“Currently, 9 thousand people are conducting search and rescue operations,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Erdogan specified that the number of rescuers is constantly increasing.

Erdogan also announced the death of 912 people as a result of the earthquake.

The airports of the Turkish cities of Kahramanmarash and Gaziantep stopped serving civilian flights after a natural disaster.

The port of Iskenderun in southeastern Turkey has been temporarily decommissioned due to damage following the earthquake.