AVA - Afghan women donate jewelry to help victims in Turkey

A number of women have donated their gold and silver jewelry to help earthquake victims in Turkey.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)_Monitoring, They have handed over their jewelry to the Turkish Consul General in Mazar-e-Sharif.

Sami Lotfi Turghut, the Turkish Consul General in Mazar-e-Sharif, told Anadolu Agency that after the earthquakes in Turkey, Afghan people felt this pain and tried to support the earthquake victims.

He said that despite the poor economic situation of Afghanistan, its people still rushed to help the victims of the earthquake in Turkey, and this shows that the friendship between the two countries is very deep.

More than 45,000 people have been reported killed in last month’s devastating earthquake in Turkey. Over a hundred thousand others have been injured in the quake and subsequent tremors.