“A devastating earthquake shook Turkey and Syria this morning, claiming hundreds of lives... Our thoughts are with the people of Turkey and Syria.
The EU is ready to help,” he wrote on Twitter.
Turkey has declared the highest level of alarm due to earthquakes.
The Russian embassy in Ankara said that so far there is no information about the Russians affected by the devastating disaster.
As a result of the earthquake in Turkey, 284 people were killed, 2383 were injured.