Indian Turkey operation Dost provides medical assistance and humanitarian aids

India deploys 2 Turkish speaking officers, 4 MEA personnel in Turkey under ‘Operation Dost’

Under ‘Operation Dost’ India has provided assistance to Turkey and deployed two Turkish speaking officers, four MEA personnel in the wake of earthquake-hit country, Ministry of External Affairs. said on Wednesday. MEA has deputed two Turkish-speaking officers from abroad who went to Turkey and are posted there. MEA Secretary West Sanjay Verma said during a special briefing on ‘Operation Dost’.

We have also established a control room in Adana. The Consul General from Istanbul and other officials from our Mission in Ankara are deployed on the ground in all affected areas,” said the Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs.

India on Monday extended humanitarian aid to Turkey following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that ripped through Turkey and Syria, followed by a series of aftershocks, causing massive devastation, loss of life and damage to infrastructure in both countries. reached up. As per the latest estimates, around 10,000 people have lost their lives in both the countries.

After this, four such flights have been sent to Turkey, out of which two are carrying NDRF teams and two medical teams. A plane of the carrying medicals supplies and the equipments was sent to Syrian and said to the secretary.

He further explained that on February 6, an earthquake struck Turkey and the southern part of Syria and many reports continue to magnify the magnitude of the tragedy and affected ten province’s, but seven of them are in critical conditions and about 435 aftershocks to the occurred.

He said 8,574 people were killed and 49,133 were injured in Turkey and 6,444 buildings collapsed, while the death toll in Syria rose to 1,262 and 2,285 people were injured.

Giving details about the medical assistance provided by India to Turkey and Syria, National Disaster Response Force DG Atul Karwal said that under ‘Operation Dost’ the first teams of the landed at Adana airports and the 2 diverted to the Urfa. Given, because there was a crowd in Adana. , Both of them are being gathered in Nurdagi, which is in Gaziantep province, one of the worst affected areas.

I met him at Hindon airport. In the next few hours, they will depart with 51 rescuers, a canine complement and 4 vehicles,” Karwal said.

We have more teams in reserve as we do not know how many more teams will be required. The damage is the widespread over a very largest areas and we have to stand ready to the extended all possible help to any additionals team Indian may provided to Turkey’s in this times of the crisis.

Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India is providing material, supplies, medical supplies and equipment to Syria, along with sending search and rescue teams to Turkey under ‘Operation Dost’.