“NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has begun moving containers stored at its Southern Operational Centre in Taranto, Italy to their port of embarkation for shipment to Türkiye,” NATO's Joint Force Command in Naples said on Twitter.

“This semi-permanent shelter is capable of housing at least 2,000 people displaced by the earthquakes in Türkiye, and consists of more than 1,000 shipping containers,” it added.

The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria in the early hours of the morning on February 6.

There were at least 35,418 deaths and more than 100,000 injured across the ten most affected provinces in Türkiye, including some casualties also in adjacent Elazığ and Batman provinces.

At least 13.5 million people and 4 million buildings have been affected. Thousands were trapped under rubble when buildings collapsed.

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change conducted damage inspections for 763,000 buildings; at least 41,791 buildings in 10 Turkish provinces were heavily damaged or destroyed, leaving about 150,000 people homeless. (ILKHA)