Search and rescue efforts continue after the severe earthquakes that occurred in Kahramanmaraş and felt 10 different cities in Turkey. On the 9th day of the disaster, the team of Kosovo Search and Rescue Association, who deployed to Hatay to support the rescue efforts in the country, rescued a 3-year-old girl from rubble in Antakya. […]
A truck carrying nitric acid has overturned on the Interstate 10 highway in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Following the accident, a toxic substance leaked from the truck. Two-way traffic on the highway was stopped, and people who residing within 800 meters of the area were required to leave. According to the authorities, the truck’s driver died […]
A total of 127 bristle tents sent by Kyrgyzstan for earthquake victims have been set up in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. Flying to Kahramanmaraş to visit the local authorities and receive information about the search and rescue efforts, Kyrgyz Minister of Emergency Situations Boobek Acikeyev said, “Such incidents must not reoccur. We are with you no matter what. […]
A minute’s silence was held before Champions League football matches between Paris Saint-Germain FC-Bayern Munich and Milan-Tottenham. The footballers marked of respect for victims of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria before the match which played in France and Italy.
NATO Defence Ministers met at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The Ministers of Defence held a minute of silence for the victims of the earthquakes in Türkiye before the session on the first day of the summit. Reminding everyone of the earthquake that occurred in Türkiye, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said, “Allies are providing much […]
Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe, said that the earthquake that occurred in Türkiye, which killed tens of thousands and injured more than 100,000 in Türkiye and Syria, has been the biggest natural disaster that Europe has seen in the last 100 years. Noting that it will take time to […]
Two earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 7.7 in the center of Pazarcık in Kahramanmaraş, and the other with a magnitude of 7.6 in the center of Elbistan, hit Turkey on February 6, 2023. There were 1,891 aftershocks after the earthquakes. The Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquake caused a rift dividing a 35-decare olive orchard in the middle […]
Cahit Bağcı, the Turkish Ambassador to Baku, announced that Azerbaijan sent 1,541 tons of humanitarian aid for the earthquake victims in Türkiye. Stating that all Azerbaijani state institutions were mobilized from the first minute of the earthquake, Ambassador Bağcı said, “Brother Azerbaijan, without waiting for our country’s call for international assistance, took action upon President […]
On February 6, an earthquake occurred, with the epicenter in the Pazarcık and Elbistan districts of Kahramanmaraş, resulting in the loss of 416 lives in Adana, Türkiye. While 12 buildings were destroyed in the earthquake, many others were damaged. Hospitals were also shaken by the earthquake. The earthquake moments in the hospitals were recorded by […]
During the search and rescue efforts that are carried out in the disaster zones formed after the severe earthquakes that hit Türkiye’s Mediterranean region, teams rescued a cat after hearing its voice from a collapsed 6-story building in the Defne district of Hatay. After 2 hours of effort to reach it, the cat was removed […]