AHBAP, a well known charity within the nation, mentioned it was determined to accumulate tents and could not discover any to ship to folks in want, so decided to buy from the Purple Crescent, which is thought in Turkey as Kizilay.
“Our mates had a gathering with Kızılay Çadır ve Tekstil A.Ş, which is a subsidiary of Kızılay. We instantly signed the contract for the tents that we realized had 2,050 tents in hand, and the subsequent morning we despatched 2,050 tents to the earthquake zone,” AHBAP wrote in a tweet.
“For the reason that earthquake affected 10 provinces and the destruction was at a unprecedented stage, the present shares of all tent producers in our nation couldn’t meet the grievances of our residents. The businesses we contacted at the moment didn’t have tents that we might ship to the earthquake zone that morning. They have been capable of make them inside per week on the earliest,” AHBAP added.
President of The Purple Crescent, Kerem Kınık, advised CNN’s sister community CNN Turk Monday that he was not conscious of the sale, including that it was the choice of his employees to promote the tents. He mentioned if he was conscious of the state of affairs, he would have urged giving them away.
Nonetheless, a day earlier, on Sunday, Kınık wrote in a tweet, “@Ahbap and @Purple Crescent’s cooperation is ethical, rational, and authorized. Anybody who claims in any other case both doesn’t perceive the problem or is malicious.”
Haluk Levent, a singer who based AHBAP, wrote in a tweet Monday that his charity not solely purchased tents but in addition bought “30 thousand items of meals from Kızılay Lojistik A.Ş., which each would provide 3 meals for a household of 4 and doesn’t expire for a 12 months.”
“In whole, we bought 108 million Turkish Liras value of meals from 5 totally different suppliers. 14 million of this (round $742,000) we purchased from Kızılay Lojistik A.Ş.,” Levent additionally wrote.
Kınık additionally wrote on his Twitter account on Monday: “PUBLIC DISCLOSURE. The Purple Crescent Society delivers the donations it receives to these in want, it actually does NOT promote it. The topic within the press is the actions of our firms specialised within the area of humanitarian support, which generates sustainable earnings for the Purple Crescent.”
The revelations have attracted criticism in Turkey. Ahmet Davutoglu, who was previously prime minister beneath Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Occasion, criticized the Purple Crescent on Twitter, writing: “Purple Crescent can’t promote tents whereas individuals are desperately ready for tents on the road. These tents ought to have been delivered to the folks of the area freed from cost. It is referred to as ignorance, dropping your thoughts. Our nation and our noble nation don’t deserve this.”
Meral Akşener, the chief of Turkey’s opposition IYI Occasion, added: “The Turkish Purple Crescent was established with the understanding “to guard the dignity of individuals and society with the ability of goodness, to extend their resilience and to work to alleviate their struggling”; With the ability of cash, you might have condemned folks to an understanding that leaves them alone and empties them. Disgrace on you!”
Within the aftermath of the earthquake, many individuals together with residents, journalists, and opposition occasion members accused the Turkish authorities not solely of failing to distribute tents and meals to earthquake areas but in addition criticized it for not having sufficient groups for operations to rescue the survivors.
Throughout a information convention on Monday, President Erdogan requested to be pardoned for delays in support and rescue. “As a result of climate and highway situations, we couldn’t perform the work we wished in Adıyaman for the primary few days, I ask your pardon for this. We’re conscious of every part, nobody ought to doubt that we’ll do what is important,” he mentioned.
Final week, the Turkish authorities additionally introduced that it’s going to begin some rebuilding in quake zones amid criticism from engineers and designers. Turkey’s Atmosphere, Urbanization, and Local weather Change minister Murat Kurum introduced that excavation has begun for 885 homes within the earthquake area.
Nonetheless, Turkey’s Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) warned about future issues that would come up from constructing homes in a hasty method.
Emin Koramaz, chairman of the TMMOB’s Board wrote in his column at BirGün, an impartial newspaper, that “each venture that will likely be applied with out making new geological investigations, updating the bottom surveys, and making ready the town plans in accordance with the earthquake after the earthquake means carrying the present earthquake danger to the longer term and placing folks’s lives in danger.”
Some social media customers additionally criticized the constructing efforts, arguing that steady aftershocks within the area would injury the foundations of the brand new buildings.
President Erdogan, who faces a normal election within the coming months, has promised new houses for the individuals who have been affected by the earthquake and mentioned that they will be accomplished in a 12 months.
