Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the death toll from the earthquake that struck at dawn today, Monday, in the south of the country has risen to 912, and 5,383 injured in Turkey alone.

Erdogan said during a press conference at the Disaster and Emergency Management Headquarters in Ankara that the earthquake caused great losses, and that the authorities had mobilized all means to overcome its effects.

He added that it is not possible to predict how high the number of deaths will rise given the continuation of search and rescue operations.

Hundreds of people were killed and thousands of others were injured in Turkey and Syria as a result of a strong earthquake that struck at dawn today, Monday, in southern Turkey, and the Turkish authorities raised the alert to the fourth level, which includes the request for international assistance.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went to the headquarters of the Turkish Emergency and Disaster Management Department to supervise the search and rescue operations, and Erdogan had said that all concerned units are on alert under the supervision of the Disaster and Emergency Management Department.

The Turkish president said that the government's priorities are rescue operations, and pointed out that there are 9,000 rescue teams working, stressing that 2,470 people were rescued from under the rubble left by the earthquake.

Erdogan indicated that the latest statistics indicate that the magnitude of the earthquake - whose epicenter was in the state of Kahramanmaraş - amounted to 7.7 degrees on the Richter scale.

Earlier today, Erdogan received briefings from the governors of 8 affected states, and he expressed, in tweets on Twitter, his wishes to overcome the earthquake disaster with minimal losses and as quickly as possible.

And Anatolia Agency reported that the Turkish president received a briefing at dawn on Monday from the governor of Gaziantep, Umar Farouk Coşkun, regarding the earthquake.

In addition to Kahramanmaraş, the epicenter of the earthquake, the earthquake struck the states of Gaziantep, Hatay, Adana, Malatya, Diyarbakir, Şanlıurfa and Osmaniye, and caused the collapse of hundreds of buildings and trapped many under rubble. It's cold because of the snow that fell the last few days.

In Syria, the earthquake struck the governorates of Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Latakia, and Tartous, and the Syrian Civil Defense located in the opposition areas in the northwest of the country said that at least 221 people had died, describing the situation as very difficult, stressing that the city of Aleppo was the most affected, and that they needed international assistance. .

In turn, the Syrian Ministry of Health announced that the number of earthquake victims had risen to 326 dead and 1,042 injured, while the Syrian Ministry of Defense said that it is mobilizing all its units and institutions in all governorates to provide urgent assistance to those affected, search for people trapped under the rubble, treat the injured, and remove traces of destruction.

The earthquake was also felt by residents in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, Georgia, Iraq and some areas in Egypt.

The Iraqi Seismological Authority said that aftershocks hit parts of the country, without recording any losses.