Turkey-Syria earthquake
Turkey-Syria earthquake: Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are facing cold and hunger in Turkey and Syria as authorities grapple with a horrific humanitarian disaster.
Cairo, Egypt: Millions of homeless people buried under rubble face cold and hunger as authorities in Turkey and Syria deal with the devastating humanitarian disaster caused by an earthquake that killed more than 35,000 people.
More than a week after the earthquake, as hopes of finding anyone alive under the rubble dwindled, attention turned to providing food and shelter for the large number of survivors.
According to the Turkish government, about 1.2 million people were housed in hostels, more than 206,000 tents were set up and 400,000 victims were evacuated from the affected areas.
The disaster also had a psychological cost. Sarkan Tatuoglu, a 41-year-old father of four living in a tent camp near the epicenter in Kahramanmaras, described how his family suffered losses in anticipation of aftershocks.
"Our youngest, startled by the aftershocks, wonders, "Dad, are we going to die?'" Tatoğlu said of his 6-year-old son.
Vice President Fawat Okte said that the parents of 574 children rescued from the collapsed buildings could not survive.
Of these, only 76 were returned to other relatives.
A levy psychologist working at a children's center in Hatay said numerous parents were hopeless to find missing children.
" We entered multitudinous calls concerning missing youths," Hatice Göz stated.
still, if the child is still mute, his family will be unfit to detect him.
"Millions must be supplied"
In the devastated Turkish city of Antakya, sanitation workers cleared debris and installed basic toilets while telephone networks were restored in parts of the city, an AFP correspondent said. After several incidents over the weekend, police and soldiers patrolled the city to prevent looting.
"Send as many as you can because there are millions of people here and they all have to be fed," Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Sunday night.
AFP teams reported that food and other relief supplies reached Antakya and Kahramanmaras.
The economic cost of the disaster could reach $84.1 billion, with about $71 billion going to housing, Turkish employers' organization Turkonfed said in a report on Monday.
Of particular concern is neighboring Syria, already ravaged by 12 years of civil war.
The United Nations held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss how to scale up aid to rebel-held areas as anger grew over the slow international response to the rogue state.
Isolated and subject to Western sanctions, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for international aid to help rebuild infrastructure in the country, which has displaced more than five million people, according to UN estimates. have done.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Assad had agreed to open two more border crossings from Turkey into northwestern Syria to allow aid supplies to enter.
Before the earthquake, almost all humanitarian aid for the more than four million people living in rebel-held areas in northwest Syria was delivered through a single corridor.
According to Guterres, opening these border crossings will make it simpler to receive humanitarian supplies, speed up the arrival of more aid, issue visas more quickly, and facilitate transport between locations.
Giving to Syria
Further than a week after a7.8- magnitude earthquake stumbled structures in the region, stories of people alive under the debris continue to crop .
But experts advise that stopgap of chancing further survivors is fading.
On Monday, 8- time-old sisters Harun and 15- time-old Ayfan were saved 181 hours after Turkey's fifth deadliest earthquake of the 21st century, Anadolu news agency reported.
Proteo, a Mexican military deliverance canine, failed while searching for survivors under the debris in Turkey.
The Mexican military twittered on Monday" You have completed your charge. Thank you for your heroic work."
The confirmed death toll stands at 35,331, as officials and doctors say 31,643 have died in Turkey and at least 3,688 in Syria(Turkey-Syria earthquake).
The death toll in Syria has not changed much for several days and is expected to rise.
Trucks loaded with shelters entered northwestern Syria from Turkey on Monday.
But UN officials said more aid is needed for the millions whose homes have been destroyed.
On Monday, Sudan sent a plane carrying 30 tons of aid to Syria(Turkey-Syria earthquake).
According to Suleiman Khalil, an official of the Syrian Ministry of Transport, 62 planes carrying relief goods have landed in Syria so far and more are expected, especially from Saudi Arabia, in the coming days.
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