Hello and welcome to Empire with me and Eta Arnan.

And me, William Durimple.

Now if you are listening in the future, I should just tell you, we are recording this

days after a series of earthquakes hit Southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria.

And as we speak, rescue teams are still desperately trying to locate survivors in pockets beneath

the rubble.

Our minds are turning to those who are now homeless, the conditions are freezing, you're

seeing this.

If you're listening to this at the time the podcast comes out, you'll know it's cold

in Turkey and Syria and they could do with all the help they could get.

So if you're minded to give, we will be putting two websites on our program description.

One for disasters emergency committee and the other for international rescue.

Please give generously.

Yeah, and every little bit helps, as they say, £30 could provide blankets for six people

to keep warm, 50 could provide emergency food for two families for 10 days, £100 could

provide emergency shelter for four families.

And as William says, we're going to put those links on our program page, they just do

what you can.

I've had so much hospitality from the people of Southeastern Turkey and Syria, when

you go around those regions, you're very much aware that this is a place where earthquakes

are part of its history, the whole town of Antioch and Takia in modern Turkey, which

was once the second city of the Roman Empire, there's barely a standing pillar from the

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