Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Vice President William Lai will every donate a month’s wage for Turkish earthquake reduction efforts, their workplace mentioned Thursday.
Tsai and Lai, who’re extensively anticipated to face for the presidency in elections due subsequent 12 months, “hope to do their part to help Türkiye rebuild its homeland as soon as possible,” the presidential workplace mentioned in a press release.
Türkiye, like most international locations, has no diplomatic relations with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, however they two keep de facto embassies in one another’s capitals and there are direct flights between Istanbul and Taipei.
Tsai visited the de facto Turkish embassy in Taipei on Thursday to signal a e-book of condolence, writing: “My heart goes with our Turkish friends. Taiwan stands with Türkiye!”, in response to her workplace.
Last 12 months, Tsai and Lai additionally each donated one month’s wage to assist humanitarian reduction efforts for war-torn Ukraine. Tsai earns round T$400,000 ($13,300) a month.
The loss of life toll from the earthquake and aftershocks earlier this week handed 16,000 on Thursday, with some areas going through sluggish arrival of rescue groups because of tough situations.
Taiwan, which often suffers earthquakes itself, has already introduced $2 million in catastrophe reduction and has despatched two rescue groups to Türkiye to assist in search efforts for survivors.
Tsai spoke by video name to a few of Taiwan’s workforce on the bottom Wednesday.
“I would like to thank all the members for not being afraid of difficulties and going all out so that Taiwan and Türkiye can help each other,” she wrote on her Facebook web page.
Türkiye joined worldwide efforts and despatched rescuers to Taiwan in 1999 after a large earthquake killed greater than 2,000 folks.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
