On March 13, the Secretary General of the international organization TURKSOY, Kyrgyz writer Sultan Raev, shared on his Facebook page photos of yurts sent to Turkey in the form of assistance after the February 6 earthquake.
Yurts are now furnished with desks, and children sit behind them and learn their lessons.
“Victims live in every yurt. They also teach children. Our yurts have a first-aid post, a place for lunch, they provide psychological assistance. The Turkish brothers all told us that our yurts are the most comfortable!” Raev wrote.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan sent 127 yurts, two containers and seven standard wards to Turkey.
In total, Kyrgyzstan sent 182 people to help Turkey: 6 were doctors, 5 were collectors of yurts, and the rest were rescuers. They worked in Turkey for almost two weeks and pulled out of the rubble 8 people alive, as well as the bodies of 198 dead.
Two powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria occurred early in the morning on February 6. The epicenter was located 26 km from the city of Gaziantep in the southeast of the country, near the border with Syria.
The number of victims of the natural disaster in both countries exceeded 50 thousand people, hundreds of thousands more people were affected. Thousands of houses have been destroyed.