More than ten days after the terrible earthquake, Turkey and Syria suspended rescue operations in several regions.
The new assessment of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 said on Friday evening more than 45,000 dead in the two countries, according to official sources.
In Türkiye, the number of victims increased to 39,672, according to the figures announced by the Turkish Minister of the Interior Süleyman Soyu, taken up by the news agency Anadolu. The number of deaths in Syria, on the other hand, would be around 5,800. A previous assessment reported 41,732 dead.
Turkish Minister Suleyman Soylu also said on a broadcast broadcast on the CNN Turk television channel that some 82,000 buildings had either been destroyed or seriously damaged in Turkey due to earthquakes.
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched a call for international aid on Thursday in order to collect a billion dollars to help the two devastated countries.
