A Cardiff barber who has lost family members in the Turkey-Syria earthquake has helped to send over 50 bags of urgently-needed clothes to victims of the disaster. Mehmet Zengin, owner of Mehmet's Barber in Birchgrove, put a call-out on social media for donations of clothes and blankets to send out to Turkey via a convoy of lorries.
Turkey and neighbouring Syria were struck by a huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday, February 6. At the time of writing, the death toll is nearing 44,000 and Turkish authorities say that over 38,000 people have been killed in the country.
Mehmet has lost multiple members of his family to the devastating natural disaster, all of whom died in Adiyaman, a city of 300,000 people that has suffered extensive damage. Mehmet's cousin and his cousin's wife and child were all killed in the disaster.
