“Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, will pay a visit to Türkiye on 27 February 2023 to show solidarity and convey condolences after the earthquakes in our country,” the ministry said.

Szijjarto will hold a meeting with Minister Çavuşoğlu in Ankara.

On February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Türkiye and northern and western Syria.

There were at least 44,218 deaths and 108,068 injured across the 10 most affected provinces in Turkey as well as some casualties and damage in Muş, Elazığ, Giresun, Mardin, Sivas, Kayseri, and Batman provinces.

At least 13.5 million people and 4 million buildings have been affected. About 345,000 apartments were devastated.[125] Thousands were trapped under rubble when buildings collapsed.

 Many people remained missing in collapsed buildings. (ILKHA)