bodies in collaboration with Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).
Erbil's emergency teams rescued a woman under the rubble of buildings and then attended to her wounds.
“We do not care what language, nationality, religion, you follow. Our work is humanitarian work, wherever necessary, we really believe that we must be present,” Rizgar Abdulrazaq, Erbil's emergency line 122’s team leader, said.
After the earthquake in Turkey on November 6, the Kurdistan Region was among the first countries to extend aid to Turkey by sending 184 people in different roles and jobs to help the affected people.
Over 46,000 people have been killed in both countries Syria and Turkey.
