#2023 turkey-syria earthquake

[ammg-old2]

Earthquakes serve as turning points in Turkish history, a shattering of silence in mere seconds. In 1999, an earthquake struck near Istanbul, my hometown. More than 17,000 people were killed and many more injured. I had always known that earthquakes were something to be wary of, that they are expected in a country that sits on the Anatolian Plate bordering two major fault lines. But I had never lived through a quake before, or seen its aftermath. For weeks people slept outdoors—in parks, on the waterfront, in streets and stadiums—unable to go back to homes that had been destroyed, or afraid to return to homes still standing.

That disaster and the slow rescue operations that followed brought the AKP, or the Justice and Development Party, to power. It promised modern, transparent governance, and has led our country ever since. And yet it went on to waste decades protecting its own rule, luxuriating in its own ideological priorities, and failing to prepare for this catastrophe.

On Monday, two major earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, leaving more than 11,000 people dead, four times that number injured, and many still missing. The World Health Organization has said that the death toll could rise to more than 20,000. In Turkey, close to 6,000 residential and commercial buildings collapsed.

The first earthquake, at magnitude 7.8, hit the city of Gaziantep, bordering Syria, soon after 4 a.m. as people slept. Approximately half a million refugees from the Syrian war are living there, refugees who must once again feel a horrific sense of displacement. Nine hours later, a 7.5-magnitude quake hit Kahramanmaraş province, about 60 miles to the north. Several Turkish cities were severely rocked. Aftershocks were felt in Greece, Cyprus, and Lebanon; they are still being felt.

About 380,000 people have taken refuge in hotels, dormitories, community centers, and other facilities. The pain is not over. Many people are still trapped under the rubble, and others are working to rescue them, in the freezing cold—the rain and snow alternating. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared a three-month state of emergency in the provinces hit hardest by the catastrophe, and declared seven days of national mourning. Because in Turkey, that’s what we do: Today we mourn, and tomorrow we forget, until the next tragedy.

But the Turkish people have questions: Where did the billions of dollars they paid in “earthquake taxes” since the 1999 catastrophe go? Why were the construction codes aimed at making structures more quake-resistant not followed? Why, despite experts’ warnings and politicians’ promises, was more not done to prevent all this death?

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[claireneto]

With the situation happening in Turkey and Syrja right, here is a donation link (that gets around the pay*pal block, since Turkey has banned it). The donations will go to CARE Turkey, CARE Syria, AKUT, and Ahbap through Givinga Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity. This allows non-Turkish citizens to send aid without the roadblocks for immediate aid. The Turkish Lyra is also down so any amount no matter how small will help there immensely.

#turkey #syria #2023 turkey-syria earthquake #earthquake #natural disasters #mutual aid #hasan piker #the community has already raised over 300k so lets keep this going

[emergencymanagementnews]

Rescue teams in Europe are frustrated that Morocco did not throw open its doors to more outside assistance after last week's deadly earthquake.

#2023 turkey-syria earthquake

[moonlayl]

The Death Toll of the Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria may have reached 20,000 people, and that’s outside of all those who are injured and lost.

If you could donate PLEASE do!!!

Here’s a post full of charities you could donate to, but I’ll add my own trustworthy ones here:

Islamic Relief:  teams are on the ground right now providing emergency food assistance, shelter, medical supplies to hospitals and clinics, as well as blankets and tents for those made homeless by the quake in Turkey and Syria

Molham: The team at Molham are currently on the ground helping displaced families in Turkey and Syria who have been affected by the earthquake   

The White Helmets: The team are on the ground in Northwest Syria searching for survivors and removing the dead from the rubble.

MSF: remaining in close contact with the local authorities in northwestern Syria and with the authorities in Turkey to extend their support where it’s needed. They’re providing essential life kits to displaced people in the region

please PLEASE reblog. Syria and Turkiye need our help!!!

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[reportwire]

New quake hits Turkey, toppling more buildings: 1 killed

Officials say a magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey causing some damaged buildings to collapse and killing at least one person ByThe Associated Press February 27, 2023, 4:49 AM ANKARA, Turkey — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday — three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region — causing some already damaged buildings to collapse and killing at…

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[quotesfrommyreading]

When the AKP came to power, in the early 2000s, it was little known. Voters embraced it because they were fed up with the old system of governance and its party coalitions, lack of transparency, police violence, and financial inequality. That paved the way for AKP’s messianic promise to create what it came to call a “New Turkey.”

But instead of focusing on shoring up the country, the government has spent the past several years on nationalist campaigns—attacking Kurds in Turkey (nearly 20 percent of the country is of Kurdish origin) and in Syria, and by threatening its neighbor Greece. It has focused on ideology—exhorting women to bear “at least three children” and creating a “pious generation” by opening up many religious schools. It has oppressed dissent by sacking officials who do not align with the party’s conservative views.

In short, it has worked to crush secularism and democracy and turn everything into a symbol of its own rule. It has done this by cultivating, in a largely uneducated and easily manipulated population, nationalism, fear of the other, financial dependence, and unquestioning confidence in a heroic father figure.

This “New Turkey” used infrastructure projects to highlight its break with the past. The more the government built, the more powerful and modern it seemed. It looked toward the skyscrapers of Qatar and Saudi Arabia as models, instead of toward Europe. Favors and contracts and permits were granted to construction companies and businesses close to the party, in exchange for kickbacks and votes. In 2021, in a speech celebrating the completion of a new bridge, Erdoğan said, “Foreigners now view our roads, bridges, and airports with envy when they come to Turkey.” If that was ever true, it isn’t anymore.

Shortly after Monday’s earthquakes, Turkish citizens called out on social media to wealthy real-estate and construction-company owners to bring their earthmovers and other heavy machinery to the wreckage sites while lives could still be saved. After all, aren’t they the ones who ignored building codes to maximize their revenues? Aren’t the roads they made and the houses they built with cheap materials nothing but debris and dust today?

I have often heard, in the aftermath of corruption scandals, some Turkish people say things like Okay, yes, they steal. So what? Every government has stolen from us; at least they give to the people by building bridges, airports, and roads. Now the bridges have broken, the airports are closed, and roads have cracked open as if meteors had fallen on them, preventing emergency help from reaching desperate areas.

In the affected region, a shopping mall is reported to have collapsed, along with a historic mosque, and hospitals were destroyed, forcing patients and caregivers out in the cold. Electricity, fuel, gas, and running water are scarce. Gaziantep Castle, a landmark that stood strong from the Hittite to Roman and Byzantine periods, has been severely damaged. There are reports of mangled Orthodox and Armenian churches, as well as synagogues—sites of worship that were some of the few reminders of a multiethnic history that the government has tried to stamp out.

But it’s difficult to know what exactly has fallen, and what still stands, because in the past few years, the government has shut down many independent media outlets. This morning, Twitter—which people had been using to share information about survivors and their needs—was running slowly in the country, probably because the government had restricted it.

My mother was born in Erzincan, in eastern Turkey, more than a decade after the earthquake of 1939, which killed 30,000 people and remains the most destructive in the nation’s history. In 2017, I went to visit her remote village in the beautiful high mountains; people there still tell stories about the trauma of that earthquake, a trauma carried in every corner of my homeland. What happened this week will be remembered at least as long.

Our republic will turn 100 this year, in October. Presidential and parliamentary elections are to be held in May. Of course, the government did not cause this earthquake; fault lines deep in the earth did that. But on election day, we should stop giving our power to a party that has abused it, that cares more for its own survival than the people’s well-being, and remember the bare hands of rescue workers and residents digging people out from under our cities. Turkey was a construction site. It has become a cemetery. It deserves better.

  —  Turkey’s Trust in Government Has Turned to Dust

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[petnews2day]

Amid quake's devastation, parallel rescue bid targets pets

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Amid quake's devastation, parallel rescue bid targets pets

Six days after the earthquake that flattened parts of Turkey and Syria, two survivors emerged from the rubble By BERNAT ARMANGUÉ Associated Press February 14, 2023, 2:32 AM ET • 2 min read ANTAKYA, Turkey — Six days after the earthquake that flattened parts of Turkey and Syria, two survivors emerged from the rubble. They […]

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[codewithcode]

Twitter's plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help — including from people trapped in collapsed buildings — and connect people with rescue organizations. They could lose access as soon as Monday unless they pay Twitter a monthly fee of at least $100 —…

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[thewales-family]

The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Hayes Muslim Centre and thanked those involved in the aid effort and those who have fundraised to help communities affected by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, in Hayes, England -March 9th 2023.

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[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

Ramadan mubarak to all my mutuals and followers who are going to fast!

Wishing us a blessed and peaceful month ☪️

#praying for turkey and syria #and for afghanistan and pakistan where 13 people died in a earthquake yesterday #praying for palestine where the fear of a bloody month is very high #spirituality #religion #islam #personal #ramadan #ramadan 2023 #the lights are a first in a western capital #mayor of london: sadik khan took this initiative

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and one fellow Republican were the only House lawmakers on Monday to vote against a resolution that mourned the almost 50,000 people killed in this month’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

The resolution, which praised “the work of humanitarian aid and rescue workers on the ground” and condemned “efforts by the Assad regime of Syria to exploit the disaster to evade international pressure and accountability,” passed 412-2.

Greene (R-Ga.), and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) opposed the measure.

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who sponsored the earthquake resolution, said on the House floor that “to the brutal Assad regime and its backers — war criminal Putin, the authoritarian ayatollah in Iran — there will be a message: your diversion of humanitarian aid during an earthquake is despicable.”

“The U.S. Congress stands united. We will never normalize with you,” Wilson continued. “We will hold all those who attempt to normalize with you accountable, and we will not stop supporting the people of Syria to have a government they deserve based on democracy with rule of law, not authoritarians with rule of gun.”

Greene, the spotlight-seeking extremist, has called for America to stop funding Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion. In February, she tweeted she was “praying for Turkey and other countries suffering through deadly earthquakes.”

Massie last year voted against a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime.

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[tealingual]

2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake vocabulary in Finnish

Maanjäristys - earthquake Turkki - Turkey Syyria - Syria Kuudes helmikuuta - February 6th Kaksituhattakaksikymmentäkolme - 2023 Voimakkuus - intensity, strength Magnitudi - magnitude Seitsemän pilkku kahdeksan - 7,8 Jälkijäristys - afterquake (Suur)onnettomuus - (large scale) disaster Hätätila - state of emergency Raunio - ruin Pelastustyö(ntekijä) - rescue work(er) Väliaikainen majoitus - temporary accommodation Teltta - tent Kansainvälinen apu - international aid Vapaaehtoinen - volunteer Avustustarvikkeet - aid equipment Huopa, peitto - blanket Ruoka - food Vesi - water Lahjoitus - donation Uhri - victim Kuollut - dead Ruumis - dead body, corpse Loukkaantunut - injured Kateissa - missing Järistä - to quake, to tremble Romahtaa - to collapse Sortua - to crumble Tuhoutua - to be destroyed Vahingoittua - to be damaged, to be injured Tulvia - to flood Kuolla - to die Olla jumissa, olla loukussa - to be stuck, to be trapped Menettää - to lose Kärsiä - to suffer Haudata - to bury Etsiä - to search Pelastaa - to save, to rescue Raivata - to clear Evakuoida - to evacuate Auttaa - to help, to assist Lahjoittaa - to donate

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[prettypinkprincessxxxx]

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Hello first of all I hope everyone who is in Türkiye and Syria are doing well. Second of all o would like to inform you all about young royals cast posting t€rror fund in the name of helping Türkiye. I learned this a bit late and this happened like a week ago but all I want from you is to stop supporting young royals.

Recently in Türkiye and Syria a huge earthquake has taken place and yes I’m sorry I didn’t post any posts about it but I was very much aware and I also helped as much as I could. I felt horrible when I heard about many people that lost their lives and homes.

But let’s talk about the main of this post. The picture below is what young royals actor edvin ryding posted and for all of you this post supports kurd t€rror organisations such as pkk and all the money goes to them. And not just edvin rest of the cast (except omar rudberg) also posted the same t€rror Fund. And let me explain this matter a little more. these terror organisations want to divide Türkiye and Iran, they want to form a country called “kurdistan" which is a non existed country but is mentioned below, I was actually so confused when I first saw it cause there is no place such as k*rdistan. To add this it wasn’t edvins first time to mention it, he did it before and apparently deleted it later because of people reacting towards it but this time he didn’t deleted his story and many Turkish fans of him are heartbroken by this situation. I support them all fully and they have every right to be mad towards young royals cast. Honestly I was extremely disappointed when I heard this and than I searched it up a bit, director of young royals aka rodja sekersöz is also apparently a kurd that is a t€rrorist (not directly but supports them) so money that is made by goes to weapons that are for pkk (and other t€rror organizations) i know it some of you really like the show but I am asking is it worth it? kurd t€rror organizations are one of the biggest problems in Türkiye currently and I’m asking you all please report these accounts (such as the one below on edvin’s story) and cancel the cast for this. Also stop watching yr as well, there is many shows similar to it. Recently I read red, white and royal blue for example it is a good one to start (it’s a book btw) one person can not do a lot but together all of us we can make a change ❤️

#Turkey #Syria #turkiye #turkey earthquake #earthquake #earthquake 2023 #young royals #edvin ryding #omar rudberg #wilmon #nikita uggla #malte gardinger #frida argento #türkiye #kurdu #help turkey #young royals season three #yr simon #yr wilhelm

[frary-us]

Toby Regbo at a Choose Love fundraising event Monday, March 6, 2023. It’s so nice to see Toby’s continued devoted support of his favorite charity.💗

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“chooselove LOVE IN ACTION.

This week,@laylaypowell organised, cooked and hosted an amazing fundraising supper club at @drunch followed by a beautiful DJ set from @mralilove and @lex_wolf_

They raised a total of £10k thanks to the generosity of the wonderful guests and thanks, in part, to the generous matchfund!

Every pound will go to helping ensure we can carry on funding essential support in Türkiye and Syria following the recent earthquakes.

We are constantly bowled over by how much time and energy the incredible people in our community put into helping to raise desperately needed funds.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered in the kitchen, who donated to attend and of course to @laylaypowell and @Hom7 for your huge generosity in making this evening so magical.” (x)

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[indizombie]

Hospitals in Aleppo do not have enough room for new patients in the wake of last week's devastating earthquake, a doctor in the Syrian city said. At the Al-Razi Hospital there are too many beds to fit into the wards. They reach end-to-end through corridors and into the chilly courtyard. "We weren't able to discharge patients from the hospitals even after treating them. The city is damaged and there are no places for them to go," said Dr Nizar Suleiman, the head of orthopaedics. "Huge numbers of patients came in a short period of time. We have a huge shortage in medicines, so it's really worrying. For example, we suffer from a lack of medical equipment to treat fractures. We already suffer from this shortage because of the crisis, and the siege [sanctions] make it worse." More than 4,400 deaths and 7,600 injuries have been reported in north-western Syria since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck neighbouring southern Turkey on 6 February, according to the UN.

‘Syria earthquake: Aleppo hospitals overwhelmed by victims’, BBC

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[seniouesbabes]

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