Güney

Immigrant🇹🇷 + RN @HopkinsMedicine + NP student @JHUNursing + Blogger + Editor of + Unreasonably fond of fresh Mediterranean figs🐚

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

88% turnout reported in elections in Turkey, a number that puts most western counties to shame.

Elections here have become perhaps the last valve for dissent - but do not let anyone tell you Turks have given up on democracy.

[Güney @GuneytweetGuney]

https://t.co/fB94p60lsH

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via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/xCjFUfn4rC

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

In Hatay, 42% of residential buildings, 40% of non-residential buildings, and 34% of infrastructure were damaged. In Kahramanmaraş, 29%, 29%, and 24%, respectively. In Adıyaman, 27%, 26%, and 21%.

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

Turkish professor and earthquake expert Ahmet Ercan has been detained over social media post deemed to “incite the people to hatred and enmity”

[Letter from Turkey @CNybak]

Turkish blend cigarettes like the 'Murad' brand (manufactured by S. Anargyros, an ethnic Greek ex-Ottoman tobacco merchant) were produced in the U.S. around the turn of the century and were hugely popular for years, until declining in sales c 1920

Photo ht Hakan Korkmaz

[Selim Koru @SelimKoru]

If you want to support the relief efforts in Turkey and Syria, here's a list of organizations you can donate to: https://t.co/AEqT05yPHs

[Selim Koru @SelimKoru]

A second earthquake. Friends from the area reporting awful suffering. The death tolls are only the tip of the iceberg.

Solidarity at this time won't be forgotten.
https://t.co/LI7SYVLGz3

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

For those abroad who might want to donate.

[Kristina Jovanovski @kjovanov.bsky.social @kjovano]

Turkish hospitality doesn’t stop in an emergency. I was invited for food and tea by two families yesterday after they talked to me for 30 minutes.

[Güney @GuneytweetGuney]

They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway. https://t.co/T79IDUXwU6

[Güney @GuneytweetGuney]

If you can, please donate to earthquake victims - people and animals //https://t.co/0v1VL4zS0x

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https://t.co/s4bP9PyPWi

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

https://t.co/hURbrpcHGW

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

This, near a village in Hatay, is not a canyon - it’s a crack in the earth, 30 meters deep and 300 meters long, caused by the earthquake https://t.co/K59GKuclNC

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

On how shoddy building methods, corruption and bad policies, part an economic model powered by construction and rent-seeking, compounded the deaths and the damage. “This is a perfect crime,” says an urban planner. “Everybody has their finger in the pie.” https://t.co/McVk7FvO7E

[Foreign Media Association TR @fma_tr]

As of now: 224 entries and, so lovely, a stunning 179 of them also stated "I am willing to translate and help Rescue & Relief Organizations FOR FREE"
#earthquaketurkey

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

Turkey has restricted access to Twitter.

[Bulent KILIC @Kilicbil]

Dersim dili ve kültürünü yaşatmak için yıllarca dirsek çürütmüş Mehmet Yıldırım da Gürses sok, Odabaşı mahallesinde hala enkaz altında, başında bekleyen acılı annesi “Kusura bakmayın çocuklar, bi çayımız var, ağırlayamadık sizi” ne desek boş. #hatayyardimbekliyor #hatay

[Turkic World @TurkicWorld_Az]

An aerial view of #Hatay #Türkiye🇹🇷.
#deprem #DEPREMOLDU #earthquakeinturkey #earthquake