Kurdish cities mobilizing for Van
Kurdish cities mobilizing for Van
Tons of food and clothing aids collected at tens of centers in Diyarbakýr are sent to the earthquake area with trucks departing by the hour. Diyarbakir Metropolitan Mayor Osman Baydemir stated that 55 municipalities member to the GABB (Southeastern Anatolia Region Union of Municipalities) sent 43 trucks, 258 lorries, pickups, construction equipment, water tankers, transit vehicles, public transportation vehicles, rescue vehicles, a rescue team and nurses to the area to give service for earthquake victims. Baydemir added a health care team and ambulance to the list as well as a rolling kitchen to provide cooked food for nine thousand people.
While the people in Bismil district of Diyarbakýr, including primary school students, house women and bakers, mobilized to contribute to the aids for earthquake victims, lots of trucks with disaster relief materials and medical equipment were sent to the quake area.
The same mobilization of the people was seen in Baðlar district where people sent six trucks so far loaded with blankets, carpets, heaters, milk, diapers, clothes and food. It drew attention that even children were included in the campaign by buying food with their pocket money or giving the shoes they wear.
The support campaign in Þýrnak has also sent 15 tons of basic foodstuff, 41 thousand of bottles of water, thousands of carpet, bread, blanket, electric heaters and other basic materials. Aid materials were also sent with tens of trucks from Silopi, Beytüþþebap and Cizre districts and their villages where the campaigns were organized and run by BDP District Organizations.
Support campaigns were similarly conducted by many circles including the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Organization and Municipalities, woman activists of the Democratic Free Women’s Movement (DÖKH), PKK and PJAK prisoners in Siirt Prison, Human Rights Association (IHD) and DARDER Union. Tons of aid materials were sent from the provinces of Mardin, Siirt, Hakkari, Muþ, Kars and districts of Nusaybin, Kurtalan, Çukurca, Yüksekova, Þemdinli, Doðubayazýt, Diyadin, Patnos and Tatvan.
While the people in Bismil district of Diyarbakýr, including primary school students, house women and bakers, mobilized to contribute to the aids for earthquake victims, lots of trucks with disaster relief materials and medical equipment were sent to the quake area.
The same mobilization of the people was seen in Baðlar district where people sent six trucks so far loaded with blankets, carpets, heaters, milk, diapers, clothes and food. It drew attention that even children were included in the campaign by buying food with their pocket money or giving the shoes they wear.
The support campaign in Þýrnak has also sent 15 tons of basic foodstuff, 41 thousand of bottles of water, thousands of carpet, bread, blanket, electric heaters and other basic materials. Aid materials were also sent with tens of trucks from Silopi, Beytüþþebap and Cizre districts and their villages where the campaigns were organized and run by BDP District Organizations.
Support campaigns were similarly conducted by many circles including the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Organization and Municipalities, woman activists of the Democratic Free Women’s Movement (DÖKH), PKK and PJAK prisoners in Siirt Prison, Human Rights Association (IHD) and DARDER Union. Tons of aid materials were sent from the provinces of Mardin, Siirt, Hakkari, Muþ, Kars and districts of Nusaybin, Kurtalan, Çukurca, Yüksekova, Þemdinli, Doðubayazýt, Diyadin, Patnos and Tatvan.
