Bana Alabed is a seven years old girl who unfolded the story of besieged Aleppo to the whole world through social media added a new twist of adventures in her life when she met the Turkish President Erdogan in Ankara.
The meeting was filmed and caught on camera, Bana Alabed, from the core pf her heart thanked Erdogan for all the support he had given and for the lives he had saved. According to CNN News, Erdogan and Mevlut Cavusoglu contacted Bana through twitter when the incidents that happened with her caught their
attention, they encouraged her to stay strong.
She used the social media as a tool to show the whole world what was happening in Aleppo. The posts were written by her mother Fatemah, an English teacher.She has 360,000 followers on her social media account and in her recent tweet, she was thanking Erdogan.
Participation of Turkey in the conflict is neutral as The Time stated. On the one hand, Ankara is working to eliminate ISIS out, and on the other hand, they are working to drive Kurdish soldiers off from Syrian's part of the border. This is because they could have an independent state of Kurdish which can demand Turkish territory.
Erdogan later tweeted in the favor of Syria and also said that he was pleased to have had Bana Alabed and her family with him. He said that Turkey will stand with Syria no matter what. There are 172 Aleppo survivors, 68 of them are children and are now undergoing treatments at the hospitals in Turkey.
The patients who were in critical condition were shifted to the hospitals in Southeastern Hatay. Bana Alabed is the girl who picked the matters and violence happening in Aleppo up and presented them in public; Mevlut said that they would be brought to Turkey soon.
She has two brothers Noor 3, and her parents. Bana used the power of social media to bring a positive change in Aleppo. Fatemah, however, felt sad leaving Aleppo because she had spent her life there.
They had to spend one whole day in a bus without food or water, like a prisoner but she thanked all her friends and those people who had helped her. After Aleppo was besieged, Fatemah decided to tell the whole world what was happening and used social media, a powerful tool to deliver the message to every corner of the world.