Governments around the world have offered aid and rescue workers to assist recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people in the two countries.
Germany’s International Search and Rescue left Cologne on Monday for Turkey’s Gaziantep region, where the earthquake took place. The group, which specializes in the search and rescue of people buried under rubble, said it will work with Turkish rescue teams and specialist canines to find survivors in the rubble.German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also called on Russia to help pressure Syria into allowing humanitarian aid into the country amid the country’s civil war.
Diplomatic tensions with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the civil war have made it difficult for countries to send international aid. Many Western countries have frosty relations — or, in the case of the United States, no formal diplomatic relations — with Assad.The earthquake piled further hardship onto rebel-held northwest Syria that is still suffering from years of humanitarian crisis, political conflict and widespread displacement.
Algeria dispatched 115 tonnes of emergency aid to Aleppo, and Lebanon announced it would waive taxes and fees for planes and ships bringing aid to Syria, and send a delegation made up of civil defense, engineers, Red Cross volunteers and firefighters. , the Kremlin said in a readout of the Monday call between President Vladimir Putin and Assad. Russia was Assad’s biggest ally during the civil war.
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