The kindness of strangers: A young Syrian boy from Idlib regains his sight in Turkey thanks to media, international organisations and a philanthropist
’s Switzerland representative businessman, Oliver Stahle, got a hold of him on the first day of Eid, May 24. Stahle had seen Weber’s news story, and contacted a journalist he knew.
Ozturk says he lost sight in his left eye during the 2008 Georgian Russian war. “We were shot at in our vehicle. My own situation made me all the more sensitive to Abdulrazak’s plight of course.” “Meanwhile, Turksoy Foundation General Secretary Prof Dusen Kaseinov had stepped in to help Abdulrazak who couldn’t enter Turkey because of the coronavirus and succeeded in getting him to [the Turkish southern border city Hatay’s] Reyhanli town,” Ozturk shares.
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