Staff Writer
According to Andrew Wilks of Al Jazeera, evacuees from Turkiye’s earthquake zone traveled back to their home provinces from all over the nation to cast their votes.
Aziz Duru, who lives in Kirikkale in central Anatolia, traveled 280 miles (450 km) by bus early on Sunday morning to cast his ballot in his home province of Malatya.
According to him, it is his duty as a citizen to go, he told the exclusive Ilhas news agency. I’ll go today and come back after the morning vote.
Around 300 earthquake victims received free transportation from the disaster relief organization AFAD to return to their home towns and villages to cast their ballots, according to Kirikkale Deputy Governor Ahmet Sait Kurnaz.
After the February earthquakes in the southern part of the country, which claimed more than 50,000 lives, hundreds of thousands of people fled. Many Turkiye residents are still residing in other regions while the restoration is being done, either with relatives or in dormitories or sports facilities.
