...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and Syria, according to official figures.
A destructive 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Kurdish city of Kahramanmaras in Turkey on February 6, with its impact also ripping through neighbouring Syria. Another quake followed in both countries hours later.
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...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...said the twin quakes have killed 35,418 people and injured 105,505 others in Turkey.
The corpse count was below 32,000 the previous day.
A number of Syrian cities, which are under the control of regime and pro-Turkey forces, were also affected by the tremor.
Over 4,300 people have been reported dead in Turkey-held areas in northwest Syria, according to the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
. The Syrian government has also reported over 1100 deaths.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a report sent to Rudaw English late Tuesday that 5,417 people were killed by the twin quakes in all affected parts of Syria.
Earthquake Victims’ Toll In Syria Reaches 3.694 Deaths, 14.814 Injuries
[NPASyria] The toll of the victims of the earthquake that hit Syria on Feb. 6 at dawn has risen to 3.694 deaths and 14.814 injuries in a provisional count.
On Tuesday, the Syrian government announced that the final toll for the earthquake victims in areas under its control reached 1.414 deaths and 2.357 injuries.
The Civil Defense of the Syrian opposition in Idlib declared the fatalities number in northwest Syria has reached 2.274 deaths and more than 12.400 injuries up until Monday night.
The civil defense has not released a final corpse count in northwest Syria as dead body recovery operations are still ongoing in several places in Idlib and Aleppo countryside.
In areas under the control of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), the Health Board has, so far, recorded six dead and 57 injured.
The corpse count is expected to rise significantly as hope fades in rescuing thousands of bodies still under the rubble nine days after the earthquake hit.