Teddy bears and toys had been distributed earlier than the Beşiktaş recreation to assist victims of the Turkey earthquake. (Photo by Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency by way of Getty Images)
Fans of the Turkish soccer membership Beşiktaş threw toys onto the pitch throughout the staff’s match with Antalyaspor on Feb. 26 to provide to kids displaced by the devasting earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria this month. Fans tossed the toys throughout the identical second of the sport (the 4:seventeenth minute) that the primary earthquake struck on Feb. 6.
Three whole earthquakes hit the nation — two on Feb. 6 and one on Feb. 20 — and the present dearth toll attain 43,556 in Turkey alone and 47,244 whole with Syrian victims included, per the Associated Press. Christian Atsu, a 31-year-old Ghanaian soccer participant who had been taking part in for Turkish Super Lig membership Hatayspor, was amongst those that died after his physique was discovered beneath the earthquake rubble.
This is not the primary time Beşiktaş followers threw toys do not to the sector. Spectators reportedly did one thing just like help little one victims of the 2011 earthquakes within the Turkish metropolis of Van on the southeastern facet of the nation.
