While the 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş caused the destruction of thousands of buildings in 10 provinces, Turkey mobilized for the earthquake zone. While the search and rescue teams continued their work in the wreckage, the aid trucks going to the region formed long queues. While Turkey is trying to heal the wounds with all its means; Help is pouring in from all over the world. Foreign teams from 75 countries, whose numbers are approaching 7 thousand as of yesterday, provide support in many areas such as search and rescue, health and fire fighting.
A message shared on Twitter by the Spanish rescue team, who was looking for life in the wreckage, drew attention.
‘PITA’ SHARE OF THE SPANISH TEAM WAS SPREAD QUICKLY
Bomberos Girecan team, photographed a pita bread, “They stopped us on the way to deliver these foods. They don’t let us pay for breakfast or dessert. All the people turned into emergency aid teams. Remember, they are the main protagonist in the story. We are only your source of hope”. Sharing quickly became a hot topic on social media.
UPLOADING WHATEVER HE HAS COME TO HELP
Azeri Server Beşirli, who took the quilts he loaded on his vehicle in Baku to be sent to Turkey and lived in a slum, said, “We know very well what it is to be homeless in the cold of winter and to lose relatives. That was all I could do,” he said. That photo frame warmed our hearts.
While search and rescue teams from Ukraine, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Poland, Greece, Japan, Spain, Pakistan, India and many more countries were working hard in the region, a cartoon published in France drew a great reaction.
SCANDAL ‘EARTHQUAKE’ CARTOON FROM FRENCH MAGAZINE
In the last cartoon it published, the magazine mocked the earthquakes that destroyed 10 provinces of Turkey, in which thousands of people lost their lives. In the cartoon published by the magazine, ruined buildings were drawn and “There is no need to send a tank” was written on it. Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın reacted to the cartoon with the words “Modern barbarians! Drown in your hatred”.
THE BEST RESPONSE TO CHARLIE HEBDO FROM GREECE
The best response to Charlie Hebdo’s scandalous earthquake cartoon came from Greece. A cartoon was published in Greece as a response to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In the cartoon published in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, a tear drops from the eye of a crescent-shaped moon in the sky above the collapsed buildings.
