There are growing calls within Australia's Turkish community to give up the keys to unoccupied residences and holiday homes in Türkiye, to provide sanctuary to those caught up in the country's devastating earthquake.
More than 10 days after large sections of southern Türkiye and northern Syria were struck by a devastating earthquake – and subsequent tremors – the Bal family have managed to secure a safe place to live with warm beds and running water.
The agency estimates that more than 12,000 buildings were destroyed or heavily damaged across the vast area and an estimated 195,962 people have been evacuated.SOPA Images/Sipa USA “In the first two days [after the quake], we were hearing their voices under the rubble. But no help arrived. We couldn’t get them out.
“I was on the bus to go to another city at that moment. My wife was in Antakya. The earthquake caught me on the bus,” he said.
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