Salt Bae pledges 5,000 meals a day for fellow Turks after quake as chef dubs food drive his ‘most important service’

SALT Bae has pledged to provide 5000 meals a day to fellow Turks after the earthquake disaster, which he’s dubbed his “most important service”. The death toll in the quake has now risen to 35,000 while thousands still remain buried under the rubble as time is running out to find them. Salt Bae has pledged to feed 5000 earthquake survivorsGetty A lorry with his name on it with a kitchen on board heading to the quake zone Some of the 5000 people he’s promised to feed each day Big-hearted Sun readers have raised over £1million in response to the devastation as our Sun Earthquake Appeal soared. Desperate survivors made homeless by the quake are living in freezing conditions after their homes were destroyed. To donate, visit redcross.org.uk/sunaid In response the 39-year-old celebrity chef whose real name is Nusret Gokce as arranged for a mobile kitchen to go to the disaster zone. In slick Instagram videos the lorry with his name on the side can be seen packing up and heading with survivors then seen queuing up to be fed. “It will be the most important and meaningful service in the world for us,” he said in the post. The publicity hungry chef’s was slammed for his antics at the end of the World Cup final when he was allowed onto the pitch, pestering Lionel Messi for selfie and posing with the trophy. While most of his Instagram followers praised him, there was heated debate as some cynics who saw it as a publicity stunt. “If you are doing it for advertising, may God not accept it,” said one user while another added: “Are you after advertising or not? We don’t understand.” But responding the criticism, one of his followers said: “You are the man brother Nusret – you stand by our country in all circumstances and in all matters.” It comes as the damage of Turkey’s devastating earthquakes that ripped a huge hole in the earth’s crust has been revealed by incredible pics from space. The powerful tremors catalysed the formation of the massive chasm, which is believed to have shifted the country by 10ft. It comes as… Newborn babies were among those hauled from earthquake ruins as rescuers wept with joyA Turkish teenager was pulled from earthquake rubble by Brit rescuers and asked for Harry Potter booksRescue work was halted by violent clashes and gunfire as looters run amokHarrowing earthquake images show mass graves marked with just numbersDesperate survivors made homeless by the quake are living in freezing conditions after their homes were destroyed.Heartbreaking video shows a little girl protecting her brother while stuck under rubble before they’re saved.Mystery surrounds the fate of former Premier League star Christian Atsu, who was buried under the rubble, amid conflicting reports.Love Island star Belle Hassan and her dad Tamer have lost family in the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.Fears are growing for an entire school volleyball team trapped under rubble following the catastrophic earthquakes in Turkey.Claims Turkey had failed prepare for a quake “for 20 years” and wasted £3.8bn in emergency funds raised with special tax. Rescuers in Turkey are trawling through the dangerous debris to find survivors after the ground lurched in wake of the triple quake tragedy. The movement triggered by the energy from the initial 7.8 magnitude quake, followed by a 7.7 aftershock and another 5.7 magnitude tremor, has inflicted irreversible damage on the earth. Extraordinary satellite technology has now been able to precisely map the earthquakes‘ fault lines from space. The European Union‘s Sentinel-1A satellite was launched through the atmosphere to help assess the scale of the destruction. Meanwhile, rescuers continue to scour flattened neighbourhoods searching the rubble for survivors, one week after the disaster as the number of casualties has reached 34,179. Officials and medics said 29,605 people had died in southern Turkey and 4,574 in northern Syria.