As families in Australia grieve their relatives buried under the rubble of a devastating earthquake, community members are rallying to collect donations and provide crucial aid.
"It's minus 10 degrees, people are freezing, they're outside, homeless.
Since Tuesday morning, Mr Kul said his phone didn't stop ringing — he described the response as "overwhelming".Community members joined funeral prayers for the victims. "She was lucky to be released — it was a matter of seconds. However, her aunties are still under that rubble," Ms Sezer-Demir said. "There are buildings that are cracked and that haven't actually collapsed. As soon as an aftershock comes in where it's standing upright, it just crumbles," Mr Arslan said."The government itself in Türkiye is trying to assist where they can, but with the magnitude of the earthquake, it is impossible to get to everyone at once."
More than 38,500 people living in Australia were born in Türkiye, while almost 30,000 were born in Syria, according to the latest census."It requires diligent work of picking up the rubble, lifting the hard concrete slabs, without harming the people who may be trapped underneath," he said.
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