Notices by Ahmet Alphan Sabancı (ahmetasabanci@mastodon.social)

@Gargron I’m open to help with verification process for Turkish media organizations, journalists, and bloggers. (Also will email you for myself.)

@aral on my bank app in Turkey, if I don’t have the IBAN saved it always makes me write the full name of the account holder and shows me the first letters to control before sending any money. I don’t know if it allows the transfer if the name is wrong but I always assumed that’s the case because my bank even personally called me one time because someone sent money to my wrong currency account to verify.

First real sign of intelligence from ChatGPT?

@Gargron thank you so much for the bookmark search! That’s a game changer for me.

Right now the official death toll of #earthquake in #Turkey alone is 912, and there are 5383 people wounded. More than 320 people died in #Syria as well. Making it the total number of people died in this earthquake is more than 1200.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Official update: death toll of #earthquake in #Turkey has risen to 1014.

Considering there are still aftershocks, places where help couldn’t reach yet, and more, I don’t think it’s going to stop here unfortunately.

Fuck, another #earthquake again in Kahramanmaraş, #Turkey, just as strong as the main one with M7.8.

Update from the #earthquake in #Turkey: 1762 people died and 12068 people wounded. 5606 buildings completely destroyed.

Turkey declared seven day national mourning.

International help started to arrive but because of the size of the effected area and the damage, many places are still waiting for help.

Latest update from the #earthquake in #Turkey: 1541 people died and 9733 people wounded. 3471 buildings completely destroyed.

All schools and universities in Turkey has been cancelled for this week.

It’s 18:40 in Turkey. Most cities hit by the earthquake having seriously harsh weather, which makes things even harder.

Latest update from the #earthquake in #Turkey: 1498 people died and 8533 people wounded.

There are many international help announced but also many places couldn’t receive any help or rescue teams. Plus, there are many minor earthquakes still happening, makes people scared of another major one like it happened around afternoon today.

Update from the #earthquake in #Turkey (15:30): 3549 people died and 22168 people wounded. 11302 buildings reported to be destroyed, AFAD so far verified 5775.

Erdoğan made the latest announcement but no acknowledgement about the many places without help. Repeated disinformation claims.

10 cities (Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Diyarbakır, Adana, Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Malatya, and Hatay) declared disaster zones and three month state of emergency finally declared for these cities.

One would assume that after all of this government focuses on fixing the organization and resource management issues, right?

Instead, every government official is blaming disinformation, claiming everything is under control. While we see people everywhere telling us otherwise.

Not only that but they started legal process on 90 social media accounts for that, and sharing a link to an app for people to report disinformation to them.

#Turkey #Earthquake

Update from the #earthquake in #Turkey (11:44): 3419 people died and 20426 people wounded. 11302 buildings reported to be destroyed, AFAD so far verified 5775.

Things are not looking good mainly because government can’t manage to control the situation. But they still claim “they’ve reached everywhere” while on live news people all around seen without any help.

Also Erdogan is nowhere to be seen since yesterday afternoon.

Update from the #earthquake in #Turkey: 2379 people died and 14483 people wounded. 6217 buildings completely destroyed.

Weather is making things much worse. Roads around the cities hit by the earthquake is blocked or became harder to pass and there are news coming from especially from Hatay and Adıyaman about neighborhoods not receiving any help.

It’s 00:35 in Turkey, and I don’t know how bad things will turn out in the morning or the coming days.

Update from the #earthquake in #Turkey (20:36): 4544 people died and 26721 people wounded.

To be honest, there's not much to update at this point, other than the fact that in each passing hour we see how things are much worse than we imagined and how government's incompetence makes things worse. This is a historically devastating disaster and not sure how long the recovery from it will take.

One thing I don’t understand is how people can be so disgusting even during a disaster like this.

Erdoğan not calling the two mayors of the cities hit by the earthquake because they’re members of opposition party or cement company shares are on the rise in the stock market because some people think this is an investment opportunity while hundreds of people are dead and thousands are injured is something I can never comprehend.

“The death toll has risen to 284 from an #earthquake which shook #Turkey’s south early on Monday, with 2,323 people injured, vice president Fuat Oktay told a news conference.”

I hate that we all know that Turkey has a major earthquake risk as a whole yet we still couldn’t manage to protect ourselves and wake up to bad news like this regularly. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/06/turkey-earthquake-2023-live-updates-quake-tremor-latest-news

In case anyone wants to send support to people hit by the #earthquake in #Turkey, one place I can recommend you is the NGO named Ahbap.

They're completely organized locally with volunteers working hard and fast. They proved their capabilities many times in the past, and working hard since this earthquake happened. They're probably the most organized group working on the ground right now.

You can find their banking details here: https://ahbap.org/bagisci-ol

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