"Mom, are you okay? Please speak" It went viral all over the world, CNN Turk journalist shows strong emotions during the earthquake "live"

It was a touching and dramatic moment, and it was recorded live on television. When the 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Istanbul on Wednesday, CNN Turk journalist and anchor Meltem Bozbeyoğlu was live on air at the time of the quake, and her heartfelt reaction to her colleague immediately became a hot topic on social media and in the media.

While in the newsroom, trying to inform the public about the latest developments, Bozbeyoğlu asked her colleague, editor Emine Şilan Bozyurt, to call her mother. This simple but emotionally charged sentence became a symbol of the fear and uncertainty experienced by the citizens of Istanbul that day.

In an interview on journalist Ahmet Hakan's Tarafsız Bölge program, Meltem and Şilan spoke about the emotions and moments they experienced during the tremors. Meltem said that in addition to trying to inform the public, her mind immediately went to her mother, Tülay Bozbeyoğlu. "At that moment, I wrote to my mother: Mom, are you okay? Please, speak!" she said. "If such a safe building was shaking so hard, Istanbul should have collapsed."

Moreover, during the live interview, the journalist was given an emotional surprise: her mother, moved and with tears in her eyes, joined the live broadcast. With her voice trembling with emotion, Tülay Bozbeyoğlu expressed the fear she had felt as she watched her daughter on TV, not knowing if she was safe or not.

This episode has left its mark on the Turkish public, not only for the fact that it showed the consequences of an earthquake in real time, but also for the human and sensitive side that was revealed through a journalist who, even in the middle of an official broadcast, did not forget that she was the daughter of a worried mother. (A2 Televizion)