Turkey restaurant owners travel to provide food to earthquake survivors

• Restaurant owners from all across Turkey travel to Hatay to provide hot meals to survivors.
• Near the soccer-specific Hatay Stadium, about 550 white tents have been set up.
• They were feeding 1,000 people daily in adjacent villages.

One of the areas most severely affected by Monday’s terrible earthquake was Hatay, so restaurant owners from all across Turkey traveled there on Friday to provide kebabs, rice, and other hot meals to survivors.

Omer Faruk, who owns a restaurant in Konya, Turkey’s capital, visited a tent city where people who had lost their homes were being housed. Near the soccer-specific Hatay Stadium in the country’s south, about 550 white tents have been set up.

“We are providing food to our citizens who are suffering due to the earthquake. We are all restaurateurs. We are here to help quake victims,” said Faruk.

Residents waited in long queues, many of whom were children, to receive the food. Volunteer Sardar Kayak claimed that in addition to feeding 1,000 people daily at the stadium, they were also feeding an additional 1,000 people daily in adjacent villages.

In Turkey, more than 6,500 structures have collapsed and countless more have been damaged, leaving hundreds of thousands without a place to call home.

Banks of tents have been set up in stadiums and destroyed city centers, and summer beach resorts along the Mediterranean and Aegean have made hotel rooms available to evacuees.

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