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SULAIMANI —
International Migration Organization (IOM) Director General Antonio Vitorino
and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi will pay a solidarity
visit to quake-hit Turkey.
According to a Turkish
Foreign Ministry statement on Thursday, Vitorino will visit Turkey on March
9-11 and is expected to meet Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in the
capital Ankara.
He will also visit the
region affected by last month’s earthquakes.
Separately, UN High
Commissioner for Refugees Grandi will be on a visit to Turkey on March 10-13.
"UN High
Commissioner for Refugees Grandi is expected to meet with Mevlut Cavusoglu,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Ankara and then visit the region affected by
the earthquakes," a statement added.
On Feb. 6, two
powerful earthquakes – magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 – struck southern Turkey.
The massive tremors,
centered in Kahramanmaras province, also shook 10 other provinces – Hatay,
Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakir, Kilis, Osmaniye, Sanliurfa,
and Elazig.
More than 46,100
people were killed in the earthquakes and some 13.5 million people have been
affected, with thousands of buildings destroyed.
(NRT Digital Media/AA)