Between Sunday and Monday night, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the entire region, including Turkey and Syria, as a result of which thousands of people were killed and thousands of buildings turned into piles of rubble.
In Turkey, rescue teams pulled 2 children and a woman alive from the rubble of collapsed residential buildings.
Rescuers are battling tough conditions to keep casualties from the earthquake to a minimum, trying to reach people trapped in the rubble through the night.
In the Turkish cities of Kahirman Marash and Diyarbakir, rescue workers pulled out 2 children alive from the debris.
A woman was pulled out alive in Gaziantep after a rescue dog tracked her down, Turkish media reported.
The Turkish Disaster Agency has appealed to the public to stay off the roads to make way for the vehicles of search and rescue teams.
On the other hand, the Turkish Red Crescent has instructed the volunteers not to go to the affected areas in vehicles.
Turk Halak Ahmar has said that vehicles have fallen into 50-meter deep ditches on the roads in the earthquake-affected areas and there is also snow on the roads, so be careful and do not drive in these areas by yourself.
According to a foreign news agency, China will give emergency aid of 6 million dollars to Turkey to deal with the earthquake.
The Chinese Red Cross will provide $2.2 million in emergency aid to Turkey and Syria.
Since the earthquake of magnitude 7.8 in Turkey and Syria, cooperation in aid and rescue efforts by various countries has been ongoing.
American President Joe Biden contacted his Turkish counterpart Erdogan on the phone to express his condolences on the deaths and reiterated all kinds of cooperation of the United States in the rescue efforts.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken also contacted his Turkish counterpart by phone.
According to the spokesperson of the US State Department, the US is considering additional funding sources to deal with earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
USAID’s administrator has said that the United States has deployed a team of disaster response experts in Turkey and Syria.
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