The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) launched an aid campaign for the citizens who were harmed by the earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş that affected 10 provinces.
The statement made on the TFF’s website with the headline “Call to Our Football Community” said, “Our nation is experiencing a bitter day… Earthquakes in our provinces, which are the land of martyrs who shed their blood with honor in our War of Independence, wrote heroic epics and colored our flag, shocked our entire nation.” it was said.
Stating that as a result of the earthquakes felt in many provinces, especially in Hatay, Gaziantep, Adana, Osmaniye, Diyarbakır, Malatya and Şanlıurfa, the epicenter of which is Kahramanmaraş, great loss of life has been experienced and there are still many citizens waiting to be rescued under the rubble, “Not only our citizens in these provinces, but the whole country. He is crying. The hearts of all of us are beating together with our brothers who were pulled out of the rubble and waiting to be pulled out. All of Turkey’s thoughts are with the brothers who suffer today, accompanied by the painful memories of the 1999 earthquake.” expressions were used.
“As the Turkish Football Federation, we believe that we will heal the wounds of this earthquake, which is one of the biggest disasters our country has faced recently, in unity, solidarity, cooperation and solidarity.” The statement continued with the following statements:
“As the federation, we decided to start an aid campaign by saying ‘the day is the day of being one heart’ in this difficult period when our glorious flag, which was declared national mourning, was hoisted. We invite all our members, club teams, club presidents, all our football players, coaches, referees, observers, representatives, associations, all our fans, who generously share their love of football in good times and bad, to stand by our people on this sad day of our people and to support the campaign we started in cash. “We are a big and strong family. We are a community that gets together even more in hardships and disasters. Let’s join hands and support together today. May God have mercy on our citizens who lost their lives in these earthquakes, once again, and urgently send our wounded.” fortune, we pray patience to our families. We wish strength to our state, search and rescue teams, health personnel, humanitarian aid workers. TC ZIRAAT BANKASI A.S. PUBLIC CORPORATE BRANCH – AFAD ACCOUNT TR 73 0001 0017 4555 5555 5552 04 We invite you to send your support to the account number. We want you to support our campaign by typing “EARTHQUAKE” or sending an SMS to 1866.”