UN launches appeal for $1 billion for earthquake aid operations in Turkey | Turkey and Syria earthquake news

After launching a $400 million appeal for Syrians, the United Nations has now appealed for funds for Turkey’s relief operation.

The United Nations has appealed for more than $1 billion to finance the Turkish earthquake relief operation, just two days after launching a $400 million appeal for the Syrians.

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, who visited Turkey last week, said Thursday that people have “suffered indescribable grief,” adding: “We must stand with them in their darkest hour and ensure they receive the support they need.”

The February 6 earthquake has so far killed at least 36,187 in southern Turkey, while authorities in neighboring Syria have reported 5,800 deaths.

Rescue efforts have continued in Turkey, but the number of people rescued daily has dwindled dramatically.

A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Kahramanmaras province on Thursday – more than ten days after a devastating earthquake hit the region. But such rescues are becoming increasingly rare.

The 17-year-old was safely pulled from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, TRT Haber broadcaster reports, 248 hours after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the dead of night on February 6.

For families still awaiting the return of missing relatives, there is growing anger over what they see as corrupt building practices and deeply flawed urban development that has resulted in the disintegration of thousands of homes and businesses.

Turkey promised to investigate anyone suspected of responsibility for the building collapse and ordered the detention of more than 100 suspects, including developers.

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Across the border in Syria, an earthquake has struck a region divided and ravaged by 12 years of civil war.

The Syrian government put the death toll in territory it controls at 1,414. More than 4,000 deaths have been reported in the rebel-held northwest, but rescuers say no one has been found alive there since February 9.

Relief efforts have been hampered by conflict, and many people in the northwest feel abandoned as supplies are almost constantly destined for other parts of the sprawling disaster zone.

Deliveries from Turkey stopped completely in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, when a route used by the United Nations was temporarily blocked. Earlier this week, days after the disaster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to open two more crossings.

As of Thursday, 119 UN trucks have passed through the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salam border crossings between Turkey and Syria since the earthquake, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs told Reuters.

A convoy of 15 aid trucks coming from Qatar has arrived in the rebel-held city of Afrin in Syria, carrying much-needed food, essential medicine and tents.

The crisis will drag on, said Jagan Chapagin, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and announced that his organization would more than triple its appeal for assistance to both countries.

“Its impact on people will not end in three months, so we have a 24-month perspective,” he said in Beirut, on his way from Syria to Turkey.

The potential economic impact of the earthquake in Turkey could lead to a loss of up to one percent of the country’s GDP this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in a report published on Thursday.

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