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Turkey: President Erdogan declares 3-month state of emergency in 10 earthquake-hit provinces

Turkey: On Tuesday, Turkish President Erdogan declared a 3-month state of emergency in 10 provinces affected by the massive earthquake, which has killed more than 3,500 people alone in the country. Erdogan said in a televised address, "We have decided to declare a state of emergency to ensure that our (rescue and recovery) work can be carried out quickly."

By: Priyanka Verma  Pardaphash Group
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Turkey: President Erdogan declares 3-month state of emergency in 10 earthquake-hit provinces

Turkey: On Tuesday, Turkish President Erdogan declared a 3-month state of emergency in 10 provinces affected by the massive earthquake, which has killed more than 3,500 people alone in the country. Erdogan said in a televised address, “We have decided to declare a state of emergency to ensure that our (rescue and recovery) work can be carried out quickly.”

“We will quickly complete the presidential and parliamentary processes related to this decision, which will cover our 10 provinces where the earthquake has been experienced and will last for three months.”“We are declaring ten cities impacted by the earthquake disaster zone”, the Turkish president said, adding that the death toll had risen to 3,549.

Erdogan’s government is coming under growing pressure on social media for what his critics view as a slow response to Turkey’s biggest earthquake in nearly a century. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said 5,775 buildings had been destroyed in the quake, which was followed by 285 aftershocks, and that 20,426 people had been injured.

In Syria, the death toll stood at just over 1,600, according to the government and a rescue service in the insurgent-held northwest.Erdogan said his government would send more than 50,000 aid workers to the area and allocate 100 billion liras ($5.3 billion) in financial help.

Erdogan’s handling of the biggest natural disaster in his two-decade rule could prove crucial ahead of tightly-contested parliamentary and presidential polls on May 14. “It’s now a race against time,” World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva. “Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors alive diminishes.”

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