On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Syria, following the deadly earthquakes in Turkey. The death toll has topped 47,000.
The local civil defense in northwestern Syria, known as The White Helmets, said thousands of children and tens of thousands of families have taken shelter in cars and tents "fearing they would face a repeat of the earthquake," according PBS.
Guest:
Alia Malek, award-winning journalist, director of international reporting at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Web Resources:
Basmeh & Zeitooneh Relief & Development
NPR: Political complications have hampered the delivery of aid in Syria
Reuters: U.N. to expand quake aid into NW Syria, but further scale-up needed -official
PBS: Death toll from massive Turkey, Syria earthquake tops 47,000
The Los Angeles Times: Syrian refugees in Turkey face harassment after quake: ‘I never felt this level of racism before’
The Guardian: ‘Where are they?’ Anger in north-west Syria at slow earthquake response
