Wednesday, February 8, 2023

【Extra】M7.8 in Türkiye

昨日の晩、本年2度目のイスタンブール旅行から戻ってきました。

今回の滞在中に、いま大騒ぎになっているトルコ南部の大地震が発生しました。(下写真はホテル前の寺。地震とは関係ありません)
帰国する2日前の朝... ボディーガードのブルートくんが青ざめた顔でホテルへやってきました。

「どうかしたの?」
「アジア側で大地震があった。ビルが倒れまくりで沢山ヒトが氏んでいる…」
「大変だ! 君の実家は大丈夫?」
「俺の家族は大丈夫だけど、友人の父が亡くなって母が行方不明…」

うわ… 返す言葉が見つからないまま、予定通りに朝食ブッフェに入場。
目の前に『顔の上半分が斜線で一杯になってる、屠殺前の熊』みたいなのがいると、味がしない

でも… ここ地震大国だし、充分な技術力もあるだろうに… 何故耐震構造の建物を造らないのか不思議。
その点を素直に質問してみたら、最後を悟った熊の、縁起の悪そうな表情がさらに深まりました。

「耐震構造のための建材を発注しても、現場の作業員が盗んで売り払う

つまり強度持たせる部分で手抜き工事するわけ?…それ、いっちゃんダメな奴じゃん!

『後進国』という単語が脳内を激しく飛び交いましたが、まだそういう國なんでしょう。

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「悪いが今日は、家へ戻って使わない毛布等を寄付でモスクへ届けたりする」
「判った。旅行者の僕には何もできないけれど…」

今回は使い切れないと思われる余分なリラ札を、モスクへの寄付のために預けました。別にブルートくんが使っちゃってもいいけどね、口でお見舞い言うよりはマシだと思ったからです。汗や血は流さないがカネは払う。自分がとても日本人だと思いました。

イスタンブールでも、ほぼ摂氏ゼロの寒波でした。
災害の起きたあたりも雪が降り積もって寒そうです。
一人でも多くの方が無事救出されれば、と思います。

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さて、昨年10月からは… IST, ATH, NRT, IST, IST と飛んでいますが、写真は手つかず。
てか、最近は写真を撮るのもサボりぎみです。
元気の出たときに、順番が滅茶苦茶かもしれませんが、少し掲載できればと思います。

4 comments:

  1. I apologize for not being able to comment for a long time. I was busy welcoming another full-time doctor at my clinic, so I was only able to come and go on Atsu-san's blog, not for any other reason.

    Anyway, I'm upset to know the large earthquake occurred in southern Turkey , which is currently causing a great stir, during your stay.

    And I understand why your bodyguard, Brutus, came to the hotel with a pale face.
    It's a tragedy that his friend's father has died and his mother is missing, isn't it ?
    I can imagine you couldn't find the right words to say...however, you went to the breakfast buffet as planned (lol).

    In the end, I was relieved to know that you are safe. I pray for the souls of those who lost their lives in the earthquake and for adequate protection for those affected by the disaster.

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    1. Yamada Denki Sensei,

      Welcome back and thank you for posting this comment. This really, truly and honestly relieves my guilty feelings which I couldn’t specify exactly why you stopped posting comments… I thought I had replied you with certain strong wordings or some sort. Anyhow, I am glad we didn’t really brake up. During this pandemic, I lost friends (Mr. Tamura and another T-college colleague) and a family member (brother in law) so I am mentally emotionally damaged somehow.
      I can imagine you got another MD in your clinic. Instructing something to someone is an important but frustrating task. Please feel free to leave anything you like at here for your stress relief.

      Thank you for your kind words in regards to the tragedy in Türkiye and Syria. I now keep exchanging messages with friends including Brute-kun in Istanbul. The good news is, those Muslim relations and connections are well teamed-up there. What my friends are doing is, gathering essential items such as blankets, heaters, baby diapers, etc. or simply money, then bring those to the mosque where they are belonging to. Then the ‘mosque networks’ are amazingly arranging and sending those relief aids to the right places appropriately.
      But the bad part is, the government didn’t enforce the laws or funds for citizen’s safety and security seriously in prior to this mega disaster. Simultaneously, as per I wrote above what I heard from Brute-kun, the ‘corruption’ of construction workers really corrupted the buildings they built… this is a sad story where still under developing to be an advanced civilization.

      Now I am looking for the best way to donate some, but so many tricks and traps over the Internet. I maybe wiring some to Turkish embassy but I only know one in Tokyo opened an account at Mitsubishi bank, so I may do it when I visit Japan in March.

      My next plan to visit Türkiye is in April, then Asian side of the country in July. I too hope they recover well so that I won’t see anything miserable.

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  2. Thank you for reply.
    The reason my break from posting is just preparing for a new doctor who will be taking over the clinic, and it had nothing to do with you. I am sorry to hear that you lost friends and family members during this pandemic and it must have been a difficult time for you.

    OK, let me feel free to continue posting as I did before. I will be here to read your articles and to post comments (lol).

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    1. Yamada Denki sensei…

      May I confess??
      I definitely, absolutely and undoubtedly expected the ‘new’ doctor must be a “doctress” because you don’t want to be trespassed your ‘harem’ by other male staff. (lol)
      Simultaneously, I was quite surprised by your words “take over.” Well, although we are achieving the age who are able to receive national pensions or Medicare (←this one is only for US citizens though), especially the persons under healthcare services prefer keep up and running their jobs, I thought. In any cases, I do need your suggestions and/or support until I (or my ruin) will be taking care by iSO-san for the “next level” so please stay tuned.

      Those unexpectedly early sayonara situations were shocking, and it sequentially happening every single year. Loosing brother-in-law by Covid was a big surprise but it was yet understandable because late-2020 was still quite toxic Delta variants are the vast majority in the States therefore he was put on the ventilator. However, loosing Mr. O. who is my colleague of T-University, was unbelievably shocking news. I heard he got leukemia and passed. In contrast, I got Lymphoma 9yrs ago but I’m still living as almost normal after the radiation therapy… This world is quite unfair to everybody. Those who, helping / supporting someone else, are losing their lives in their early stages. Then, those who sucking someone’s affections or goodwill are normally living, enjoying their lives much longer… this is unfair.
      I do remember the juvenile literature “アリとキリギリス” but the real world is showing very o[opposite samples… like me as a キリギリス who didn’t work seriously in my young, and now enjoy a life without fear…

      Well… U.S.キリギリス will be soon approaching Okayama to devastate the world where established by honest group of アリ… so please be prepared. :))

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