ANKARA (Realist English). In the early morning of February 6, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred in Turkey and Syria. The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) claims that the first tremors began at 4:17 a.m. at a depth of 7 km. The epicenter of the disaster was located in the Pazarcık district of the Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş.
After several big and small tremors, at 13:26 local time, another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred in Kahramanmaraş. In total, about 100 aftershocks occurred in the region, most of which exceeded 6 points.
“The earthquakes in Turkey and Syria are trials not only for the peoples living there, but for all of us. We all have to stay human or learn to become human. Especially in the case when the world looks indifferently at our own troubles and shocks. Let’s fulfill our Christian duty and pray together for the world and for the people who have not woken up today,” said the editor—in-chief of the Realist News Agency Sarkis Tsaturyan.
As of 17:40 Moscow time, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey has increased to 1,498 people. More than 5,000 people were injured. The earthquake also shook the neighboring provinces of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, Kilis and neighboring countries — Syria and Lebanon. According to the latest data, 783 people were killed in Syria.
The Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, through which oil flows from Iraq to Turkey, and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline are not damaged, and oil continues to flow through them. However, operations at the Ceyhan oil terminal in southern Turkey have been suspended. Iraqi Kurdistan has temporarily suspended its oil supplies through Ceyhan. Oil exports will resume after the completion of pipeline inspections. The terminal in the Eastern Mediterranean is located about 155 km from the epicenter of the earthquake.
The leader of the Turkish regime, Recep Erdoğan, called the manifestations of the elements the strongest disaster after the Erzincan earthquake of 1939.
On February 7, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey reached 3,549 people and continues to grow, Erdoğan said. More than 15 thousand were injured with varying severity.
There are 10 cities in the earthquake disaster zone. The Turkish government has received offers of assistance from 70 countries around the world. It is interesting to know how many countries have offered assistance to Syria? Or are they not interested in Syria?!