Earthquakes

The decree on holding presidential elections was signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

4,444 buildings were damaged or completely destroyed.

The country's Emergency Management Department reported that the death toll is 45,089 people.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a video message to the World Government Summit in Dubai, announced the rescue of more than 8 thousand people from the rubble in earthquake-affected areas.

After the devastating earthquake in Turkey, the mayor of Erzin from Hatay province, Okkesh Elmasoglu, became the main national hero. On the territory of the 42-thousandth city, located in the epicenter of the earthquake, not a single house collapsed during the impact of the elements and not a single resident died.

Seismologists have recorded an intense earthquake of magnitude 5.5 in the Pacific Ocean near the Kuril Islands.

According to The Washington Post (WP) and Anadolu, the total number of deaths in earthquakes in Syria and Turkey exceeded 28 thousand people.

The first plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations with humanitarian aid for the earthquake-affected residents of Syria has already arrived in this country.

The first batch of humanitarian aid from the Russian Federation for earthquake victims has arrived in Syria. It was delivered by a military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces to the Russian Khmeimim airbase. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

When analyzing the wreckage after the earthquake in Turkish Hatay, rescuers found the bodies of a Russian citizen and her child.

The Ministry of Health will send a team of 11 doctors to Turkey to help people injured during the earthquake.

Russian tour operators do not see the mass abandonment of previously planned tours to Turkey after the large-scale earthquake in this country. The demand for this direction decreased somewhat on Monday, when it became known about the incident.