As rescuers look for earthquake survivors in Turkey, loved ones in the UK watch the search remotely.
The Zoom link, he says, has been shared in Turkish WhatsApp groups. Dozens of people have been joining in the hopes of finding out their loved ones are safe.
"A lot of us have a decent amount of followers on social media, so we started posting: 'These are the places you can go to to donate - if you can't go, contact us, and we'll come and pick donations up directly from your house'," he says. "We drove around London, from south to north, everywhere, on Monday and Tuesday."
Silan Polat and Sevgi Akgoz are part of the group that's been sorting through donations. The trip, they say, is going to be a struggle for those going."Some of the villages are blocked off because the roads are damaged, so people from here are going to try and access those areas however they can," Ms Akgoz says. "There's no electricity, so some people can't even contact us to let us know where they are or what they need.
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