As condolences poured in and international locations mobilized assist, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has been engaged in intense diplomatic contacts for the reason that lethal Feb. 6 earthquakes in southern Türkiye.
Çavuşoğlu has held 23 conferences and greater than 70 cellphone calls with ministers, overseas diplomats, and senior representatives of worldwide organizations.
The magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes have been centered in Kahramanmaraş and struck 10 different provinces-Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Şanlıurfa.
More than 13 million folks have been affected by the devastating quakes, whereas the dying toll is now over 44,200.
Çavuşoğlu met with Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu, overseas minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), on Feb. 9, adopted by conferences with Martin Griffiths, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency aid coordinator, on Feb. 10 and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on Feb. 11.
On Feb. 12, Çavuşoğlu met his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias within the quake-hit Hatay province, the place he thanked Greece for its assist throughout “such difficult times.”
On Feb. 13, Çavuşoğlu held separate talks Equatorial Guinea Foreign Minister Angue Simeon and Libya’s Najla Elmangoush within the capital Ankara.
In a joint press convention together with his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Ankara on Feb. 14, Çavuşoğlu praised Israel’s “serious” assist in search and rescue efforts in Kahramanmaras.
“Israel is one of the first countries that sent support to Türkiye,” mentioned Çavuşoğlu.
On the identical day, Çavuşoğlu held a gathering with Nechirvan Barzani, head of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).
On Feb. 15, he met Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Minister Elmedin Konakovic, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Jordan’s Ayman Safadi, and Florent Ntsiba, state minister and director of the Presidential Cabinet of Congo, in Ankara.
On Feb. 16, Çavuşoğlu met Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister Arnoldo Andre Tinoco and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who traveled to Türkiye to increase solidarity and assist.
“Our NATO allies immediately sent support to Türkiye after the earthquake,” Çavuşoğlu mentioned.
On Feb. 18, Uzbekistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Bahtiyor Saidov paid a go to to Ankara, the place Çavuşoğlu hailed Uzbekistan for standing by Türkiye at a difficult time.
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE VISITS TÜRKİYE
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a go to to Türkiye on Feb. 19-20 to specific solidarity and convey Washington’s assist.
Çavuşoğlu and Blinken carried out an aerial inspection of the quake-hit area.
On Feb. 20, they held a joint news convention in Ankara, the place Blinken mentioned he was “profoundly saddened” by the devastation.
Later that day, Çavuşoğlu held a joint news convention together with his North Macedonian counterpart Bujar Osmani, in addition to Helga Schmid, secretary basic of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Çavuşoğlu hosted Crimean Tatar chief Mustafa Abdülcemil Kırımoğlu on Feb. 21, in addition to Jang Sung-min, particular consultant of the president of South Korea.
On Feb. 22, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi and Johan Forssell, the worldwide growth minister of Sweden, paid a go to to Ankara.
On Feb. 23, Çavuşoğlu held separate conferences with Hissein Brahim Taha, secretary basic of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and Muhammad Musa Bello, Nigeria’s federal capital territory minister and particular presidential envoy.
The similar day, Çavuşoğlu held a joint news convention together with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bouhabib and Ali Hamie, Lebanon’s transport minister, who visited Ankara to voice solidarity with Türkiye.
Besides conferences and cellphone calls, Çavuşoğlu has additionally acquired greater than 100 messages of solidarity and assist.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
