Parts of northern Syria have also been devastated.The death toll now stands at over 20 000. At least five million people are in need of aid.“The team leaders have travelled with us before. On the first night we got there, these dedicated individuals hardly had any sleep but they wanted to make sure that everyone else was ok. When it comes to equipment, they checked and rechecked to see if everything and everybody was comfortable. In times of need, we all end up covering each other.
“It’s the beginning and in my experience, people are always disappointed in the beginning,” he said, in an apparent reference to criticism over the response to the quake. He apparently meant the region’s worst natural disaster: Monday’s earthquake was Türkiye’s most devastating since 1939. Syria’s 11-year civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands and made millions homeless, remains the region’s deadliest event in recent history.