Wayne Circassian Group Assisting Syrian, Turkish Families Impacted by Deadly Earthquake

The Circassian Benevolent Association formed a Crisis Committee to assist Adigha families and villages affected by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 7,000 people and injured tens of thousands, according to the nations' officials. The organization shared contacts for the Crisis Committee and said more information would follow. The Circassian Benevolent Association formed in 1952 and serves a local community estimated at about 5,000 people, according to its website. Circassians are an ethnic group indigenous to the North Caucasus — a subregion of Eastern Europe in the Eurasian...