12 minutes agoBlinken expected to visit earthquake-affected areas in Turkey
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(3 years ago)US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel towards Turkey to discuss how Washington can further help Ankara as it faces the consequences of a devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. The senior American diplomat is expected to land Sunday at Incirlik Air Base in the southern province of [...]
The top American diplomat is expected to land on the Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana on Sunday, where he will tour the earthquake-hit area. He will then hold bilateral talks Monday with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Blinken is also expected to meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, TRT World reports. Since the earthquake, the United States has sent a rescue search team to Turkey, medical supplies, concrete break-up machinery and additional $85m in humanitarian aid that also covers Syria.
Two powerful earthquakes hit Turkey's southeastern Syria and neighbouring Syria on February 6th, killing more than 46,000 people and leaving more than one million homeless people together at an economic cost expected to total billions of dollars. /abcnews. al
