(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. Measures are
being continued to provide assistance to Azerbaijani citizens
affected by the devastating earthquake in the southern provinces of
Türkiye, trend reports citing the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
The operational headquarters, established in the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Türkiye and consulates
general, responds to and investigates hundreds of appeals received
by hotline numbers.
Based on the received data, lists of affected citizens of
Azerbaijan are compiled. In this regard, cooperation is being
carried out with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of
Health, the Ministry of Education of Türkiye, the Council of Higher
Education and other state institutions of this country.
The process of evacuation of our citizens to Azerbaijan also
continues. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the
evacuation process, a group of employees of the embassy and the
Office of the Military Attaché at the embassy was sent to the
earthquake zone.
On Feb. 7, 2023, 205 Azerbaijani citizens and their family
members who are citizens of foreign countries were sent by land
transport through Georgia to Azerbaijan on five buses from 12
provinces affected by the earthquake.
“Today, it's planned to evacuate most of our citizens, and
appropriate measures are being taken for this,” the Foreign
Ministry added.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 has 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 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.
As many as 8,574 people have been killed, and 49,133 have got
injured in the quake.