He said he felt immense pain and sadness when he saw the news, especially since he's traveled to that region multiple times to help with refugee camps. Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an Imam at the Valley Ranch Islamic Center in Irving. We have multiple families here from Syria from Turkey and I immediately knew just by the magnitude of the earthquake and seeing the initial images of the buildings collapsing that the death toll is going to be significant and the restoration effort is going to be even more significant," said Imam Dr. While there is a focus on Turkey, there is a need for the neighboring country of Syria, which was also devastatingly impacted. "It's my country too, I need to help my people " I feel really bad but I feel also really happy, at least I can help people," said Akinci who said the region his family is from is okay. On Tuesday, he and his staff spent the day making space for donations. It's owned by Yavuz Akinci, who is originally from Turkey. in Carrollton is one of the locations people can drop off donations. That's why there's a big push for winter items, along with tents to help provide some sort of shelter. Not only are people dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake, but the region is experiencing a bitterly cold winter. It's raining, it's so cold, it's minus degrees almost and so they were in the car, you know using the heat from the car, but even the gas is scarce." "They didn't have anything to drink even, no food, no nothing. "My uncle who couldn't go back to his apartment, they were staying in the car for the whole day," said Van Winkle about a different family member. "She had very internal severe damage, they took her to the hospital but because of internal bleeding she couldn't make it, and later on they were able to dig out her father and brother, and they were also dead, so that was a whole family gone basically," said a choked up Van Winkle about her family on her father's side.įor those who have survived, many lost everything in an instant and are now homeless. "I got word that they had reached out to her and actually they had rescued her, and I was very happy," said Van Winkle whose hope would later lead to despair. Sümerler mah belediye evleri a/3 blok /fK1rWJSsUv- SS February 6, 2023 Yakınlarımızın hayatta olduklarına eminiz, sadece sesimizi duyurmamız ve afadın bize ulaşması gerekiyor hava çok soğuk. If that happened to us, how would we feel about that? Wouldn't we want any help we can get? That's why we have to help them," said Nusin Van Winkle a North Texan originally from Turkey. "I think that if you put yourself in one of those people's situation, you can understand why we have to help them.
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