CTO Of Turkish Baykar Technology Meets Azerbaijani Volunteers In Quake-Hit Kahramanmaras

3/3/2023 5:21:47 AM

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 3. Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Turkish Baykar technology company Selcuk Bayraktar visited the camp of Azerbaijani volunteers providing help to the quake victims in Turkish Kahramanmaras and inquired about their activities on March 2, the Azerbaijani Youth Foundation told trend .

Selcuk Bayraktar and his wife Sumeyye Erdogan took part in the opening of the Women's Support Center, where the Azerbaijani youth would work. Bayraktar highly commended the major assistance campaigns conducted by the Azerbaijani state and people, as well as the noble activities of Azerbaijani volunteers in the country. Meanwhile, he expressed gratitude to Azerbaijan for the solidarity shown in these difficult days.

For more than 20 days, the Azerbaijani youth volunteer organizations have been providing assistance to victims of the natural disaster, unloading and sorting food, clothes, medicines, and other relief supplies at distribution points in quake-affected areas, giving out water and hot drinks and offering other support services in tents set up in badly-hit Kahramanmaras, Hatay, Adiyaman, and Malatya provinces. The volunteers are also actively involved in humanitarian activities in remote villages of the disaster area.

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 severe destruction. Following the earthquake that hit Türkiye, strong tremors were also felt in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Cyprus.

On February 21, 6.4-magnitude and 5.4-magnitude tremors were felt in the Turkish Hatay province, which had already been damaged by the deadly earthquake of Feb. 6. The earthquakes caused heavy destruction and personal injuries.

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