BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. The UN has
announced that it is going to provide $25 million in humanitarian
aid to Türkiye and Syria following deadly earthquakes that have
claimed more than 6,000 lives, the official representative of the
Secretary General of the world organization Stéphane Dujarric said,
Trend reports,
citing Turkish media.
“UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Teams are in Adana
today and will travel to Gaziantep tomorrow to support Turkish
search and rescue teams,” he said.
According to Dujarric, there are Syrian refugees among the
victims of the earthquake in Türkiye. He noted that more than 1.7
million of the 15 million people living in 10 provinces affected by
the earthquakes in Türkiye are Syrian refugees.
“We will do whatever the Turkish Government wants us to do, and
try to be as helpful as possible,” he added.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 hit southeastern Türkiye
on Feb. 6, 2023. The earthquake occurred at a depth of seven
kilometers in the Pazarcik region of Kahramanmaras Province. The
provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adiyaman,
Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, and Kahramanmaras were subjected to
severe destruction.
The quake’s epicenter was located 26 km away from the city of
Gaziantep with a population of about 1.06 million.
Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said that
three more earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6 rocked Gaziantep
province in south-eastern Türkiye. As a result of the earthquake
that hit Türkiye, strong tremors were also felt in Syria, Lebanon,
Egypt, and Cyprus.
According to the latest data, as a result of the earthquake,
5,434 people were killed, 31,777 people were injured, and 5,775
buildings were destroyed.
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