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Aimilia Balta's mother fled Turkey after a vicious war with Greece a century ago but it has not stopped the elderly Greek donating clothes for the thousands left homeless by the deadly earthquake there.
Greeks put politics aside to rush aid to Turkey
Aimilia Balta's mother fled Turkey after a vicious war with Greece a century ago but it has not stopped the elderly Greek donating clothes for the thousands left homeless by the deadly earthquake there."People are cold, so we do what we can" to help, Balta -- whose mother survived the Greek-Turkish war of 1922 -- told AFP as she left bags of woollens and overcoats at the town hall of a northern Athens suburb.