Players from Turkish club Galatasaray will donate their salaries to victims of the earthquake which left more than 35,000 dead and millions homeless in Turkey, the club’s president announced on Wednesday (February 15th). ” Many of our players have given up their salaries to [financer] earthquake relief operations said Dursun Özbek at a press conference. Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Besiktas – the other two big Istanbul clubs – have also launched donation campaigns, sending aid trucks to the southern and southeastern provinces of the country, devastated by the February 6 earthquake. The Turkish Premier League was suspended after the earthquake, and two Süper Lig clubs, Hatayspor and Gaziantep FK, decided to withdraw. These two clubs are located in particularly affected provinces. League matches are expected to resume on March 3, the president of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has said.
Galatasaray players donate their salaries to Turkey earthquake victims
