Turkey crosses a complex present due to the earthquake that struck the Eurasian country and caused the death of more than 35.000 personas, together with others 3,700 fatalities in Syria. In this context, the players of the Galatasaray they will donate their salary to all those affected by the natural disaster, as announced by the president of the club.
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As search efforts turn to the grim task of recovering bodies, countless afflicted will need medication for high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma left behind in the rubble. Another imminent risk is waterborne diseases such as cholera.
“Many of our players gave up their salaries to finance operations to help victims of the earthquake“, revealed Dursun Uzbek at a press conference held at the institution.
He Galatasaray and the other two big clubs istanbulhe Fenerbahce and the Besiktas, they also launched donation campaigns and they managed to carry aid trucks to the southern and southeastern provinces of the country devastated by the earthquake on February 6.
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Emergency services continue to search for survivors, a task that becomes more difficult with each passing hour, since the standard time a human being can go without food or water intake in disasters like this is 72 hours.
It should be noted that the Turkish first division championship was suspended after the earthquake, and two clubs from the Super Leaguehe Hatayspor and the Gaziantep FK, they decided to withdraw since they are in the most affected provinces. In this sense, the Ghanaian striker Christian Atsua Hatayspor player, is still missing, nine days after the quake.
For his part, the UN launched a call for donations to face the “immense needs” of millions of people without housing or food. The Secretary General of the international entity, Anthony Guterresurged the member states of the organization to contribute “without delay” $397 million to secure “nearly five million Syrians desperately need humanitarian aid”starting by “shelter, medical care and food”.
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At least 22,327 people have died in the country from the devastating earthquake
The official specified that he will soon make a similar appeal to help Turkey. “The needs are immense” and “we know that aid to save lives is not coming at the speed and scale needed”, he insisted. “One week after the devastating earthquakes, Millions of people in the region are struggling to survive, homeless and in freezing temperatures.”, added the manager.
Meanwhile, the rescue teams managed to save four people alive on Tuesday among the rubble in the last hours. A Syrian couple from Antiochthe Antioch of Antiquity and one of the Turkish cities hardest hit by the earthquake, exclaimed “Alahu Akbar” (Allah is the greatest) after the rescue a few 210 hours after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on February 6.
Shortly before, two young brothers were able to go outdoors after passing 198 hours trapped under the rubble. Of 17 and 21 years old, respectively, the young people said they had survived consuming protein powder. “He was calm, he knew that he would be saved. I prayed. You could breathe under the ruins”, commented one of the survivors in statements provided to television NTV.
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