The campaign of the Turkish students is not over yet and is likely to add substantially to the amount in a manifestation of indelible bonds of close relationship between the two countries.
Turkish Education Minister, Hussain Chelik has informed his Pakistani counterpart Javed Ashraf Qazi that this gesture of the university, college and school students signifies Turkey's sharing of sufferings of the quake victims and carrying over of warm relationship to next generations of the two countries.
Chelik's Ministry had moved immediately after the October 8 earthquake writing letters to students' parents for immediate collection of donations.
The letters reminded the parents that Turkey was eternally indebted to Pakistan for its invaluable support to them during the war of independence motivating students and evoking an overwhelming response from the cross-section of Turkish society.
Pakistan's ambassador to Ankara, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah revealed the outpouring of sympathy by the Turkish people since October 8's deadly quake.
"I have never witnessed anything like that in my life, each Turkish heart is grieved and pulsating with support for Pakistan," he told APP.
Turkey will also send a team of experts to help assess ways to raise quakeproof infrastructure in the wrecked region. This step is being viewed as a great help for Pakistan, which has to mount daunting reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the mountainous areas sprawling over more than 20,000 sq km.