Türkiye declared seven days of nationwide mourning after catastrophic earthquakes and 145 aftershocks devastated the nation’s southeastern provinces, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned Monday.
In a message posted on his official Twitter account, the president mentioned the nation has declared every week of mourning and can decrease its flags to half-mast at house and at diplomatic missions internationally till Feb. 12, 2023.
At least 1,651 folks had been killed whereas 11,119 others had been injured following magnitudes 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes with an epicenter in Kahramanmaraş province devastated 10 provinces within the nation’s southeast.
Tremors from the earthquake that rocked Türkiye and neighboring Syria on Monday had been felt as far-off as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland mentioned.
Monday’s quake is the deadliest in Turkey since a 7.4-magnitude one in 1999 when greater than 17,000 folks died, together with about 1,000 in Istanbul.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
