Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan (left) and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavusoglu on February 15 in Ankara. ADEM ALTAN/AFP
REPORT – After the devastating earthquakes in Anatolia, Armenian volunteers ignore their grievances and lend assistance to the Turkish population.
Adiyaman (South Turkey)
At the bend of an alley on the campus of Adiyaman University, a flag attracts attention. The red, blue, orange banner of Armenia is hung on the wall of a tent. A very unusual sight in Turkey. “The Turks are surprised to see our flag, they come to take a picture of it”says Aram, one of the volunteers of the Armenian search and rescue team who arrived in Adiyaman on Wednesday, February 8, forty-eight hours after the earthquake that devastated southeastern Anatolia.
«It was terrible to see so much damagesays Aram, jI was just a kid in 1988, but when I saw all those collapsed buildings, it reminded me of the images of the Spitak earthquake.30,000 people died in this disaster. Turkey had then lent assistance to its neighbor.
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