After weeks of rescue efforts, the main focus of Turkish authorities has shifted towards rehabilitation within the nation’s 11 provinces devastated by two 7.7 and seven.6 magnitude quakes which have left greater than 50,000 useless in Türkiye and neighbouring Syria.
The twin quakes had been centred in Kahramanmaras and struck 10 different provinces – Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa.
The quakes had been adopted by 9,136 aftershocks, leaving not less than 44,218 folks useless in Türkiye alone, AFAD, the nation’s catastrophe administration company, says. In Syria, the dying toll stood at 5,914.
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0056 GMT — Kenyan businessman sells gold necklace to assist quake victims
Kenyan businessman Rashid Jama has stated he offered a gold necklace value $3,745 to boost cash for earthquake victims in Türkiye.
Jama instructed Anadolu Agency that he was compelled to take motion after listening to concerning the earthquakes which have claimed greater than 44,200 lives in southern Türkiye.
“I was very touched and saddened by the news when I saw the scale of the destruction,” he stated.
0004 GMT — Head of UN-Habitat visits ‘apocalyptic’ scenes in quake-hit space
The government director of the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) has visited the Turkish province of Gaziantep, one of many provinces affected by the dual quakes that hit the southern area of the nation earlier this month.
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, accompanied by Turkish first woman Emine Erdogan, Environment Minister Murat Kurum and Minister of Family and Social Services Derya Yanik visited container cities within the Nurdagi and Islahiye districts and talked to victims.
Sharif stated she got here to supply condolences, solidarity and hope to survivors.
She thanked the Turkish first woman for bringing her to the quake-hit zone and stated: “I came here personally to witness the catastrophe. I can watch it from YouTube, I can watch it from TV but I decided to come here personally.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets his Azerbaijani counterpart in Istanbul as Ilham Aliyev is on go to to indicate solidarity and assist after #TurkiyeQuakes pic.twitter.com/BikQYUs1OM
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2343 GMT — Georgian search and rescue crew returns to Tbilisi
A Georgian search and rescue crew has returned to Tbilisi from quake-hit Türkiye.
“The Georgian search and rescue team returning from Hatay was met at the airport by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the head of the emergency management service, employees of the embassy and its departments and Turkish businessmen,” the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi wrote on Twitter.
The embassy thanked the crew in Turkish and Georgian.
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