Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admits 'shortcomings' with relief and rescue efforts.
The government has offered an initial $10 million in aid.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday conceded "shortcomings" after criticism of his government's response to the massive earthquake that has killed over 12,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
As criticism mounted online, Mr Erdogan visited one of the hardest-hit spots, quake epicentre Kahramanmaras, and acknowledged problems in the response. Many in the Turkish disaster zone had slept in their cars or in the streets under blankets, fearful of going back into buildings shaken by the 7.8 magnitude tremor - Turkey's deadliest since 1999 - and by a second powerful quake hours later.Australia aims to have a rescue team on the ground in Turkey by the end of the week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
“There's a terrible scale of the devastation, whole blocks levelled and buried. But the real devastation, of course, is for people.”, deliver medical assistance, and retrieve people still trapped beneath the rubble. “Those scenes and those names, whilst they're a far distance from our shores, should not be forgotten, and should not drift from our minds,” he said.The three reasons why the Turkey-Syria earthquake was so devastating
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