Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai (middle) announced to donate one month's salary to aid Turkey.

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[Reporter Xu Lijuan/Kaohsiung Report] A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the border between southern Turkey and northern Syria in the early morning of the 6th, causing heavy casualties. Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Qimai announced today (8th) that he will donate one month's salary to support Turkey's early recovery from the disaster.

Chen Qimai posted on Facebook earlier that the earthquake disaster in Turkey continued to expand, and Taiwan had also experienced a major earthquake disaster, and he felt the same.

Especially during the 921 earthquake in Taiwan, Turkey immediately rescued and helped each other, which is a precious friendship that is true in adversity.

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Chen Qimai said that after the earthquake, in addition to sending an international search and rescue team to Turkey to assist in the search and rescue, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened a donation account, hoping to further help the Turkish government to resettle the victims. He also donated one month's monthly salary. Support Turkey's early disaster recovery.

Chen Qimai also attached a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that if you want to donate to the earthquake victims, you can use the following donation account to make a donation.

Domestic donation methods:

(1) Remittance by financial institutions, account number 270750 "Central Bank Treasury Bureau", account name "Ministry of Health and Welfare Disaster Relief Special Account".

(2) Postal transfer method, transfer account number 50269506, account name "Ministry of Health and Welfare Disaster Relief Special Account".

For all donations, please indicate the designated purpose as: "Turkey Earthquake Disaster Project", and state the donor's name, phone number and receipt delivery address in the blank space, and fax to 02-85906065 to facilitate delivery of the receipt.

The contact number for donation is 02-85906640.