Twin quakes, nine hours apart, that rocked Türkiye and Syria have been ranked as the world’s deadliest natural disasters of this century.
The energy expelled by the earth was twice as devastating as the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
More than 35 000 people have been killed and over 80-thousand people are injured and treated in hospitals, with more than a million being cared for in temporary shelters.
Turkish Ambassador Ayşegül Kandaş, the Ambassador of Turkey to South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini spoke to Radio Islam International and explained the situation on the ground and their immediate needs.