Just two weeks after the deadliest earthquake in the country’s modern history, a powerful shock hit southern Turkey, where many people are still sleeping outdoors for fear of building collapses.
Pol Allingham
Ibrahim Guzel with his three children, in hospital
- Credit: Leila Guzel
An Islington father-of-three is trying to raise £27,000 to continue receiving life-saving cancer treatment in Turkey.
Ibrahim Guzel, 45, was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called chordoma on his right lung in 2017 after visiting his GP complaining of back pains, when his wife was just four months pregnant.
The NHS was unable to provide treatment, and he was forced to seek monthly treatment in Turkey.
For the past two months he has not been able to travel there, as his family ran out of money.
They set up a crowdfunder on GoFundMe, but the nearly £8,000 raised so far has already being spent on treatment.