On Monday, President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev on Monday instructed to work out the issues of collecting and providing humanitarian aid to Syria and Turkey affected by the devastating earthquake. This was reported to IA "Res" by the press Secretary of the head of state, Natalia Bosikova.
"The humanitarian aid collection point is already open and is located in the building of the Committee for Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism," Bosikova said. On the spot you can get all the necessary information on the collection.
According to incoming information, search and rescue operations have been completed in Syria and Turkey, and humanitarian issues have begun to be resolved in both countries.
"People of South Ossetia felt the consequences of the earthquake in the 90s and are well aware of how much help and support from outside is needed at such moments. Today, the head of state instructed the relevant organizations to deal with the collection and delivery of humanitarian cargo from South Ossetia to Syria and Turkey. We will announce more about this mission later," she said.
Earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 with a difference of more than 9 hours occurred on February 6 in the southeast of Turkey. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, they have become the strongest since 1939; he called them "the catastrophe of the century." According to the latest data, more than 31 thousand people died. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in 10 provinces of the country and neighboring states, including Syria, in which, according to the latest WHO information, about 8.5 thousand people have died.
