Emotional moments as Beşiktaş fans throw toys into field for quake victim kids
Beşiktaş fans filled the Vodafone Park stands and threw the toys they had brought to the field for them to be sent to the earthquake victim kids.
- Turkey
- Published Date: 08:58 | 26 February 2023
- Modified Date: 09:11 | 26 February 2023
Beşiktaş hosted Antalyaspor in the 14th-week postponement match of Spor Toto Super League.
Beşiktaş fans threw the toys they brought with them onto the field while the chronometers were showing 4.17 at Vodafone Park, symbolizing the hour that the earthquake struck the southern region of the country on February 6.
On the scoreboard at the stadium, the license plate codes of the 11 Turkish provinces jolted by the quakes flashed.
While the green field filled with toys created emotional moments in the stadium, Beşiktaş and Antalyaspor fans cheered together.
Football players of both clubs including those in the substitutes benches volunteered to remove the toys from the pitch.
After the toys thrown on the field were collected by the officials, the game continued from where it left off.
At least 44,374 people have died in two strong earthquakes that shook southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, an official from the nation's disaster agency said on Sunday.
The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes were centered in Kahramanmaras and struck 10 other provinces-Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating quakes.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of less than 10 hours.