![]() Levent can trigger his volunteers with a single Tweet or a social media post. In addition to medical, food and financial support, hundreds of students receive monthly scholarships from Ahbap. “The helicopter was very successful and saved hundreds of thousands of trees and many lives,” Levent said.Īhbap has more than 47,000 volunteers operating in almost all Turkish towns and cities. Thousands of Ahbap volunteers from disaster cities and other cities arrived in hours and worked shoulder-to-shoulder with firefighters and distributed food and medical aid to people affected by the wildfires. The extraordinary work of Ahbap was exemplified when wild forest fires devastated south and western Turkey this summer, and government mismanagement and the lack of firefighting planes and helicopters made the crisis worse.Īhbap rented a firefighting helicopter from France and gave it to the Turkish Ministry for Forestry. ![]() “In the last five years, Ahbap distributed nearly 800 million Turkish lira to those in need and we helped 5,600 families and touched hundreds of thousand people,” Levent said in a TV interview on September 23. ![]() ![]() Levent started his work as an activist in the 1990s, defending Turkish forests in Balikesir, and over the following years Levent and his Ahbaps, meaning “friend” in Turkish, transformed into an NGO in 2017 to help those in need. Whenever and wherever a natural disaster and accident happened, or a person needed expensive medical treatment, Turkish rock musician Haluk Levent and members of his Anatolia People and Peace Platform, Ahbap, were first to arrive and help. ![]()
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