(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. Donations from
Azerbaijani banks to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management
Agency (AFAD) will be made without commission, the Press Service of
the Azerbaijan Banks Association (ABA) told trend .
The ABA noted that transfers of both legal entities and
individuals would be carried out with no commissions.
The State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy of the
Republic of Azerbaijan announced the VAT exemptions for all
donation transfers through e-payment systems.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Türkiye on Feb. 6,
2023. The earthquake occurred at a depth of seven kilometers in the
Pazarcik region of Kahramanmaras Province. The provinces of Hatay,
Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adiyaman, Sanliurfa,
Diyarbakir, Adana and Kahramanmaras were subjected to the severe
destruction.
The quake's epicenter was located 26 km away from the city of
Gaziantep with a population of about 1.06 million.
Türkiye's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said that
three more earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6 rocked Gaziantep
province in south-eastern Türkiye. As a result of the earthquake
that hit Türkiye, strong tremors were also felt in Syria, Lebanon,
Egypt, and Cyprus.
Following the latest data, 8,574 people have been killed, and
49,133 have got injured in the quake.
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