Teams were sent from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania to support first responders on the ground, said European Commissioner for crisis management Janesz Lenarcic in a joint statement with the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
Italy and Hungary have also offered their rescue teams to Turkey, according to the statement, which described the earthquake as “one of the strongest earthquakes in the region in more than 100 years”.
Reading the reports this morning, as bad as this is, I’m stunned it’s not worse.
That quake 100 years ago in Turkey killed over 30,000.