Old Iraqi woman donates her disability pension to earthquake victims in Türkiye

Old Iraqi woman donates her disability pension to earthquake victims in Türkiye

Published February 13,2023


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An previous lady residing in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah province donated her incapacity pension to these affected by the final week’s earthquakes in Türkiye.

Khorshid Hussein Mohammed, 75, who lives within the city of Barda Qaraman, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from town middle, didn’t neglect the folks affected by the earthquake catastrophe in southern Türkiye, regardless of the sickness and poverty she has been going by herself.

Khorshid instructed Anadolu that she was born in 1948 within the village of Bargurdi within the district of Mawat and needed to go away her village in 1989 as a consequence of oppression by the Baath regime.

Recalling the time she lived in a camp, Khorshid mentioned when she noticed the catastrophe in Türkiye on tv channels, she remembered her personal exhausting days when she left the village and remained homeless.

Khorshid mentioned that when she heard that an support marketing campaign for the earthquake victims had began in Sulaymaniyah, she instantly determined to go to town middle.

“I took with me 50,000 Iraqi dinars (nearly 645 Turkish liras) of my disability pension and some clothes,” she mentioned.

“Despite my illness, I went to Sulaymaniyah by taxi. It was raining, and I couldn’t sleep that night,” Khorshid famous.

“My heart was beating with excitement, and I was crying on my way to the campaign area,” she added.

At least 31,643 folks had been killed by two robust earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, the nation’s catastrophe company mentioned on Monday.

Magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes, centered within the Kahramanmaras province, affected greater than 13 million folks throughout 10 provinces, together with Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa.

Several nations within the area, together with Syria and Lebanon, additionally felt the robust tremors that struck Türkiye within the house of lower than 10 hours.

Source: www.anews.com.tr

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