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A Letter From Derya Simsek |
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Dear Members of T.A.W.S.F., I was born in 1980 in Istanbul. Today I am second year student in Yildiz Technical University in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. On the night of August 17, 1999, like many other people, I woke in the middle of my deep sleep and sensed the most inexplicable fear that I had ever felt. Since then, I still feel that horrible earthquake in every cell of my body. Our "home" was one of the smallest apartments in a eigth story building in Kucukcekmece. Before th earthquake we had a happy and peaceful life. However, with the first tremors of that disaster, it was terribly loud and very scary, we got up from our beds and for 25 seconds, looked for a place to hide. I thought death was coming for all of us. My parents and I huddled under the dinner table, but the noise and experience was very disturbing. The first and second floors of the building sustained very heavy damage as did the machines of the shoe factory. The walls seemed to fall down. When we heard these sounds of the walls collapsing, our hops diminished and my mother started to pray. Thank God, we survived. This was shear luck. We are now staying in Pendik, at the home of one of our relatives. We had through Hell, but life had to go on. My future and further education were waiting for me. I was heartbroken but went back to school. As an earthquake victim and with the support of my teachers, I sent the scholarship application to TAWSF. I will be very happy and glad if I recive the scholarsip from your organization. My heartfelt thanks and appreciation goes to all of the many organizations that helped and supported us during these troubled and difficult times of our lives. May God never let happen to others what happened to us. Ahu Derya Simsek
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