A personal appeal from a listener

The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson

History

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

A personal appeal from a listener who has family in Antakya.

This is an appeal for you to donate to one of the various charities who are rushing to the scene at this moment to help the survivors. You have a number of options. You may have campaigns being run in your country by reputable organisations. So here in the UK the Disaster Emergency Committee have launched an appeal that has raised millions. This is an organisation which brings a group of charities together. In this case Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and Islamic Relief amongst many others.

dec.org.uk/appeals/

To help specific groups directly:

The White Helmets are volunteers who have been operating in Syria for many years. They help evacuate people from dangerous areas and offer medical help.

https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/

AKUT Search and Rescue Association. They are a non-governmental organisation offering emergency and disaster relief to people caught up in natural disasters in Turkey.

https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation

AHBAP an independent civilian organisation who offer disaster relief to communities in need across Turkey. This is the organisation that the kind listener who prompted me to make this appeal recommends.

https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey

International Red Cross

https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/syria-emergency

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, Robin here to make another appeal for donations to help the people in Turkey and Syria.
0:07.7	Since my last update the death toll has risen into, you know, 33,000
0:13.7	today, but the UN is saying that number will double and probably go beyond that.
0:19.7	Yeah, a kind listener pointed out that I said to the first earthquake happened at 1am. That was the time in the UK.
0:25.6	It was actually 4am in Turkey.
0:27.6	So, you know, so many people were just in bed and therefore unable to escape collapsing buildings.
0:36.0	It really, really is a horrific story and anything you can give would be gratefully received.
0:42.6	I thought maybe you could hear from someone whose family
0:48.3	directly affected by this. And so, kind listener, J.A. has recorded a message for you.
0:56.5	He is not in Turkey, but he has family in Antakia, Antioch, a city that is
1:07.2	central to the Byzantine story and has been absolutely devastated to just whole streets leveled.
1:15.0	But I will let listener J.A. tell you more.
1:20.7	My family lives in Antakia, which I'm sure some of you may better know is Antioch.
1:24.5	The earthquake that had Turkey in Syria a week ago completely devastated the city.
1:31.5	It's really difficult to imagine the scale of the destruction without actually seeing it.
1:36.5	Even I've received lots of photos and videos during those I know.
1:40.6	I would document the devastation, but I'm still personally struggling to comprehend what's going on.
1:46.8	All that's now left of thousands of large apartment blocks is rubble.
1:50.6	The old city with the vast stretches, synagogues is also gone.
1:57.5	And buildings along most of the main large shopping streets also
2:01.6	collect. Still looks completely apocalyptic.
2:06.0	As I'm sure you know by now the damage extends far beyond Antakia.
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