“In total, at the moment we have 1,541 losses, 9,733 wounded,” RIA Novosti quotes Oktay.

According to him, 3471 buildings were destroyed.

Earlier it was reported that the death toll after the earthquake in Turkey rose to 1498.

Director of the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Shebalin commented on the earthquake in Turkey in an interview with NSN.