‘Nothing left’: Why a Canadian woman is pleading for help after Turkey’s earthquake
Global News
A Toronto woman is concerned about her relatives in Turkey who survived the deadly earthquake but are struggling to stay warm and get help.
Toronto resident Mercan Kismetli was putting her kids to sleep on Sunday night when a massive earthquake struck her hometown in Turkey.
After seeing the news on TV that a 7.8-magnitude earthquake had ripped through Turkey and neighbouring Syria, she frantically started making calls to her relatives in the tiny town of Pazarcik.
Kismetli, 30, said it’s a miracle that most of her loved ones — grandparents, aunts, uncles and their kids — are even alive, but they have “nothing left.”
“They were able to get up and run out with nothing,” the Turkish-Canadian woman said.
“All their house(s) (are) right now garbage and they are outside.”
Her mom’s cousin and husband died, while their son got trapped under the house.
The southern town of Pazarcik, which has a population of roughly 35,000, is one of the worst-affected areas hit by the catastrophic quake and a series of aftershocks. It was close to the epicentre, Gaziantep.
It has been three days since the quake hit the region. Rescue teams from around the world are hard at work in both Turkey and Syria trying to pull out any survivors from under the rubble. The death toll on Thursday surpassed 19,000 and keeps climbing.
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