IN 1890, A JAPANESE FISHING VILLAGE SAVED 69 TURKISH SAILORS. 95 YEARS LATER, TURKEY PAID IT BACK 🇯🇵🇹🇷 September 1890. An Ottoman warship called the Ertugrul was heading home from Japan when a typhoon threw it onto the rocks near Kushimoto, at the southern tip of Japan's main island. More than 500 sailors died. The people of the small island nearby ran down to the water in the storm and pulled survivors out. By many accounts, they had very little food themselves, and gave the sailors what they had. 69 men survived. Japan sent them home on two of its own warships. Japan mostly forgot. Turkey didn't. Generations of Turkish kids learned the story at school. March 1985. War between Iran and Iraq. Iraq announced it would shoot down any plane over Iran after a deadline. More than 200 Japanese were stuck in Tehran, and under Japan's laws at the time, its own military planes could not go and get them. Turkey sent two Turkish Airlines planes. They flew 215 Japanese out before the deadline. When people later asked why, the answer from Turkey kept coming back to one word. Ertugrul. Today, Kushimoto still holds a memorial for the sailors, and Turkey still sends people to stand there.

📍 Daman Village Community Garden, Mali 🇲🇱⁠ ⁠ Alhamdulillah, women in Daman village are tending and nurturing crops supported by your generous donations, bringing fresh, organic produce and food security to families in need.⁠ ⁠ From fresh peppers and okra to thriving papayas, this is your sadaqah in action. May Allah (swt) accept it from you and reward you abundantly.

Phone charging station in a village in Africa

Türkiye is the only place in the world where natural black roses grow, fed by the waters of the Euphrates. A very rare type of flower, only in the village of Halfeti, southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, near Urfa province. They appear black during the summer, in other seasons they are very dark red. This variety is due to the density of the soil and the combination of anthocyanins, water-soluble pigments; The soil has a huge impact on this type of pigment, since it is quite sensitive to pH. *ai generated. Not a real picture.

Türkiye is the only place in the world where natural black roses grow, fed by the waters of the Euphrates. A very rare type of flower, only in the village of Halfeti, southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, near Urfa province. They appear black during the summer, in other seasons they are very dark red. This variety is due to the density of the soil and the combination of anthocyanins, water-soluble pigments; The soil has a huge impact on this type of pigment, since it is quite sensitive to pH. 🖤

Village life in the early 20th century

Over 100 people were killed, and dozens more injured, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked the village of Wad al Noora in Sudan’s Gezira state on June 5, officials said. UNICEF Executive Director Catherina Russell said in a statement that at least 35 children were killed and 20 others injured during the attacks. On June 6, Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council accused the RSF of committing a massacre in the village and killing “a large number of innocents,” while the RSF said they attacked three camps housing elements of the army and intelligence personnel. Madani Resistance Committee, a local pro-democracy activists group, put the toll at “more than 104,” and accused the paramilitaries of looting Wad al Noura during the attacks. The war between the RSF and the Sudanese army, which broke out in April 2023, has wrecked the country as clashes spread across multiple cities and pushed its population to the brink of famine. More than 14,000 people have been killed and thousands more have been wounded, with hundreds of thousands displaced.

A new #waterwell was put into service with prayers in Kumasi, Ghana 🇬🇭 At least 7000 people will benefit from the well opened in Awdumakase village ☺ #OneropAThousandLives 💦 🌐iddef.org/en/drop-by-drop-a-well-comes-along

📍 Another village gained cleaner water in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩. Your donations carried the blessings of #Ramadan thousands of kilometers away. 😊 #SpreadKindness 🌙 👉🏻 Support Now! 🌐 iddef.org/en/drop-by-drop-a-well-comes-along

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