Turkish, Syrian British Columbians in shock following deadly earthquakes
It’s only when he takes a break do the emotions bubble to the surface.
“First thing, I think about my family, because my brothers, my father and my mother, they are living in the south of Turkey,” he says, pausing to push back tears. “The first phone call or a message I received from them, it was at 3 a.m. and they told me, ‘OK, we are all fine. Nothing happening. We are all together now.”
He would later learn a friend and that friend’s son were killed when a building collapsed in a small town close to the principal port city of Latakia. “Everyone told me they have relatives and they just dead,” Izzden said. “We have someone we know they dead. I have friends and they dead.”He says it’s hard to be so far away and there is a sense of guilt to be living a relatively normal and safe life.“Your body is here, but your mind and your emotion, everything is just stuck there,” Izzden said, adding many Syrians who fled the ongoing war settled in the south of Turkey.
“ will probably open a relief fund account that we will probably start collecting donations for that as well,” said Altintas, an engineering teacher at UBC.As he speaks, one of his students approaches and says she is from Istanbul.“It was panic because the news coming from the Turkish side was just like 60 notifications and I didn’t understand what was going down at first,” she said.
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