As of: February 8, 2024, 6:30 a.m
By: Andreas Steppan
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Stacks of boxes: After the disaster in the Turkish-Syrian border area, the Mevlana Mosque Association and the Gençlikspor football club, among others, put together a large collection of relief goods.
Abdullah Ehliz's business in Gaißach served as a warehouse.
(Archive photo) © Arndt Pröhl
It is the first anniversary of the severe earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
Emotions also arise again for many people in Bad Tölz on this date.
Bad Tölz - Hundreds of thousands of buildings collapsed, around 60,000 people were killed, according to official figures: The severe earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area celebrated its first anniversary on February 6th.
On this date, emotions arose again among many people in Bad Tölz.
At that time, an impressive amount of aid was provided for the affected areas from here.
The connections continue.
Tölzer relief efforts after earthquake in Turkey
A year ago, huge amounts of boxes piled up in Abdullah Ehliz's company in Gaißach.
Together with many volunteers, the Tölz Mevlana Mosque Association and Murat Budak from the Gençlikspor football club set up a collection of relief supplies.
“On the first day we completed a 7.5-ton truck within two hours,” remembers Budak.
He is still impressed by how many helping hands there were from Tölz and the surrounding area.
The “Tölz Helps” group made an important contribution and helped the campaign achieve greater reach on social media.
To this day, the thought of the earthquake and its consequences still haunts Murat Budak.
A relative, a father of two children who worked as a teacher in the earthquake area, died in the disaster, he reports.
The man from Tölz is still in contact with Volkan Avci from Miesbach, who has a car dealership and with whom he worked together for the relief operation.
“If there is a need somewhere, we still have contact points to help.”
Tölzer brought donations to the earthquake zone in Türkiye
For example, last fall he donated the daily income from his hairdressing salon in Miesbach, amounting to around 1,500 euros.
And to thank the solidarity between Tölz residents and Turks, at the end of the year he gave the district fire departments 100 vouchers each for a haircut in his Tölz salon Laila and for kebabs in his restaurant Mocca (we reported).
Handing over a check in the earthquake area: Tarkan Demir from Tölz traveled to Adana in spring 2023 and handed over donations amounting to 36,500 euros to Muzaffer Sahiner (Wednesday), who coordinated the relief efforts on site.
On the left in the picture is Demir's friend Cengiz Kuybulu, who comes from Adana.
(Archive photo) © Tarkan Demir
Tarkan Demir from Tölz personally made his way to the earthquake zone last spring.
He had collected donations amounting to 36,500 euros.
He handed over the proceeds of his campaign to those responsible for administration in the Turkish city of Adana.
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The contact came about through a friend of Demir's who comes from Adana and later moved to Sakarya on the Black Sea, where Demir has his roots.
Donations were used to build apartments in Turkey
Through this acquaintance, the Tölzer still keeps up to date with the donations from the Oberland.
“He says that all the fundraisers were an incredibly big help,” says Demir.
The financial support was initially used to build container settlements to accommodate people who had lost their homes.
These affected people are now gradually being relocated to newly built residential areas, while in the city itself buildings that have become uninhabitable are still being demolished.
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“After such a huge catastrophe, a year isn’t exactly a long time to come to terms with all the bad things that happened,” says Tarkan Demir.
“But it was definitely a very long year for the people in the earthquake areas.”
Tarkan Demir modestly calls his own contribution “a drop in the ocean”.
Nevertheless, it was important to him to help, “no matter which country something like this happens in, it’s about human dignity.”
Trip to the earthquake zone “formative” for Tölzer
The trip to Adana was a “formative experience” for him.
“That made me rethink how good we have it here and how satisfied we can be.
Society forgets that too often.” It was also nice for him to see: “In a catastrophe like this, people stick together again.”
He would like to return to Adana one day to see how the city has developed since the quake.
“The city is also very beautiful and has a lot to offer culturally.” A detour on one of his next trips to Turkey is firmly planned.
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