A Midlothian family has launched a fundraiser in the hopes of sending help to their home country after the deadliest earthquake in over a decade hit Turkey and Syria on Monday.
Ali Efkan Kaya, who moved from Turkey in 1996, has set up the fundraiser to help people in Elbistan - a province in the south of his home country. The Kaya family have relatives and friends in the area who have had their lives ‘devastated’ by the disaster.
As of Wednesday, the Turkish disaster management agency said the country’s death toll passed 8,500. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was impossible for a country to prepare for a disaster this big, with the 7.8 magnitude earthquake levelling huge swathes of Turkey.
