After weeks of search and rescue efforts, the focus of Turkish authorities has now turned to rehabilitate the injured and meet the housing needs of the people displaced by the massive earthquakes.
AFAD, Türkiye's disaster management agency, says the quakes, centred in the country's Kahramanmaras province, were followed by 9,136 aftershocks, leaving at least 44,218 people dead in Türkiye. In Syria, the death toll has hit 5,914. you can help the earthquake victims. Canada has answered the UN call for more aid, announcing another CAN$30 million for those affected by the disastrous earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria.
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Andy Roesgen gives us more details about the tent and container cities being used to house TurkiyeQuakes survivors in Hatay province