Published February 15,2023
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NATO is making preparations for the transportation of over 1,000 transport containers that it’s going to ship to Türkiye for the shelter of individuals affected by final week’s twin earthquakes that hit the southern a part of the nation.
“This semi-permanent shelter is capable of housing at least 2,000 people displaced by the earthquakes in Türkiye and consists of more than 1,000 shipping containers,” NATO’s Joint Force Command in Naples mentioned on Twitter.
“NATO has begun expediting the shipment of this capability and is expected to be able to begin transit of the first shipment as early as next week,” it added.
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has begun transferring containers saved at its Southern Operational Center in Taranto, Italy to their port of embarkation for cargo to Türkiye.
At least 35,418 folks have been killed by two sturdy earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned on Tuesday.
The magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 tremors final week have been centered in Kahramanmaraş and struck 9 different provinces-Hatay, Gaziantep, Adıyaman, Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakır, Kilis, Osmaniye, and Şanlıurfa. More than 13 million folks have been affected by the devastating quakes.
Several nations within the area, together with Syria and Lebanon, additionally felt the sturdy tremors that struck Türkiye within the house of lower than 10 hours.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
