SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Sulaimani chamber of commerce and industry on Tuesday urged businessmen to collect donations to Kurdish areas that were impacted by the deadly Monday Turkey earthquake.
“We urge all Sulaimani businessmen to immediately collect donations and aid to send it to the victims in the northern part of Kurdistan [Bakur] and western Kurdistan [Rojava],” said the head of the chamber Sirwan Mohammed.
Mohammed called the donors to hand the collected aid and donations to the chamber, demanding food, children’s needs, infant milk, and women-related stuff.
Moreover, The general directorate of Sulaimani health had earlier said that it will send medical aid to Kurdish areas that were affected by the massive earthquake.
“We express our deepest sorrow for the victims of the quake, particularly those which are affected in northern Kurdistan [Bakur] and western Kurdistan [Rojava],” read a statement from the health directorate.
“We have the full commitment to send medical and logistic aid to the catastrophic areas,” it said, adding it’s ready to transfer any injured to Sulaimani health centers to receive treatment.
A huge earthquake that struck the central Turkish province of Gaziantep killed thousands of people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by the earthquake that left a trail of destruction across a wide area of southern Turkey and neighboring Syria.
Thousands of buildings were toppled, hospitals and schools wrecked and tens of thousands of people were injured or left homeless in several Turkish and Syrian cities by the magnitude 7.8 quake – the deadliest in Turkey since 1999.
