INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
2023-02-10T11:04:11.000000 Z Share fontEnable Reading ModeA-AA+Shafaq News/ Iraqs President Abdullatif Rashid on Friday called his Turkish
equivalent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to express uniformity in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes which eliminated more than 20
thousand in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria.According to the Iraqi presidency, President Rashid extended condolences to President
Erdogan, the Turkish country, and the families of the victims, wanting a speedy healing to the victims.Rashid revealed the solidarity of the
Iraqi individuals and federal government with the Turkish people in their predicament, the readout said.The Turkish president, according to
the readout, thanked President Rashid and the Iraqi individuals for their supporting position in the aftermath of the disaster.The death
toll in Turkey has reached a grim turning point, exceeding the variety of individuals killed in a 1999 earthquake in Istanbul that had
actually stayed the most terrible in the country for decades.The greatest estimates put the 1999 death toll from the magnitude 7.6
earthquake in Istanbul at about 18,000
On Friday, the death toll from the most current series of quakes, which began on Monday, reached 18,342 in Turkey
At least 3,377 likewise died in Syria.Turkeys geological place makes it vulnerable to major earthquakes
In 1939, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in northeastern Turkey was approximated to have killed over 32,000 people.
